Practice Leakage Management (4.3.5) - Low Power Design Strategies and Techniques in Advanced Technologies

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Question 1.
What is power gating?
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Think about light switches in your home.
Question 2.
Define body biasing.
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How does it help manage performance?
3Question 3.
What is the primary benefit of power gating?
- Increases speed
- Reduces static power consumption
- Improves performance
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Think about why you'd want to turn off devices when not in use.
4Question 4.
True or False: Multi-Vt design can reduce both performance and leakage.
- True
- False
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What do we know about the relationship between performance and leakage?
Question 5.
Design a circuit with power gating considering wake-up latency and performance. Discuss potential applications.
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What parts of the circuit can be inactive and when?
Question 6.
Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of using multi-Vt design in a high-performance computing device.
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Does higher performance justify the potential costs?

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