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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
The minimum voltage that can be used for the logic is determined by factors such as the threshold voltage of the devices and the noise margin required to avoid a logic one and zero being ...
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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
This may be of interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_circuit
M. P. Frank, R. W. Brocato, B. D. Tierney, N. A. Missert, A. H. Hsia, Reversible Computing with Fast, Fully Static, Fully ...
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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
Assuming that you reduce frequency to a very small value, there is a minimum voltage below which the logic cells like NAND, NOR, etc will just not toggle or will take forever to toggle. This will be ...
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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
Suppose we wanted to design a cpu so as to reduce cpu energy-consumption-per-instruction-cycle as much as possible,
We do that already all the time: most processors are limited by their ability to ...
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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
MOSFETs at room temperature can change their channel resistance by one decade for every 60 mV of gate voltage - at best. This value of the subthreshold slope is called the "thermionic limit" ...
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Theoretically, how low voltage can we go to reduce power consumption in CPUs?
Which supply voltages the CPU can handle is already specified by its datasheet, but modern CPUs do not use that voltage internally. Instead they have a built-in step down regulator and run something ...
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Was the Intel 186 chip commonly used anywhere? Was it only found in industrial computers? Why not PCs?
I was an Intel App Engineer when the 186 came out, responsible for mostly embedded clients. I supported hundreds of designs. It was all embedded in my world, including medical devices, communications,...
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