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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 387)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Low Power Sequential Logic Circuits presents a methodology for low power design. The authors first present a survey of techniques for estimating the average power dissipation of a logic circuit. At the logic level, power dissipation is directly related to average switching activity. A symbolic simulation method that accurately computes the average switching activity in logic circuits is then described. This method is extended to handle sequential logic circuits by modeling correlation in time and by calculating the probabilities of present state lines.
Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Low Power Sequential Logic Circuits then presents a survey of methods to optimize logic circuits for low power dissipation which target reduced switching activity. A method to retime a sequential logic circuit where registers are repositioned such that the overall glitching in the circuit is minimized is also described. The authors then detail a powerful optimization method that is based on selectively precomputing the output logic values of a circuit one clock cycle before they are required, and using the precomputed value to reduce internal switching activity in the succeeding clock cycle.
Presented next is a survey of methods that reduce switching activity in circuits described at the register-transfer and behavioral levels. Also described is a scheduling algorithm that reduces power dissipation by maximising the inactivity period of the modules in a given circuit.
Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Low Power Sequential Logic Circuits concludes with a summary and directions for future research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Low Power Sequential Logic Circuits
Authors: José Monteiro, Srinivas Devadas
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6319-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9829-5Published: 30 November 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7901-0Published: 12 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6319-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 181
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design