In the last few weeks i have been quite busy with a lot of research on low power design. There are so many tutorials on Low Power and everyone's concerns/questions seems to be dancing around Multi-Voltage design. What I could sense was there were lot of designers Implementing Multi-Supply(Power-Gating) as opposed to real Multi-Voltage design. There are 3 classics style of new design style i found
- Multi-Supply(Power Gating)
- Static Multi-Voltage
- Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling
Lets us discuss about Multi-Voltage design in the forthcoming posts. Like any other design implementation, MV design has its own challenges and much more difficult to sign-off.
I would like to classify the different stages of the design into small segments so that we can discuss one by one.
- Design Infrastructure
- Architectural level consideration
- Microarchitecture
- RTL Design
- RTL functional verification
- Implementation
- Functional Sign-Off
- Silicon Signoff
- Resources For Help
Next post is going to be a in-depth technical article i guess!
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