A 0.9V to 1.95V dynamic voltage-scalable and frequency-scalable 32b powerPC processor

Kevin Nowka, Gary D. Carpenter, E. Mac Donald, Hùng Ngô, Bishop Brock, Keiji Ishii, Tuyet Nguyen, J.L. Burns

2002 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. No.02CH37315) · 2005 · 21 citations · 1 references

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Abstract

A 32 b PowerPC/spl trade/ system-on-a-chip supporting dynamic voltage supply and dynamic frequency scaling operates from 366 MHz at 1.8 V and 600 mW down to 150 MHz at 1.0 V and 53 mW in a 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS process. Maximum supply change without PLL relock is 10 mV//spl mu/s. Processor state save/restore enables a deep-sleep state.

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