作者: P K Krause , I Polian
DOI: 10.1109/DATE.2011.5763153
关键词: Electronic engineering 、 Lossy compression 、 Process (computing) 、 Decoding methods 、 Energy consumption 、 Block (data storage) 、 Logic gate 、 Engineering 、 Voltage 、 Error detection and correction
摘要: We present an energy-reduction strategy for applications which are resilient, i. e. can tolerate occasional errors, based on adaptive voltage control. The is lowered, possibly beyond the safe-operation region, as long no errors observed, and raised again when severity of detected exceeds a threshold. Due to resilient nature applications, lightweight error detection logic sufficient operation, expensive recovery circuitry required. On hardware block implementing texture decompression, we observe 25% 30% energy reduction at negligible quality loss (compared introduced by lossy compression algorithm). investigate strategy's performance under temperature process variations different assumptions voltage-control circuitry. automatically chooses lowest appropriate voltage, thus largest reduction, each individual manufactured instance circuit.