| The paper, Power Gating with Multiple Sleep Modes, has been selected to receive a best paper award at the 2006 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design. The paper is authored by EECS alumn Kanak Agarwal (PhD EE '04), EECS doctoral student Harmander Deogun, Prof. Dennis Sylvester, and Kevin Nowka of IBM. The paper proposes the use of various degrees of sleep modes for integrated circuits to more appropriately reduce power consumption (and hence improve battery life of mobile products) based on the nature of applications that are being run. Current state-of-the-art ICs may employ just 1 sleep mode which does not allow its use very frequently and therefore limits achievable power savings. |