Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design and CAD Tools

ISBN-13: 9780849395376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 440 str.

Christian Piguet

Opis

The power consumption of microprocessors is one of the most important challenges of high-performance chips and portable devices. In chapters drawn from Piguet's recently published Low-Power Electronics Design, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools addresses the design of low-power circuitry in deep submicron technologies. It provides a focused reference for specialists involved in designing low-power circuitry, from transistors to logic gates.
The book is organized into three broad sections for convenient access. The first examines the history of low-power electronics along with a look at emerging and possible future technologies. It also considers other technologies, such as nanotechnologies and optical chips, that may be useful in designing integrated circuits. The second part explains the techniques used to reduce power consumption at low levels. These include clock gating, leakage reduction, interconnecting and communication on chips, and adiabatic circuits. The final section discusses various CAD tools for designing low-power circuits. This section includes three chapters that demonstrate the tools and low-power design issues at three major companies that produce logic synthesizers.
Providing detailed examinations contributed by leading experts, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools supplies authoritative information on how to design and model for high performance with low power consumption in modern integrated circuits. It is a must-read for anyone designing modern computers or embedded systems.

Spis treści

TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICES: History of Low-Power Electronics. Evolution of Deep Submicron Bulk and SOI Technologies. Leakage in CMOS Nanometric Technologies. Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and the Future of Electronics. Advanced Research in On-Chip Optical Interconnects. LOW-POWER CIRCUITS: Modeling for Designing in Deep Submicron Technologies. Logic Circuits and Standard Cells. Low-Power Very Fast Dynamic Logic Circuits. Low-Power Arithmetic Operators. Circuit Techniques for Dynamic Power Reduction. VHDL for Low-Power. Clocking Multi-GHz Systems. Circuit Techniques for Leakage Reduction. Low-Power and Low-Voltage Communication for SoCs . Adiabatic and Clock-Powered Circuits. Weak Inversion for Ultimate Low-Power Logic . Robustness of Digital Circuits at Lower Voltages. CAD TOOLS FOR LOW-POWER: High Level Power Estimation and Analysis. Power Macro-Models for High-Level Power Estimation. Synopsys Low-Power Design Flow. Magma Low Power Flow. Sequence Design Flow for Low-Power Design.

O autorze

Christian Piguet