Design methodology to trade off power, output quality and error resiliency: Application to color interpolation filtering

Georgios Karakonstantis, Nilanjan Banerjee, Kaushik Roy, Chaitali Chakrabarti

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Abstract

Power dissipation and tolerance to process variations pose conflicting design requirements. Scaling of voltage is associated with larger variations, while Vdd upscaling or transistor up-sizing for process tolerance can be detrimental for power dissipation. However, for certain signal processing systems such as those used in color image processing, we noted that effective trade-offs can be achieved between Vdd scaling, process tolerance and "output quality". In this paper we demonstrate how these tradeoffs can be effectively utilized in the development of novel low-power variation tolerant architectures for color interpolation. The proposed architecture supports a graceful degradation in the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) under aggressive voltage scaling as well as extreme process variations in sub-70nm technologies. This is achieved by exploiting the fact that some computations are more important and contribute more to the PSNR improvement compared to the others. The computations are mapped to the hardware in such a way that only the less important computations are affected by Vdd-scaling and process variations. Simulation results show that even at a scaled voltage of 60% of nominal Vdd value, our design provides reasonable image PSNR with 69% power savings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2007 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD
Pages199-204
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Nov 4 2007Nov 8 2007

Publication series

NameIEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD
ISSN (Print)1092-3152

Other

Other2007 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period11/4/0711/8/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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