Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom

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<STRONG><P>This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.</P><P></P><P>Important topics include:<BR>- Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation<BR>- Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining<BR>- Analysis of the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages<BR>- Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages<BR>- Verification for multiple voltage domains<BR>- Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages<BR>- Power gating design automation to reduce leakage<BR>- Relationships among tatistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization</P><P></P><P>Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.</P></STRONG><P> </P>

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