ReVolt: Power Delivery Network-Aware Voltage Droop Control for 2.5D PIM Chiplet Architectures

By Vibhanshu Sharma ¹, Alish Kanani ², Miao Sun ¹, Janardhan Rao Doppa ¹, Umit Y. Ogras ², Partha Pratim Pande ^1
1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
² Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Abstract

Processing-in-memory (PIM)-based 2.5D multi-chiplet platforms are enablers for machine learning (ML) workloads. However, their performance is affected by the power delivery network (PDN), where varying chiplet-level current demand induces spatially and temporally varying voltage droop. These droop events lead to voltage violations, degrades system performance, and impact inference accuracy for ML workloads. In this work, we propose ReVolt, a dynamic operation unit (OU)-based framework for mitigating voltage droop in PIM-based multi-chiplet systems. ReVolt leverages an LSTM-based PDN surrogate to predict per-chiplet supply voltage trajectories at runtime, enabling proactive adjustment of OU size to mitigate droop events. By treating OU size as a control knob, ReVolt regulates chiplet-level current demand while maintaining computational accuracy. This approach prevents voltage droop violations and improves energy-delay product (EDP) while preserving ML model inference accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that ReVolt prevents voltage droop violations while achieving an average 76x reduction in EDP compared to existing fixed and dynamic OU-based baselines, without compromising inference accuracy of ML models.

Index Terms — Power delivery network, Voltage droop, Operation unit (OU), Processing-in-memory (PIM), Multi-chiplet systems

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