Low Power Digital CMOS Design

Chandrakasan, Anantha P.; Brodersen, Robert W.

ISBN 10: 079239576X / ISBN 13: 9780792395768

Editore: Springer, 1995

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• Titolo: Low Power Digital CMOS Design
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 079239576X
• ISBN 13: 9780792395768
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

Power consumption has become a major design consideration for battery-operated, portable systems as well as high-performance, desktop systems. Strict limitations on power dissipation must be met by the designer while still meeting ever higher computational requirements. A comprehensive approach is thus required at all levels of system design, ranging from algorithms and architectures to the logic styles and the underlying technology.
Potentially one of the most important techniques involves combining architecture optimization with voltage scaling, allowing a trade-off between silicon area and low-power operation. Architectural optimization enables supply voltages of the order of 1 V using standard CMOS technology. Several techniques can also be used to minimize the switched capacitance, including representation, optimizing signal correlations, minimizing spurious transitions, optimizing sequencing of operations, activity-driven power down, etc. The high- efficiency of DC-DC converter circuitry required for efficient, low-voltage and low-current level operation is described by Stratakos, Sullivan and Sanders. The application of various low-power techniques to a chip set for multimedia applications shows that orders-of-magnitude reduction in power consumption is possible.
The book also features an analysis by Professor Meindl of the fundamental limits of power consumption achievable at all levels of the design hierarchy. Svensson, of ISI, describes emerging adiabatic switching techniques that can break the CV²f barrier and reduce the energy per computation at a fixed voltage. Srivastava, of AT&T, presents the application of aggressive shut-down techniques to microprocessor applications.

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1. Introduction. 2. Hierarchy of Limits of Power; J.D. Meindl. 3. Sources of Power Consumption. 4. Voltage Scaling Approaches. 5. DC Power Supply Design in Portable Systems; coauthored with A.J. Stratakos, et al. 6. Adiabatic Switching; L. Svensson. 7. Minimizing Switched Capacitance. 8. Computer Aided Design Tools. 9. A Portable Multimedia Terminal. 10. Low Power Programmable Computation; coauthored with M.B. Srivastava. 11. Conclusions. Subject Index.