IEEE Recommended Practice for Developing Energy-Efficient Power-Proportional Digital Architectures

A set of guidelines is presented in this recommended practice for the development of energy-efficient and power-proportional digital architectures so that energy is only consumed when computations are under way and energy is reduced in the non-operating state. The purpose of this practice is to provide guidelines for the designers and developers of digital architectures for creating power-proportionality at different levels of the system.