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Carlos Tadeo Ortega Otero, Jonathan Tse, and Rajit Manohar
Power gating techniques are effective in mitigating leakage
losses, which represent a significant portion of power consumption in
nanoscale circuits. We examine variants of two representative techniques,
Cut-Off and Zig-Zag Cut-Off, and find that they offer
an average of 80% and 20% in power savings, respectively, for asynchronous circuit families.
We also present a new zero-delay (ZDRTO) wakeup technique for power
gated asynchronous pipelines, which leverages the robustness of
asynchronous circuits to delays and supply voltage variations.
Our ZDRTO technique offers a tradeoff between wakeup time and static power reduction,
making it suitable for power gating pipelines with
low-duty cycle, bursty usage patterns.
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