In-situ Fmax/Vmin tracking for energy efficiency and reliability optimization

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In-situ Fmax/Vmin tracking for energy eﬀiciency and

reliability optimization

Ivan Miro-Panades, Edith Beigné, Olivier Billoint, Yvain Thonnart

To cite this version:

Ivan Miro-Panades, Edith Beigné, Olivier Billoint, Yvain Thonnart.

In-situ Fmax/Vmin

track-ing for energy eﬀiciency and reliability optimization. 23rd International Symposium on On-Line

Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), IEEE, Jul 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

pp.96-99,

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