1st Edition

Low-Power Electronics Design

Edited By Christian Piguet Copyright 2004
    894 Pages 551 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The power consumption of integrated circuits is one of the most problematic considerations affecting the design of high-performance chips and portable devices. The study of power-saving design methodologies now must also include subjects such as systems on chips, embedded software, and the future of microelectronics. Low-Power Electronics Design covers all major aspects of low-power design of ICs in deep submicron technologies and addresses emerging topics related to future design.

    This volume explores, in individual chapters written by expert authors, the many low-power techniques born during the past decade. It also discusses the many different domains and disciplines that impact power consumption, including processors, complex circuits, software, CAD tools, and energy sources and management.

    The authors delve into what many specialists predict about the future by presenting techniques that are promising but are not yet reality. They investigate nanotechnologies, optical circuits, ad hoc networks, e-textiles, as well as human powered sources of energy. Low-Power Electronics Design delivers a complete picture of today's methods for reducing power, and also illustrates the advances in chip design that may be commonplace 10 or 15 years from now.

    TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICES
    History of Low-Power Electronics
    Christian Piguet

    Evolution of Deep Submicron Bulk and SOI Technologies
    Marc Belleville and Olivier Faynot

    Leakage in CMOS Nanometric Technologies
    Antoni Ferré and Joan Figueras

    Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, and the Future of Electronics
    Jing Wang and Mark Lundstrom

    Advanced Research in On-Chip Optical Interconnects
    Ian O'Connor and Frédéric Gaffiot

    LOW-POWER CIRCUITS
    Modeling for Designing in Deep Sub-Micron Technologies
    Daniel Auvergne, Philippe Maurine, and Nadine Azémard

    Logic Circuits and Standard Cells
    Christian Piguet

    Low-Power Very Fast Dynamic Logic Circuits
    Jiren Yuan

    Low-Power Arithmetic Operators
    Arnaud Tisserand

    Circuits Techniques for Dynamic Power Reduction
    Dimitrios Soudris

    VHDL for Low Power
    Amara Amara and Philippe Royannez

    Clocking Multi-GHz Systems
    Vojin G. Oklobdzija

    Circuit Techniques for Leakage Reduction
    Kaushik Roy, Amit Agarwal, and Chris H. Kim

    Low-Power and Low-Voltage Communication for SoCs
    Christer Svensson

    Adiabatic and Clock-Powered Circuits
    Lars Svensson

    Weak Inversion for Ultimate Low-Power Logic
    Eric A. Vittoz

    Robustness of Digital Circuits at Lower Voltages
    Harry Veendrick

    LOW-POWER PROCESSORS AND MEMORIES
    Techniques for Power and Process Variation Minimization
    Lawrence T. Clark and Vivek De

    Low-Power DSPs
    Ingrid Verbauwhede

    Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Processors
    Raphaël David, Sébastien Pillement, and Olivier Sentieys

    Macgic, a Low-Power Reconfigurable DSP
    Flavio Rampogna, Pierre-David Pfister, Claude Arm, Patrick Volet,
    Jean-Marc Masgonty, and Christian Piguet

    Low-Power Asynchronous Processors
    Kamel Slimani, Joao Fragoso, Mohammed Es Sahliene, Laurent Fesquet,
    and Marc Renaudin

    Low-Power Baseband Processors for Communications
    Dake Liu and Eric Tell

    StandBy Power Reduction for SRAM Memories
    Stefan Cserveny, Jean-Marc Masgonty, and Christian Piguet

    Low-Power Cache Design
    Vasily G. Moshnyaga and Koji Inoue

    Memory Organization for Low-Energy Embedded Systems
    Alberto Macii

    LOW-POWER SYSTEMS ON CHIPS
    Power Performance Trade-Offs in Design of SoCs
    Victor Zyuban and Philip Strenski

    Low-Power SoC with Power-Aware Operating Systems Generation
    Sungjoo Yoo, Aimen Bouchhima, Wander Cesario, Ahmed A. Jerraya,
    and Lovic Gauthier


    Low-Power Data Storage and Communication for SoC
    Miguel Miranda, Erik Brockmeyer, Tycho van Meeuwen, Cedric Ghez,
    and Francky Catthoor

    Networks on Chips: Energy-Efficient Design of SoC Interconnect
    Luca Benini, Terry Tao Ye, and Giovanni De Micheli

    Highly Integrated Ultra-Low Power RF Transceivers for Wireless Sensor
    Networks
    B.P. Otis, Y.H. Chee, R. Lu, N.M. Pletcher, J.M. Rabaey, and S. Gambini

    Power-Aware On-Demand Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    Morteza Maleki and Massoud Pedram

    Modeling Computational, Sensing, and Actuation Surfaces
    Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu, and Pradeep K. Khosla

    EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
    Low-Power Software Techniques
    Catherine H. Gebotys

    Low-Power/Energy Compiler Optimizations
    Ulrich Kremer

    Design of Low-Power Processor Cores Using a Retargetable Tool Flow
    Gert Goossens, Dirk Lanneer, and Peter Dytrych

    Recent Advances in Low-Power Design and Functional Coverification
    Automation from the Earliest System-Level Design Stages
    Thierry J.-F. Omnès, Youcef Bouchebaba, Chidamber Kulkarni, and Fabien Coelho

    High-Level Power Estimation and Analysis
    Wolfgang Nebel and Domenik Helms

    Power Macro-Models for High-Level Power Estimation
    Enrico Macii and Massimo Poncino

    Synopsys Low-Power Design Flow
    Renu Mehra and Barry Pangrle

    Magma Low-Power Flow
    Ed Huijbregts, Lars Kruse, and Eric Seelen

    Sequence Design Flow for Power-Sensitive Design
    Jerry Frenkil

    Battery Cells, Sources of Energy, and Chip Cooling
    Battery Lifetime Optimization for Energy-Aware Circuits
    Davide Bertozzi and Luca Benini

    Miniature Fuel Cells for Portable Applications
    Didier Bloch

    Human-Generated Power for Mobile Electronics
    Thad Starner

    Chip Cooling: Why - How
    Yervant Zorian and Dimitris Gizopoulos

    Biography

    Christian Piguet