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 …

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 …

In this paper, we propose a framework for low-energy digital signal processing (DSP), where
the supply voltage is scaled beyond the critical voltage imposed by the requirement to match …

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

Reduction in leakage power has become an important concern in low-voltage, low-power,
and high-performance applications. In this paper, we use the dual-threshold technique to …

Malicious hardware Trojan circuitry inserted in safety-critical applications is a major threat to
national security. In this work, we propose a novel application of a key-based obfuscation …

In this paper, we propose a framework for low-energy digital signal processing (DSP) where
the supply voltage is scaled beyond the critical voltage required to match the critical path …

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 …

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