Near Threshold Computing: From Single Core to Many-Core Energy Efficient Architectures

I would like to start by thanking Steve Reinhardt, who in his wisdom took a chance on me as in incoming graduate student. As my advisor for my first several years here his advice was invaluable. When Steve left the University, it was Trevor Mudge who adopted Steve’s students. I am thankful for the advice he gave me as I switched major research areas and began to focus on what would eventually become my thesis. His career and research advice were important to my development as a student and researcher. In addition I would like to thank Trevor for allowing me the opportunity to build my skill set by including me in countless research proposal writing sessions and allowing me a glimpse behind the curtain of being a faculty member. In addition, I was closely advised by several other faculty members throughout my long career at the University of Michigan. I would like to acknowledge the outside advice from Chaitali Chakrabarti at Arizona State University as well as Krisztian Flautner from ARM for their thoughtful advice. Within the University of Michigan I also received weekly ad-vice from intergroup meetings with David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Thomas Wenisch, and Scott Mahlke. It was these collaborative relationships that yielded such a broad dissertatio