Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom

Explains how to use low power design in an automated design flow, and examine the design time and performance trade-offs. This title includes the latest tools and techniques for low power design applied in an ASIC design flow. It focuses on low power in an automated design methodology.

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This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.





Important topics include:
- Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation
- Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining
- Analysis of the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages
- Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages
- Verification for multiple voltage domains
- Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages
- Power gating design automation to reduce leakage
- Relationships among tatistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization





Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.