Closing the Power Gap Between Asic & Custom : Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design

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 the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages
• Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages
• Verification for multiple voltage domains
• Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages
• Power gating design automation to reduce leakage
• Relationships among statistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization

Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.