On the Efficiency of Early Bird Sampling (EBS) an Error Detection-Correction Scheme for Data-Driven Voltage Over-Scaling

An efficient implementation of voltage over-scaling policies for ultra-low power ICs passes through the design of on-chip Error Detection and Correction (EDC) mechanisms that can provide continuous feedback about the health of the circuit. The key components of a EDC architecture are embedded timing sensors that check the compliance of timing constraints at run-time and drives the computation to safely evolve toward the minimum energy point.