1st Edition

Low-Power CMOS Circuits Technology, Logic Design and CAD Tools

By Christian Piguet Copyright 2006
436 Pages 298 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

436 Pages 298 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The power consumption of microprocessors is one of the most important challenges of high-performance chips and portable devices. In chapters drawn from Piguet's recently published Low-Power Electronics Design, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools addresses the design of low-power circuitry in deep submicron technologies. It provides a focused reference for specialists... Read more
TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICES

History of Low-Power Electronics (Christian Piguet, CSEM&LAP-EPFL, Switzerland)
Evolution of Deep Submicron Bulk and SOI Technologies (Marc Belleville, Olivier Faynot, CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France)
Leakage in CMOS Nanometric Technologies (Antoni Ferré, Joan Figueras, UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and the Future of Electronics" (Jing Wang, Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University, West Lafayette)
Advanced Research in On-Chip Optical Interconnects (Ian O'Connor, Frédéric Gaffiot, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France)

LOW-POWER CIRCUITS

Modeling for Designing in Deep Submicron Technologies (Daniel Auvergne, Philippe Maurine, Nadine Azémard, LIRMM, Montpellier, France)
Logic Circuits and Standard Cells (Christian Piguet, CSEM&LAP-EPFL, Switzerland)
Low-Power Very Fast Dynamic Logic Circuits (Jiren Yuan, Lund University, Sweden)
Low-Power Arithmetic Operators (Arnaud Tisserand, INRIA, Lyon, France)
Circuit Techniques for Dynamic Power Reduction (Dimitrios Soudris, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
VHDL for Low-Power (Amara Amara, ISEP, Paris, France and Philippe Royannez, Texas Instruments, France)
Clocking Multi-GHz Systems (Vojin G. Oklobdzija, Davis University, CA)
Circuit Techniques for Leakage Reduction (Amit Agarwal, Chris H. Kim, Kaushik Roy, Purdue University)
Low-Power and Low-Voltage Communication for SoCs (Christer Svensson, Linköping University, Sweden)
Adiabatic and Clock-Powered Circuits (Lars Svensson, Chalmers University, Sweden)
Weak Inversion for Ultimate Low-Power Logic (Eric A. Vittoz, CSEM, Switzerland)
Robustness of Digital Circuits at Lower Voltages (Harry Veendrick, Philips, Netherlands)

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 (Jerry Frenkil, Sequence Design)

Biography

Christian Piguet