Efficient Design of Variation-Resilient Ultra-Low Energy Digital Processors

Chapter 1. Energy-Efficient Processors: Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 2. Near-Threshold Operation: Technology, Building Blocks and Architecture.- Chapter 3. Efficient VLSI Design Flow.- Chapter 4. Ultra-Low Voltage Microcontrollers.- Chapter 5. Error Detection and Correction.- Chapter 6. Timing Error-Aware Microcontroller.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Hans Reyserhove was born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1989. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees cum laude in engineering science, electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2010 and 2012. The topic of his master thesis was "A pixel level ADC for extreme parallelism, high frame rate and high dynamic range image sensors". In 2011, he interned at the NCTU Si2Lab, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is currently working as a research assistant at the ESAT- MICAS laboratories of the KU Leuven towards a Ph.D. degree in the field of near-threshold digital circuit design with a focus on automating design flows, standard cell design, microprocessors and better-than-worst-case design techniques. The promoter of his Ph.D. is Prof. Dr. Ir. Wim Dehaene. His main research interests are local and energy-efficient compute, low voltage operation, microprocessors and better-than-worst-case design techniques.



Wim Dehaene was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1967. He received the M. Sc. degree in electrical and mechanical en- gineering in 1991 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In November 1996 he received the Ph. D degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His thesis is entitled CMOS integrated circuits for analog signal processing in hard disk systems. After receiving the M. Sc. Degree Wim Dehaene was a research assistant at the ESAT-MICAS Laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research involved the design of novel CMOS building blocks for hard disk systems. The research was first sponsored by the IWONL (Belgian Institute for Science and Research in Industry and agriculture) and later by the IWT (the Flemish institute for Scientific Research in the Industry). In November 1996 Wim Dehaene joined Alcatel Microelectronics, Belgium. There he was a senior project leader for the feasibility, design and development of mixed mode Systems on Chip. The application domains were telephony, xDSL and high speed