A CMOS Thermal Sensor and Its Applications in Temperature Adaptive Design

With transistor feature size scaling and higher integration density, power density has become a major problem. High power density results in elevated on chip temperature, which has significant impacts on power consumption and circuit reliability. In this work, we have presented a temperature adaptiv...

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Published in7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'06) pp. 243 - 248
Main Authors Chen, Qikai, Meterelliyoz, Mesut, Roy, Kaushik
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 27.03.2006
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Circuits
CMOS technology
Energy consumption
Hardware > Electronic design automation > Logic synthesis > Circuit optimization
Hardware > Hardware test
Hardware > Hardware validation
Hardware > Robustness
Leakage current
Microprocessors
MOSFETs
Temperature dependence
Temperature sensors
Thermal sensors
Tunneling
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Summary:With transistor feature size scaling and higher integration density, power density has become a major problem. High power density results in elevated on chip temperature, which has significant impacts on power consumption and circuit reliability. In this work, we have presented a temperature adaptive design technique using a novel low overhead CMOS temperature sensor. We have shown that, by online monitoring of temperature, circuit power consumption can be adjusted adaptively so as to stabilize the chip temperature and achieve a robust design.
ISBN:9780769525235
0769525237
ISSN:1948-3287
1948-3295
DOI:10.1109/ISQED.2006.6