Dynamic voltage (IR) drop, unlike the static voltage drop depends on the switching activity of
the design, and hence it is vector dependent. In this paper we have highlighted the pitfalls in …

Power Gating has become one of the most widely used circuit design techniques for
reducing leakage current. Its concept is very simple, but its application to standard-cell VLSI …

While negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) effects on logic gates are of major concern
for the reliability of digital circuits, they become even more critical when considering the …

Ground bouncing noise produced during the SLEEP to ACTIVE mode transitions is an
important challenge in standard multithreshold CMOS (MTCMOS) circuits. The effectiveness …

We present the design and implementation of linear-phase delay filters for ultra-low-power
signal processing in neural recording implants. We use these filters as low-distortion delay …

In this paper, we show that negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) aging of sleep
transistors (STs), together with its detrimental effect for circuit performance and lifetime (LT) …

Power-gating is one of the most promising and widely adopted solutions for controlling sub-
threshold leakage power in nanometer circuits. Although single-cycle power-mode transition …

Retention registers have been widely used in power gated designs to store data during
sleep mode. However, their excessive area and leakage power render it imperative to …

In this paper we show that power gating techniques become more effective during their
lifetime, since the aging of sleep transistors (STs) due to negative bias temperature …

A problem inherent in designing power-gated circuits is the overhead of the state-retention
storage required to preserve the circuit state in standby mode. Reducing the amount of …