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Low Power Graphics Processors

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So far we studied power optimizations at various levels of design abstraction such as the circuit level, architectural level, all the way up to the server and data center level. In this chapter, we present a case study that combines several of the aforementioned techniques in a reasonably complex system: a power efficient Graphics Processor.

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  1. Department Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, 110016, New Delhi, India

    Dr. Preeti Ranjan Panda, B. V. N. Silpa & Krishnaiah Gummidipudi

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, 699 South Mill Avenue, 85281, Tempe, USA

    Aviral Shrivastava

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Panda, P.R., Shrivastava, A., Silpa, B.V.N., Gummidipudi, K. (2010). Low Power Graphics Processors. In: Power-efficient System Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6388-8_7

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