Title :
Comparison between power gating and DVFS from the viewpoint of energy efficiency
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
To increase the energy efficiency of modern LSIs, supply voltage control techniques (power gating and dynamic voltage frequency scaling) have been widely used and the energy efficiency of fine grain temporal controls in both cases have been discussed. In this paper, we applied dead time constraint, compared the energy efficiencies and formulated the boundary condition that power gating is more energy efficient than DVFS. The formulation is applied to discuss the future trend of energy efficiency using ITRS roadmap and it was found that DVFS would be still effective with high-performance technology, however, it will not be effective with low-operating-power technology.
Keywords :
energy conservation; large scale integration; low-power electronics; voltage control; DVFS; ITRS roadmap; LSIs; boundary condition formulation; dead time constraint application; dynamic voltage frequency scaling; energy efficiency; fine grain temporal control; high-performance technology; low-operating-power technology; power gating; supply voltage control technique; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Energy loss; Logic gates; Power supplies; Transistors; Voltage control; DIBL; DVFS; Energy gain; ITRS; Power gating;
Conference_Titel :
Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2012 13th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1034-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISQED.2012.6187555
