MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
With increasing clock frequencies and silicon integration, power aware computing has become a critical concern in the design of embedded processors and systems-on-chip. One of the...
GLVLSI
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
A CMOS flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) designed for high speed and low voltage is presented. Using the Threshold Inverter Quantization (TIQ) comparator technique, a flas...
ISLPED
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents a delay optimal FPGA clustering algorithm targeting low power. We assume that the configurable logic blocks of the FPGA can be programmed using either a high s...
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
— The problem of minimizing dynamic power consumption by scaling down the supply voltage of computational elements off critical paths is widely addressed in the literature for th...
VLSID
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract—Integrated power supplies are critical building blocks in stateof-the-art portable applications, where they efficiently and accurately transform a battery supply into va...
GLVLSI
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Operating an integrated circuit at the prescribed nominal supply voltage is not preferable for reliable circuit operation under temperature fluctuations. A design methodology base...
ISQED
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Straining of silicon improves mobility of carriers resulting in speed enhancement for transistors in CMOS technology. Traditionally, silicon straining is applied in a similar ad-h...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
— This paper describes a new power minimizing method by optimizing supply voltage control and minimizing leakage in active and standby modes, respectively. In the active mode, th...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
— A methodology based on supply voltage optimization for lowering the power consumption and temperature fluctuations induced skew of clock distribution networks is proposed in th...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— We study leakage-power reduction in standby random access memories (SRAMs) during data-retention. An SRAM cell requires a minimum critical supply voltage (DRV) above wh...