Low-Power CMOS Circuits covers all the low-level aspects of the design of low-power ICs in deep submicron technologies.

Features:

• Presents a complete picture of current low-power techniques, tools, and technologies
• Looks at the future of integrated circuits and what changes may emerge over the next 10 to 15 years
• Details the design of dynamic logic, arithmetic circuits pipelining, and parallelization for low power and VHDL for low power
• Describes the tools and low-power issues of three major companies currently providing logic synthesizers

Contents

Technologies and Devices

• History of Low-Power Electronics
• Evolution of Deep Submicron Bulk and SOI Technologies
• Leakage in CMOS Nanometric Technologies
• Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and the Future of Electronics
• Advanced Research in On-Chip Optical Interconnects

Low-Power Circuits

• Modeling for Designing in Deep Submicron Technologies
• Logic Circuits and Standard Cells
• Low-Power Very Fast Dynamic Logic Circuits
• Low-Power Arithmetic Operators
• Circuit Techniques for Dynamic Power Reduction
• VHDL for Low-Power
• Clocking Multi-GHz Systems
• Circuit Techniques for Leakage Reduction
• Low-Power and Low-Voltage Communication for SoCs
• Adiabatic and Clock-Powered Circuits
• Weak Inversion for Ultimate Low-Power Logic
• Robustness of Digital Circuits at Lower Voltages

CAD Tools for Low-Power

• High Level Power Estimation and Analysis (Wolfgang Nebel, Oldenburg University, Germany, Domenik Helms, OFFIS, Germany)
• Power Macro-Models for High-Level Power Estimation (Enrico Macii, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Massimo Poncino, Universita di Verona, Italy)
• Synopsys Low-Power Design Flow (Renu Mehra, Barry Pangrle, Synopsys Inc.)
• Magma Low Power Flow (Ed Huijbregts, Lars Kruse, Eric Seelen, Magma Design Automation Inc.)
• Sequence Design Flow for Low-Power Design

Index

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