Motivated by emerging battery-operated applications that demand intensive computation in
portable environments, techniques are investigated which reduce power consumption in …

An approach is presented for minimizing power consumption for digital systems
implemented in CMOS which involves optimization at all levels of the design. This …

A personal communications system (PCS) that centers on integration of services to provide
access to data and communications using a specialized, wireless multimedia terminal is …

Much of the recent efforts into low power design techniques neglects the impact memory
accesses have on power consumption. This paper provides a summary of the techniques …

The design of an encoder for pruned tree-search vector quantization (VQ) is discussed. This
allows near-optimal performance in a mean square error sense while keeping the hardware …

This paper demonstrates techniques to optimize power consumption of memory intensive
applications. A design example-a video, vector quantizer encoder-demonstrates how …

A high-speed image compression VLSI processor based on the systolic architecture of
difference-codebook binary tree-searched vector quantization has been developed to meet …

With ever increasing integration levels, power has become a critical design parameter.
Consequently, a lot of effort has gone into achieving lower dissipation at all levels of the …

Video data compression techniques reduce necessary stor age size and communication
channel bandwidth while main taining acceptable fidelity. Vector quantization provides bet …

The VLSI design and implementation of a tree-searched vector quantizer is presented. The
number of processors needed is equal to the depth of the tree. All processors are identical …