Power Analysis
Interview Question on Power Analysis
Your task is to do power analysis for a circuit that sends out a one-clock-cycle pulse on the done signal once every 16…
Low Power
Power Supplies
Dynamic power supply
Power gating adds enabling signals to a power supply network; dynamic power supply management adjusts supply voltage ac…
TechOnline
Reduce Power, Area and Routing Congestion
This paper , using an example design, demonstrates how to meet challenging performance, latency and bandwidth goals by …
TechOnline
Designing Low Power, Multi-Primary Technology for Mobile Phone Displays
Displays have always been a major power consumer in mobile devices. In the past, one easy way to keep power demands in …
White Papers
Fast, Easy, and Flexible Power for System Designers
Systems designers are having a difficult time developing power subsystems that supply all of their system's power n…
Top 10
The Top 10 power management 'How To' design articles of 2008
EETimes has published an article on the Top 10 Power Management articles of 2008. {Follow Here}
Power Gating
Hierarchy and Power Gating
A scalable approach to chip architecture is essential and valuable since a SOC design today often becomes a component i…
Low Power
Architecture and partitioning for low power
A good working definition of architecture ( in the context of IP design, atleast) is the partitioning and interface des…
Retention
Retention mechanisms in power gated designs
How can we retain state of some of the registers in the design? How to deal with memory state? Let me try to explain…
Timing
Timing closure impacted by DVFS!!
While designing systems with DVFS techniques, we need to look at the impact of temperature inversion on the performance…
Low Power
Voltage and Frequency scaling mechanisms
There are various voltage scaling approaches that are in use today, Static Voltage Scaling: Different blocks in t…
Timing
Interview Question
Due to a miscommunication during design, you thought your circuit was supposed to have a supply voltage of 2.1 volts (t…
Low Power
RTL considerations and Functional verification of low power designs
This article is about RTL in a Multi-Voltage environment and it's implication on verification. In the earlier …
Low Power
Todays Low Power Techniques
Lets take a look at the various low power techniques in use today. I would classify them into 2 categories Structu…
Low Power
Design Elements of Low Power Design
Special cells are required for implementing a Multi-Voltage design. Level Shifter Isolation Cell Enable Level Shifter…
Low Power
Infrastructure Needs for Multi-Voltage Designs
Before we start looking at implementing a Multi-Voltage design there are certain questions that need to be answered to …
Low Power
Multi Voltage magic
In the last few weeks i have been quite busy with a lot of research on low power design. There are so many tutorial…
Low Power
Vt Cells and Spacing Requirements
Multi-Vt placement/spacing concerns I was just thinking about most common concerns faced today in addressing leakage p…
Synthesis
Low power design
Primarily design for low power depends on the characteristics design being accomplished. If it is a multi-million gate …