Title
Minimizing power with flexible voltage islands
Abstract
Power dissipation is becoming the most challenging design constraint in nanometer technologies. Among various design implementation schemes, standard cell ASIC offer the best power efficiency for high-performance applications. The flexibility of ASIC allow for the use of multiple voltages and multiple thresholds to match the performance of critical regions to their timing constraints, and minimize the power everywhere else. The use of multiple supply voltages presents some unique physical and electrical challenges. Level shifters need to be introduced between the various voltage regions. The physical layout needs to be designed to ensure the efficient delivery of the correct voltage to various voltage regions. More flexibility can be gained by using appropriate level shifters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464514
ISCAS (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
application specific integrated circuits,cellular arrays,circuit optimisation,integrated circuit layout,minimisation,power consumption,power supply circuits,critical regions,flexible voltage islands,level shifters,multiple supply voltages,multiple thresholds,multiple voltages,nanometer technologies,physical layout,power dissipation,power minimization,standard cell ASIC,timing constraints
Integrated circuit layout,Electrical efficiency,Computer science,Dissipation,Voltage,Electronic engineering,Application-specific integrated circuit,Critical regions,Minimisation (psychology),Standard cell,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0271-4302
0-7803-8834-8
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.75
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruchir Puri1181.75
David S. Kung216620.93
Leon Stok3181.75