In the past, the major concern of the VLSI designers werearea, performance, cost, and
reliability. In recent years, however, this has changed and, increasingly, power is beinggiven …

Over the years, the fundamentals of VLSI technology have evolved to include a wide range
of topics and a broad range of practices. To encompass such a vast amount of knowledge …

Provides a technique for efficiently exploring the configuration space of a parameterized
system-on-a-chip (SOC) architecture to find all Pareto-optimal configurations. These …

The power consumption of integrated circuits is one of the most problematic considerations
affecting the design of high-performance chips and portable devices. The study of power …

A modeling approach is presentedthat captures the dependence of the power dissipationof
a combinational logic circuit on its input/outputsignal switching activity. The resultingpower …

Decision diagram (DD) techniques are very popular in the electronic design automation
(EDA) of integrated circuits, and for good reason. They can accurately simulate logic design …

Reliability of logic circuits is emerging as an important concern in scaled electronic
technologies. Reliability analysis of logic circuits is computationally complex because of the …

In this paper, we propose a modeling approach that captures the dependence of the power
dissipation of a combinational logic circuit on its input/output signal switching statistics. The …

Register-transfer level (RTL) power estimation is a key feature for synthesis-based design
flows. The main challenge in establishing a sound RTL power estimation methodology is the …

High-level power estimation, when given only a high-level design specification such as a
functional or register-transfer level (RTL) description, requires high-level estimation of the …