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An Error-Resilient RISC-V Microprocessor With a Fully Integrated DC–DC Voltage Regulator for Near-Threshold Operation in 28-nm CMOS
- Source :
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; November 2023, Vol. 58 Issue: 11 p3275-3285, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article presents an energy-efficient microprocessor design that fully integrates an error-resilient RISC-V core and an embedded dc–dc switched-capacitor voltage regulator (SCVR). The proposed design achieves high energy efficiency, high computation performance, and a small system footprint through several innovations. First, in situ error detection and correction (EDAC) flip-flops (FFs) and an error-resilient static random access memory (SRAM) interfacing technique enable error resilience on the microprocessor without any post-silicon calibration requirement. Next, a fully integrated SCVR featuring a multi-rate successive approximation (MRSA) algorithm and a dynamic conduction loss minimization technique is proposed to achieve high conversion efficiency, high-power density, and fast load regulation. A prototype chip that fully integrates the techniques described above was fabricated in the 28-nm standard CMOS technology with an active area of 0.42 mm2. The measurement results show that the proposed in situ EDAC effectively minimizes the timing margin without any post-silicon calibration to achieve a high-processor performance of 43 MHz with an energy-delay-product (EDP) of 0.57 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text {pJ}\cdot \mu \text{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, showing the state-of-the-art performance and energy efficiency in the standard CMOS technology.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189200 and 1558173X
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs64344949
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2023.3287360