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Delivering high quality power to support power efficient systems is a fundamental requirement of all ICs. While the quality of the power supply can be efficiently addressed with a point-of-load power delivery system [187, 191, 475–477], the complexity of a dynamically controllable distributed POL power supply system is a significant design issue. Hundreds of on-chip power regulators need to be co-designed with billions of nonlinear current loads within a power domain, imposing a critical stability challenge on distributed power delivery systems. To cope with the design complexity of complex analog systems, modeling, optimization, and synthesis techniques are typically used [478]. To automate the design of a power delivery system, accurate methods to evaluate performance metrics (e.g., quality of transient response, stability, and power) are required.
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P.-Vaisband, I., Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A.V., Köse, S., Friedman, E.G. (2016). Stability in Distributed Power Delivery Systems. In: On-Chip Power Delivery and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29395-0_24
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