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Sriram Narayanan, Girish V. Varatkar, Douglas L. Jones, Naresh Shanbhag. "Computation as Estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC Design Improves Robustness and Reduces Power Consumption". Proceedings of ICASSP, IEEE, April, 2008.

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.

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  Sriram Narayanan, Girish V. Varatkar, Douglas L. Jones,
  Naresh Shanbhag. <a
  href="http://www.gigascale.org/pubs/1168.html">Computation
  as Estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC Design Improves
  Robustness and Reduces Power Consumption</a>,
  Proceedings of ICASSP, IEEE, April, 2008.

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  Sriram Narayanan, Girish V. Varatkar, Douglas L. Jones,
  Naresh Shanbhag. "Computation as Estimation:
  Estimation-theoretic IC Design Improves Robustness and
  Reduces Power Consumption". Proceedings of ICASSP, IEEE,
  April, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{NarayananVaratkarJonesShanbhag2008,
      author = {Sriram Narayanan and Girish V. Varatkar and
                Douglas L. Jones and Naresh Shanbhag},
      title = {Computation as Estimation: Estimation-theoretic IC
                Design Improves Robustness and Reduces Power
                Consumption},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of ICASSP},
      organization = {IEEE},
      month = {April},
      year = {2008},
      URL = {http://www.gigascale.org/pubs/1168.html}
  }
  

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