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1995
ACM
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Guarded evaluation: pushing power management to logic synthesis/design
The need to reduce the power consumption of the next generation of digital systems is clearly recognized. At the system level, power management is a very powerful technique and de...
Vivek Tiwari, Sharad Malik, Pranav Ashar
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1995
ACM
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Power and area optimization by reorganizing CMOS complex gate circuits
Thispaper proposes a method for achieving low-power control-logic modules using a combination of CMOS complex gate reorganization, transistor size optimization, and transistor lay...
M. Tachibana, S. Kurosawa, R. Nojima, Norman Kojim...
ISLPED
1995
ACM
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Logic design for low-voltage/low-power CMOS circuits
Christian Piguet, Jean-Marc Masgonty, V. von Kaene...
ISLPED
1995
ACM
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CMOS dynamic power estimation based on collapsible current source transistor modeling
When estimating the dynamic power dissipated by a circuit di erent methods ranging from numeric analog simulation to event-driven logic simulation have been proposed. However, as ...
Abelardo Pardo, R. Iris Bahar, Srilatha Manne, Pet...
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1995
ACM
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A multiple clocking scheme for low power RTL design
This paper presents an e ective multiple clocking scheme for lower power RTL circuit design. The basis is to partition a behavioral description of the circuit into m modules fed b...
Christos A. Papachristou, Mark Spining, Mehrdad No...
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1995
ACM
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Reducing the frequency of tag compares for low power I-cache design
In current processors, the cache controller, which contains the cache directory and other logic such as tag comparators, is active for each instruction fetch and is responsible fo...
Ramesh Panwar, David A. Rennels
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1995
ACM
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Towards a high-level power estimation capability
We will present a power estimation technique for digital integrated circuits that operates at the register transfer level RTL. Such a high-level power estimation capability is r...
Farid N. Najm
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1995
ACM
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Information theoretic measures of energy consumption at register transfer level
- The problem of estimating the energy consumption at register transfer level is addressed from an information theoretical point of view. It is shown that the average switching act...
Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu, Massoud Pedram
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1995
ACM
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Ultra-low-power analog associative memory core using flash-EEPROM-based programmable capacitors
Analog techniques can lead to ultra-efficient computational systems when applied to the right applications. The problem of associative memory is well suited to array-based analog ...
Alan Kramer, Roberto Canegallo, Mauro Chinosi, D. ...
ISLPED
1995
ACM
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Activity-sensitive architectural power analysis for the control path
Prompted by demands for portability and low-cost packaging, the electronics industry has begun to view power consumption as a critical design criteria. As such there is a growing ...
Paul E. Landman, Jan M. Rabaey