With 90nm CMOS in production and 65nm testing in progress, power has been pushed to the forefront of design metrics. This paper will outline practical techniques that are used to ...
A low power wireless intercom system is designed and implemented. Two fully-operational ASICs, integrating custom and commercial IP, implement the entire digital portion of the pr...
M. Josie Ammer, Michael Sheets, Tufan C. Karalar, ...
This paper presents a novel repeater insertion algorithm for the power minimization of realistic interconnect trees under given timing budgets. Our algorithm judiciously combines ...
Development of the process technology for dual threshold (dual Vth ) CMOS circuit has opened up the possibility of using it to reduce static power in low voltage high performance ...
Nikhil Tripathi, Amit M. Bhosle, Debasis Samanta, ...
Minimizing power consumption is one of the most important objectives in IC design. Resizing gates and assigning different Vt’s are common ways to meet power and timing budgets. ...