Low Power CMOS VLSI: Circuit Design

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A comprehensive look at the rapidly growing field of low-power VLSI design

Low-power VLSI circuit design is a dynamic research area driven by the growing reliance on battery-powered portable computing and wireless communications products. In addition, it has become critical to the continued progress of high-performance and reliable microelectronic systems. This self-contained volume clearly introduces each topic, incorporates dozens of illustrations, and concludes chapters with summaries and references. VLSI circuit and CAD engineers as well as researchers in universities and industry will find ample information on tools and techniques for design and optimization of low-power electronic systems. Topics include:

Fundamentals of power dissipation in microelectronic devices
Estimation of power dissipation due to switching, short circuit, subthreshold leakage, and diode leakage currents
Design and test of low-voltage CMOS circuits
Power-conscious logic and high-level synthesis
Low-power static RAM architecture
Energy recovery techniques
Software power estimation and optimization

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Good Book.......2002-03-31

The most upto date book on low-power design methods. Some information is redundant and can be eliminated from the book. The chapter on the physics of a transistor is excellent. THERE ARE A LOT OF TYPOS IN THE BOOK!

Great book!.......2000-10-11

This book was very helpful for me to understand about modern low-power chip design,also made me save my times to search the papers about this topic. Great book.

Comprehensive and up-to-date for Low power CMOS Design.......2000-06-21

It is the most comprehensive book in the low power CMOS design area, which covers the low power methods in different levels.

Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power Operational Amplifier Cells (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

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Excellent refrence material for Serious Analog designers

Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power Operational Amplifier Cells (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Ron Hogervorst , and Johan H. Huijsing
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ASIN: 0792397819

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Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power CMOS Operational Amplifier Cells describes the theory and design of the circuit elements that are required to realize a low-voltage, low-power operational amplifier. These elements include constant-gm rail-to-rail input stages, class-AB rail-to-rail output stages and frequency compensation methods. Several examples of each of these circuit elements are investigated. Furthermore, the book illustrates several silicon realizations, giving their measurement results.
The text focuses on compact low-voltage low-power operational amplifiers with good performance. Six simple high-performance class-AB amplifiers are realized using a very compact topology making them particularly suitable for use as VLSI library cells. All of the designs can use a supply voltage as low as 3V. One of the amplifier designs dissipates only 50ÂµW with a unity gain frequency of 1.5 MHz. A second set of amplifiers run on a supply voltage slightly above 1V. The amplifiers combine a low power consumption with a gain of 120 dB. In addition, the design of three fully differential operational amplifiers is addressed.
Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power CMOS Operational Amplifier Cells is intended for professional designers of analog circuits. It is also suitable for use as a text book for an advanced course in CMOS operational amplifier design.

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Excellent refrence material for Serious Analog designers.......2002-02-03

This is a good reference book for practicing engineers as well as
beginers and students, to explore contemporary opamp architecture
and design approaches. Seriously interested reader are encoraged
to further explore other book co-authored by Dr Johan Huijsing.

VLSI Memory Chip Design (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics) (SPRINGER SERIES IN ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS)

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Finally one solid memory design book

VLSI Memory Chip Design (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics) (SPRINGER SERIES IN ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS)
K. Itoh
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ASIN: 3540678204

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This book features a systematic description of microelectronic device design ranging from the basics to current topics, such as low-power/ultralow-voltage designs including subthreshold current reduction, memory subsystem designs for modern DRAMs and various on-chip supply-voltage conversion techniques. It also covers process and device issues as well as design issues relating to systems, circuits, devices and processes, such as signal-to-noise and redundancy.

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Finally one solid memory design book.......2004-05-01

This is one of the well-written books in the field of custom circuit design. Overall organization and all chapters are well written. Circuit design details are excellent. Some of the noise analysis and pitfalls of memory design are very good. Treatment on high-performance and low power memory design is superb. Great JOB.

The Design And Implementation Of Low-power C M O S Radio Receivers

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An Excellent Text
Just the right book for the design

The Design And Implementation Of Low-power C M O S Radio Receivers
Derek Shaeffer
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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ASIN: 0792385187

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The primary goal of The Design and Implementation of Low-Power CMOS Radio Receivers is to explore techniques for implementing wireless receivers in an inexpensive complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Although the techniques developed apply somewhat generally across many classes of receivers, the specific focus of this work is on the Global Positioning System (GPS). Because GPS provides a convenient vehicle for examining CMOS receivers, a brief overview of the GPS system and its implications for consumer electronics is presented. The GPS system comprises 24 satellites in low earth orbit that continuously broadcast their position and local time. Through satellite range measurements, a receiver can determine its absolute position and time to within about 100m anywhere on Earth, as long as four satellites are within view. The deployment of this satellite network was completed in 1994 and, as a result, consumer markets for GPS navigation capabilities are beginning to blossom. Examples include automotive or maritime navigation, intelligent hand-off algorithms in cellular telephony, and cellular emergency services, to name a few. Of particular interest in the context of this book are embedded GPS applications where a GPS receiver is just one component of a larger system. Widespread proliferation of embedded GPS capability will require receivers that are compact, cheap and low-power. The Design and Implementation of Low-Power CMOS Radio Receivers will be of interest to professional radio engineers, circuit designers, professors and students engaged in integrated radio research and other researchers who work in the radio field.

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An Excellent Text.......2001-01-16

Very well organized and written. Useful equations and Figures. A Must-Have for the CMOS RFIC designer.

Just the right book for the design.......2000-10-21

The price is high but worth it.

Closing the POWER Gap between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for Low Power design

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A study of low-power processor design

Closing the POWER Gap between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for Low Power design
Chimnery D.
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Low Power Methodology Manual: For System-on-Chip Design (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)

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ASIN: 0387257632

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This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.

Important topics include:
- Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation
- Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining
- Analysis of the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages
- Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages
- Verification for multiple voltage domains
- Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages
- Power gating design automation to reduce leakage
- Relationships among tatistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization

Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.

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A study of low-power processor design.......2007-09-30

Recently the requirements for my processor design work have shifted from maximizing performance to minimizing power consumption. This new book from the authors of "Closing the Gap between ASIC & Custom" was published at just the right time. It follows a similar format as the previous book, but instead discusses the considerations involved in minimizing power consumption of processors. The authors again draw extensively on real-world chip design examples and have included contributions from a range of industry experts.

This is a book for chip designers and processor architects. It covers the contribution of and techniques to minimize power consumption from the major factors in processors of leakage, active switching, and clock tree. The book does not discuss the design of software or system hardware outside of processor chips such as batteries, displays, or transceivers.

As academics, the authors have insight into many leading edge design techniques and many companies' commercial chip designs. I know of no other book on low power design that is as deep or thorough a treatment of the subject as this one.

Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)

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Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)
Alice Wang , Benton H. Calhoun , and Anantha P. Chandrakasan
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ASIN: 0387335153

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The topic of sub-threshold VLSI has been discussed since the 1970â€™s when the minimum supply voltage was theorized based on various sub-threshold models. It has been used in simple designs, such as watches and hearing aids. In new and upcoming wireless applications, such as distributed microsensors or medical applications, minimizing energy dissipation is the primary concern and has motivated investigation of the optimum design for minimizing energy dissipation or power for a given performance constraint. Sub-threshold circuits are ideal for this class of applications, thus making sub-threshold VLSI a realistic solution.

This book combines the research of two MIT graduate students, which has spawned an exciting new field of research into sub-threshold circuit and system design. The work includes the research of Alice Wang who designed the first 180mV sub-threshold processor that minimizes energy dissipation and Benton Calhoun who has worked on modeling the optimum voltage to minimize energy dissipation and has designed a sub-threshold SRAM. The book includes a survey of the field of sub-threshold and low-voltage design and will delve into various aspects of sub-threshold circuit design such as modeling, logic and memory circuit design. One important chapter of the book is dedicated to optimizing energy dissipation which is a key metric for energy constrained designs. This book also includes invited chapters about the subject of analog sub-threshold circuits.

Digital System Clocking: High-Performance and Low-Power Aspects

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Fantastic Text

Digital System Clocking: High-Performance and Low-Power Aspects
Vojin G. Oklobdzija , Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Dejan M. Markovic , and Nikola M. Nedovic
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ASIN: 047127447X

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Provides the only up-to-date source on the most recent advances in this often complex and fascinating topic.

The only book to be entirely devoted to clocking
Clocking has become one of the most important topics in the field of digital system design
A "must have" book for advanced circuit engineers

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Provides the only up-to-date source on the most recent advances in this often complex and fascinating topic.
* The only book to be entirely devoted to clocking
* Clocking has become one of the most important topics in the field of digital system design.
* A "must have" book for advanced circuit engineers

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Fantastic Text.......2005-05-26

A fantastic text giving a wealth of information regarding high-performance and low-power design. I believe its the first book to adequately address designs that require high-performanc, but also have low-power dissipation. A must for any VLSI designer!

Low-Power Electronics Design (CRC COMPUTER ENGINEERING)

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Excellent book!
Excellent book

Low-Power Electronics Design (CRC COMPUTER ENGINEERING)
Christian, Ed. Piguet
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ASIN: 0849319412

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The power consumption of integrated circuits is one of the most problematic considerations affecting the design of high-performance chips and portable devices. The study of power-saving design methodologies now must also include subjects such as systems on chips, embedded software, and the future of microelectronics. Low-Power Electronics Design covers all major aspects of low-power design of ICs in deep submicron technologies and addresses emerging topics related to future design. This volume explores, in individual chapters written by expert authors, the many low-power techniques born during the past decade. It also discusses the many different domains and disciplines that impact power consumption, including processors, complex circuits, software, CAD tools, and energy sources and management. The authors delve into what many specialists predict about the future by presenting techniques that are promising but are not yet reality. They investigate nanotechnologies, optical circuits, ad hoc networks, e-textiles, as well as human powered sources of energy. Low-Power Electronics Design delivers a complete picture of today's methods for reducing power, and also illustrates the advances in chip design that may be commonplace 10 or 15 years from now.

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Excellent book!.......2006-11-25

This book has the contribution of most of the main researchers in the low power topic. Everyone who is working or is planning to work with low power related topics should have this book.

Excellent book.......2006-07-24

A very interesting book on low power at different levels of design abstraction

Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling: The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design

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Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling: The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design
Christian C. Enz , and Eric A. Vittoz
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Modern, large-scale analog integrated circuits (ICs) are essentially composed of metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors and their interconnections. As technology scales down to deep sub-micron dimensions and supply voltage decreases to reduce power consumption, these complex analog circuits are even more dependent on the exact behavior of each transistor. High-performance analog circuit design requires a very detailed model of the transistor, describing accurately its static and dynamic behaviors, its noise and matching limitations and its temperature variations. The charge-based EKV (Enz-Krummenacher-Vittoz) MOS transistor model for IC design has been developed to provide a clear understanding of the device properties, without the use of complicated equations. All the static, dynamic, noise, non-quasi-static models are completely described in terms of the inversion charge at the source and at the drain taking advantage of the symmetry of the device. Thanks to its hierarchical structure, the model offers several coherent description levels, from basic hand calculation equations to complete computer simulation model. It is also compact, with a minimum number of process-dependant device parameters.

Written by its developers, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the EKV charge-based model of the MOS transistor for the design and simulation of low-power analog and RF ICs. Clearly split into three parts, the authors systematically examine:

the basic long-channel intrinsic charge-based model, including all the fundamental aspects of the EKV MOST model such as the basic large-signal static model, the noise model, and a discussion of temperature effects and matching properties;
the extended charge-based model, presenting important information for understanding the operation of deep-submicron devices;
the high-frequency model, setting out a complete MOS transistor model required for designing RF CMOS integrated circuits.

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The power consumption of microprocessors is one of the most important challenges of high-performance chips and portable devices. In chapters drawn from Piguet's recently published Low-Power Electronics Design, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools addresses the design of low-power circuitry in deep submicron technologies. It provides a focused reference for specialists involved in designing low-power circuitry, from transistors to logic gates. The book is organized into three broad sections for convenient access. The first examines the history of low-power electronics along with a look at emerging and possible future technologies. It also considers other technologies, such as nanotechnologies and optical chips, that may be useful in designing integrated circuits. The second part explains the techniques used to reduce power consumption at low levels. These include clock gating, leakage reduction, interconnecting and communication on chips, and adiabatic circuits. The final section discusses various CAD tools for designing low-power circuits. This section includes three chapters that demonstrate the tools and low-power design issues at three major companies that produce logic synthesizers. Providing detailed examinations contributed by leading experts, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools supplies authoritative information on how to design and model for high performance with low power consumption in modern integrated circuits. It is a must-read for anyone designing modern computers or embedded systems.

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