ECE 523 Low Power VLSI Design
Source of power dissipation, technology impact on power dissipation, low power circuit techniques, energy recovery, synthesis of low power circuits, low power components.
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture
Prerequisites:
ECE 423 or consent of instructor
Course Coordinator:
Themistoklis
Haniotakis
Textbooks:
Low Power Design Methodologies, Jan M. Rabaey and Massoud Pedram,
Springer, 1996, ISBN: 0-7923-9630-8.
Goals:
To familiarize students with sources of power dissipation in modern VLSI circuits. To provide students with the ability to analyze circuits and determine the power requirements of a particular design. -
To provide students with the ability to design circuits that will comply with power requirement specifications while meeting performance and cost requirements.
Course Outline:
Overview of power dissipation sources, static and dynamic power consumption. The effect of voltage, node capacitance and switching activity. The effect of Vdd and Vt on power dissipation and circuit speed. Transistor sizing. Technology scaling. Calculation of a power consumption, switching probabilities, effective capacitance, short-circuit power consumption, static power consumption. Precharged circuits. Reduced voltage swing. The effect of glitches on power consumption. Power consumption of different design styles. Energy recovery CMOS. Performance considerations. Low power clock distribution. Power estimation, simulation-based and probabilistic techniques. Synthesis with power minimization. Low power arithmetic components. Low power memory. Low power microprocessor design.
Computer Tools: Cadence
Last Review: Spring Semester 2004
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