Distributed sleep transistor network for power reduction

C Long, L He - Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
Sleep transistors are effective to reduce dynamic and leakage power. The cluster-based
design was proposed to reduce the sleep transistor area by clustering gates to minimize the …

Timing driven power gating

DS Chiou, SH Chen, SC Chang, C Yeh - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Power Gating is effective for reducing leakage power. Previously, a Distributed Sleep
Transistor Network (DSTN) was proposed to reduce the sleep transistor area by connecting …

Challenges in sleep transistor design and implementation in low-power designs

K Shi, D Howard - Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Optimum power gating sleep transistor design and implementation are critical to a
successful low-power design. This paper describes important considerations for the sleep …

Sleep transistor design and implementation-simple concepts yet challenges to be optimum

K Shi, D Howard - … Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimum sleep transistor design and implementation are critical to a successful power-
gating design. This paper describes a number of critical considerations for the sleep …

Leakage control through fine-grained placement and sizing of sleep transistors

V Khandelwal, A Srivastava - IEEE transactions on computer …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multithreshold CMOS (MTCMOS) technology has become a popular technique for standby
power reduction. Sleep transistor insertion in circuits is an effective application of MTCMOS …

Sleep transistor sizing using timing criticality and temporal currents

A Ramalingam, B Zhang, A Devgan… - … of the 2005 Asia and South …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Power gating is a circuit technique that enables high performance and low power operation.
One of the challenges in power gating is sizing the sleep transistor which is used to gate the …

MTCMOS hierarchical sizing based on mutual exclusive discharge patterns

J Kao, S Narendra, A Chandrakasan - Proceedings of the 35th annual …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
Multi-threshold CMOS is a popular circuit style that will provide high performance and low
power operation. Optimally sizing the gating sleep transistor to provide adequate …

Dynamic and leakage power reduction in MTCMOS circuits using an automated efficient gate clustering technique

M Anis, M Mahmoud, M Elmasry, S Areibi - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
Reducing power dissipation is one of the most principle subjects in VLSI design today.
Scaling causes subthreshold leakage currents to become a large component of total power …

Transistor sizing issues and tool for multi-threshold CMOS technology

J Kao, A Chandrakasan, D Antoniadis - Proceedings of the 34th annual …, 1997 - dl.acm.org
Multi-threshold CMOS is an increasingly popular circuitapproach that enables high
performance and low power operation. However, no methodologies have been developed …

A leakage reduction methodology for distributed MTCMOS

BH Calhoun, FA Honore… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multithreshold CMOS (MTCMOS) circuits reduce standby leakage power with low delay
overhead. Most MTCMOS designs cut off the power to large blocks of logic using large sleep …