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The capability of silicon technology has increased and cost of doing computation has decreased to the point where vastly expanded personal computational facilities become available to a large class of users. In this environment the energy cost of computation becomes a critical issue, especially for portable applications, but even in desktop, household and office environments. The capability of the upcoming technologies to deliver performance for some future yielded chip will vastly exceed the power budget allotted to the application desirous of using that performance. The concept of “excess capacity” is introduced to describe this situation and this excess capacity may be traded for power in different ways to realize different system solutions. This paper will discuss the nature of the different kinds of trade-offs, and the classes of system solutions realized.
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Solomon, P.M. (1996). Critique of Reversible Computation and other Energy Saving Techniques in Future Computational Systems. In: Luryi, S., Xu, J., Zaslavsky, A. (eds) Future Trends in Microelectronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 323. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1746-0_9
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