@inproceedings{a46bdd8c857c409da3417b875eca4aae,
title = "Computation as estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC design improves robustness and reduces power consumption",
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.",
keywords = "Estimation-theoretic computation, Low-power IC design, Robust gigascale systems, Sensor networks-on-chip",
author = "Sriram Narayanan and Varatkar, {Girish V.} and Jones, {Douglas L.} and Shanbhag, {Naresh R.}",
year = "2008",
month = sep,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517886",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1424414849",
series = "ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
pages = "1421--1424",
booktitle = "2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP",
note = "2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP ; Conference date: 31-03-2008 Through 04-04-2008",
}