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

Title: Closing the Power Gap Between Asic & Custom : Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design
Author: David Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer
ISBN: 0387257632 / 9780387257631
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 384
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Year: 2007
Availability: Out of Stock

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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.