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.
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