Technologies for personal communications

Brodersen, R.W.; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.; Sheng, Samuel

doi:10.1109/vlsic.1991.760053

Cited by 31 publications

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“…The dramatic decrease in feature size and the corresponding increase in the number of devices on a chip, combined with the growing demand for portable communication and computing systems, has made power consumption a major concern in VLSI design [8,9]. Indeed, the Semiconductor Industry Association has identified low-power design techniques as a critical technological need [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

Technology decomposition for low-power synthesis

Panda

Najm

Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

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Technology decomposition for low-power synthesis

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Najm

Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

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“…The dramatic decrease in feature size and the corresponding increase in the number of devices on a chip, combined with the growing demand for portable communication and computing systems, have made power consumption one of the major concerns in VLSI circuits and systems design [Brodersen et al 1991]. Indeed, excessive power dissipation in integrated circuits not only discourages the use of the design in a portable environment, but also causes overheating, which can lead to soft errors or permanent damage.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimation of state line statistics in sequential circuits

Saxena

Najm

Hajj

2002

ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst.

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In this article, we present a simulation-based technique for estimation of signal statistics (switching activity and signal probability) at the flip-flop output nodes (state signals) of a general sequential circuit. Apart from providing an estimate of the power consumed by the flip-flops, this information is needed for calculating power in the combinational portion of the circuit. The statistics are computed by collecting samples obtained from fast RTL simulation of the circuit under input sequences that are either randomly generated or independently selected from user-specified pattern sets. An important advantage of this approach is that the desired accuracy can be specified up front by the user; with some approximation, the algorithm iterates until the specified accuracy is achieved. This approach has been implemented and tested on a number of sequential circuits and has been shown to handle very large sequential circuits that can not be handled by other existing methods, while using a reasonable amount of CPU time and memory (the circuit s38584.1, with 1426 flip-flops, can be analyzed in about 10 minutes).

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“…An overview of current thinking on how to reduce power dissipation in CMOS digital circuits can be found in [8] and [9]. The two papers together consider the effects of scaling feature sizes, selection of dynamic passgate family of circuits versus static circuits, parallelism,…”

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Circuit activity based logic synthesis for low power reliable operations

Roy

Prasad

1993

IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst.

117

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Circuit activity or the average number of transitions at a node is a measure of power dissipation in digital CMOS circuits. Circuit activity is also related to electromigration, and hot electron effects which can degrade reliability. In this paper, we address the problem of both finite state machine and combinational logic synthesis to minimize the average number of transitions at CMOS circuit nodes for battery-operated, low-power operations and increased reliability, while minimizing area at the same time. Logic can be optimally synthesized suited for different applications requiring different types of inputs. Results have been obtained for a wide range of MCNC benchmark examples.

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Technologies for personal communications

Cited by 31 publications

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Technology decomposition for low-power synthesis

Technology decomposition for low-power synthesis

Estimation of state line statistics in sequential circuits

Circuit activity based logic synthesis for low power reliable operations

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