@conference {zou2017ivory,
	title = {Ivory: Early-stage design space exploration tool for integrated voltage regulators},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1{\textendash}6},
	address = {Austin, TX},
	abstract = {Despite being employed in burgeoning efforts to improve power delivery efficiency, integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) have yet to be evaluated in a rigorous, systematic, or quantitative manner. To fulfill this need, we present Ivory, a high-level design space exploration tool capable of providing accurate conversion efficiency, static performance characteristics, and dynamic transient responses of an IVR-enabled power delivery subsystem (PDS), enabling rapid trade-off exploration at early design stage, approximately 1000{\texttimes} 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 configurations, with underlying power break-downs and area overheads for the GPU manycore architecture, which has yet to embrace IVRs.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3062268},
	author = {Zou, An and Leng, Jingwen and Zu, Yazhou and Tao Tong and Vijay Reddi and David Brooks and Gu  Wei and Xuan Zhang}
}
