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rather than being a fringe issue in isolated papers. On the other hand, it is rare for power to
be the sole focus, and we feel this is rightly so. Rather, power is viewed holistically as part of
a family of design goals, along with performance, reliability, design verifiability, and others.
Architects of the future will need to maintain this balanced and holistic view across the entire
design space. Without this holistic approach, architects are wasting the leverage offered to us
by being high-level guides for design trends, and by being the “translators” at the hardware
software interface.
