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 …

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 …

Fine-grained sleep transistor sizing algorithm for leakage power minimization

DS Chiou, DC Juan, YT Chen, SC Chang - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Power gating is one of the most effective ways to reduce leakage power. In this paper, we
introduce a new relationship among Maximum Instantaneous Current, IR drops and sleep …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Novel sleep transistor techniques for low leakage power peripheral circuits

HP Rajani, S Kulkarni - International Journal of VLSI Design & …, 2012 - academia.edu
Static power consumption is a major concern in nanometre technologies. Along with
technology scaling down and higher operating speeds of CMOS VLSI circuits, the leakage …

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 …

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 …

Coarse-grain MTCMOS sleep transistor sizing using delay budgeting

E Pakbaznia, M Pedram - Proceedings of the conference on Design …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Power gating is one of the most effective techniques in reducing the standby leakage current
of VLSI circuits. In this paper we introduce a new approach for sleep transistor sizing which …