Better-than-worst-case design: Progress and opportunities

Jason Cong, Henry Duwe, Rakesh Kumar, Sen Li

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Abstract

Today, designers are forced to reduce performance and increase power requirements in order to reserve larger margins that are required due to the greater variability introduced by smaller feature sizes and manufacturing variations of modern IC designs. The better-than-worst-case design can both address the variability problem and achieve higher performance/energy efficiency than the worst-case design. This paper surveys the progress to date, provides a snapshot of the most representative methods in this field, and discusses the future research directions of the better-than-worst-case design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)656-663
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Computer Science and Technology
Volume29
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014

Keywords

  • better-than-worst-case
  • error resilience
  • variability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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