Title :
A 96.5% energy-reduced lookup engine with an unused-rules-exception scheme for greening networks
Author :
Miura, Naruhisa ; Honda, Ryotaro ; Shigematsu, Satoshi ; Tanaka, Nobuyuki ; Hatta, Saki ; Nakanishi, Masaki ; Matsuda, Yuuki ; Urano, Masami
Author_Institution :
NTT Microsyst. Integration Labs., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents a new search scheme that reduces the energy dissipation of a lookup engine by reducing the number of rules to compare. The lookup engine with the proposed scheme fabricated in 40-nm CMOS reduces the energy dissipation by 96.5% including only 0.5% overhead.
Keywords :
CMOS memory circuits; energy conservation; low-power electronics; CMOS; MMDC; energy dissipation reduction; energy-reduced lookup engine; greening networks; multiple-mismatch-detection circuit; search scheme; size 40 nm; unused-rules-exception scheme; Energy dissipation; Engines; Frequency modulation; Green products; Layout; Registers; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), 2013 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5531-5