Transient power management through high level synthesis
Vijay Raghunathan, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Ganesh Lakshminarayana · 2001
The use of nanometer technologies is making it increasingly important to consider transient characteristics of a circuit's power dissipation (e.g., peak power, and power gradient or differential) in addition to its average power consumption. Current transient power analysis and reduction approaches are mostly at the transistor- and logie-levels. We argue that, as was the case with average power minimization, architectural solutions to transient power problems can complement and significantly extend the scope of lower-level techniques.