Low-power design technique for ASICs by partially reducing supply voltage

Kimiyoshi Usami; Takashi Ishikawa; Masahiro Kanazawa; Hiroko Kotani

Low-power design technique for ASICs by partially reducing supply voltage

Kimiyoshi Usami, Takashi Ishikawa, Masahiro Kanazawa, Hiroko Kotani

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss power reduction by comparing two different design techniques targeting low-power ASICs: clustered voltage scaling (CVS) and gate resizing. The CVS is a technique to reduce supply voltage partially, allowing to reduce power without performance degradation. As a result of applying to real gate-array circuits, the CVS reduced power by 30-60% even at dominant wire capacitance, while the gate re-sizing got less effective. The CVS is considered to be a key technique toward deep sub-micron age, in which the wire capacitance will be further dominant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	301-304
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference and Exhibit
Publication status	Published - 1996 Jan 1
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1996 9th Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference and Exhibit - Rochester, NY, USA Duration: 1996 Sep 23 → 1996 Sep 27

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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