Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption

Sriram Narayanan; Girish V. Varatkar; Douglas L. Jones; Naresh R. Shanbhag

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886

Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption

Sriram Narayanan, Girish V. Varatkar, Douglas L. Jones, Naresh R. Shanbhag

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Abstract

Modern Integrated Circuits (ICs) are designed as massively parallel systems as a consequence of diminishing silicon feature sizes. This has adversely impacted reliability because of increased errors due to process and environmental variations, and particle hits. Viewing hardware errors as analogous to measurement or system noise allows us to borrow results from estimation theory and extend Moore's law. The estimation-theoretic framework provides a design optimization formalization that enables power/reliability trade-off in broad classes of applications. Two applications described here show that specific instantiations of the framework yield significant power savings and system reliability.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Pages	1421-1424
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886
State	Published - Sep 16 2008
Event	2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Mar 31 2008 → Apr 4 2008

Publication series

Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

Other

Other	2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Country	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	3/31/08 → 4/4/08

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Keywords

Estimation-theoretic computation
Low-power IC design
Robust gigascale systems
Sensor networks-on-chip

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Narayanan, S., Varatkar, G. V., Jones, D. L., & Shanbhag, N. R. (2008). Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption. In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP (pp. 1421-1424). [4517886] (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886

Computation as estimation : Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption. / Narayanan, Sriram; Varatkar, Girish V.; Jones, Douglas L.; Shanbhag, Naresh R.

2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP. 2008. p. 1421-1424 4517886 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Narayanan, S, Varatkar, GV, Jones, DL & Shanbhag, NR 2008, Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption. in 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP., 4517886, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 1421-1424, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 3/31/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886

Narayanan S, Varatkar GV, Jones DL , Shanbhag NR. Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption. In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP. 2008. p. 1421-1424. 4517886. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886

Narayanan, Sriram ; Varatkar, Girish V. ; Jones, Douglas L. ; Shanbhag, Naresh R. / Computation as estimation : Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP. 2008. pp. 1421-1424 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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