Live Demonstration: Body-Bias Based Performance Monitoring and Compensation for a Near-Threshold Multi-Core Cluster in 28nm FD-SOI Technology

Energy efficiency is a crucial aspect in modern SoCs. Common strategies like aggressive voltage scaling and parallel processing have enabled major improvements in active energy efficiency. However, the big impact of process variations, as well as the temperature sensitivity of devices operating in near threshold force digital designers to adopt very conservative margins for timing closure.