Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design /

• Main Authors: Chinnery, David (Author), Keutzer, Kurt (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer hardware.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Computer Hardware.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Electrical Engineering.

This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology. Important topics include: - Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation - Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining - Analysis of...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of the Factors Affecting the Power Consumption
• Pipelining to Reduce the Power
• Voltage Scaling
• Methodology to Optimize Energy of Computation for SOCs
• Linear Programming for Gate Sizing
• Linear Programming for Multi-Vth and Multi-Vdd Assignment
• Power Optimization using Multiple Supply Voltages
• Placement for Power Optimization
• Power Gating Design Automation
• Verification For Multiple Supply Voltage Designs
• Winning the Power Struggle in an Uncertain Era
• Pushing ASIC Performance in a Power Envelope
• Low Power ARM 1136JF-S Design.