Low power has emerged as a principal theme in today's electronics industry. The need for
low power has caused a major paradigm shift in which power dissipation is as important as …

Low supply voltage requires the device threshold to be reduced in order to maintain
performance. Due to the exponential relationship between leakage current and threshold …

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 …

The dramatic increase of power consumption in very large scale integration circuits has led
to high operating temperature and large thermal gradient, thereby resulting in serious timing …

Low power signal processing systems are required for distributed network microsensor
technology. Network microsensors now provide a new monitoring and control capability for …

We present a power estimation technique for digital integrated circuits that operates at the
register transfer level (RTL). Such a high-level power estimation capability Is required in …

Embedded systems are usually composed of several interacting components such as
custom or application specific processors, ASICs, memory blocks, and the associated …

Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for
designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management …

To effectively design a computer system for the worst case power consumption scenario,
system architects often use hand-crafted maximum power consuming benchmarks at the …

With the advent of portable and high-density microelectronic devices, the power dissipation
of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits is becoming a critical concern. Accurate and …