Auto-adaptive Digital Circuits – Application to Low-power Multicores and Ultra-low-power Wireless Sensor Nodes

Today’s sources of variations are affecting a lot circuits’ energy efficiency: this talk will bring innovative technological, circuit and architectural techniques for efficient automatic performance regulation. Given the numerous sources of variations encountered by today’s integrated systems, it becomes very challenging to implement highly energy-efficient circuits. Whether the variations are in the process, in the application needs or in the environmental characteristics, the common solution is an adaptation. This talk is exploring automatic adaptation techniques at architectural applied to MPSoCs as well as autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes.