@conference {zou2017ivory,
	title = {Ivory: Early-Stage Design Space Exploration Tool for Integrated Voltage Regulators},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC)},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	abstract = {Despite being employed in burgeoning eforts to improve power delivery eiciency, integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) have yet to be evaluated in a rigorous, systematic, or quantitative manner. To fulill this need, we present Ivory, a high-level design space exploration tool capable of providing accurate conversion eiciency, static performance characteristics, and dynamic transient responses of an IVR-enabled power delivery subsystem (PDS), enabling rapid trade-of exploration at early design stage, approximately 1000x faster than SPICE simulation. We demonstrate and validate Ivory with a wide spectrum of IVR topologies. In addition, we present a case study using Ivory to reveal the optimal PDS conigurations, with underlying power break-downs and area overheads for the GPU manycore architecture, which has yet to embrace IVRs.\&nbsp;},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3062268},
	author = {Zou, An and Leng, Jingwen and Zu, Yazhou and Tao Tong and Reddi, Vijay Janapa and David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei and Zhang, Xuan}
}
