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Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

  • Provides a variety of approaches to control and exploit leakage
  • Examines the issues with implementing sub-threshold logic and describes techniques to tackle these issues
  • Presents a new, practical self-compensated, closed loop approach to controlling leakage, via sub-threshold circuits, which yields upwards of 20X power savings

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-22
  2. Introduction

    • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
    Pages 1-6
  3. Leakage Reduction Techniques: Minimizing Leakage in Modern Day DSM Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
  4. Leakage Reduction Techniques: Minimizing Leakage In Modern Day DSM Processes

    1. Existing Leakage Minimization Approaches

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 9-14
    2. Computing Leakage Current Distributions

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 15-31
    3. Finding a Minimal Leakage Vector in the Presence of Random PVT Variations Using Signal Probabilities

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 33-54
    4. The HL Approach: A Low-Leakage ASIC Design Methodology

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 55-76
    5. Simultaneous Input Vector Control and Circuit Modification

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 77-90
    6. Optimum Reverse Body Biasing for Leakage Minimization

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 91-100
    7. Part I: Conclusions and Future Directions

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 101-105
  5. Practical Methodologies for Sub-threshold Circuit Design: Exploiting Leakage Through Sub-threshold Circuit Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-108
    2. Exploiting Leakage: Sub-threshold Circuit Design

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 109-114
    3. Adaptive Body Biasing to Compensate for PVT Variations

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 115-128
    4. Optimum VDD for Minimum Energy

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 129-142
    5. Reclaiming the Sub-threshold Speed Penalty Through Micropipelining

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 143-155
    6. Part II: Conclusions and Future Directions

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 157-159
  6. Design of a Sub-threshold BFSK Transmitter IC

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-162
  7. Design of a Sub-threshold BFSK Transmitter IC

    1. Design of the Chip

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 163-175
    2. Implementation of the Chip

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 177-191
    3. Experimental Results

      • Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri
      Pages 193-199

About this book

Power consumption of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) circuits has been growing at an alarmingly rapid rate. This increase in power consumption, coupled with the increasing demand for portable/hand-held electronics, has made power consumption a dominant concern in the design of VLSI circuits today. Traditionally, dynamic (switching) power has dominated the total power consumption of an IC. However, due to current scaling trends, leakage power has now become a major component of the total power consumption in VLSI circuits. Leakage power reduction is especially important in portable/hand-held electronics such as cell-phones and PDAs. This book presents two techniques aimed at reducing leakage power in digital VLSI ICs. The first technique reduces leakage through the selective use of high threshold voltage sleep transistors. The second technique reduces leakage by applying the optimal Reverse Body Bias (RBB) voltage. This book also shows readers how to turn the leakage problem into an opportunity, through the use of sub-threshold logic.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sunnyvale, U.S.A.

    Nikhil Jayakumar

  • Austin, U.S.A.

    Suganth Paul

  • Hillsboro, U.S.A.

    Rajesh Garg

  • College Station, U.S.A.

    Kanupriya Gulati

  • Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, U.S.A.

    Sunil P. Khatri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

  • Authors: Nikhil Jayakumar, Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Kanupriya Gulati, Sunil P. Khatri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0950-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0949-7Published: 03 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8529-3Published: 28 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0950-3Published: 02 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 214

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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