Low Power Design Techniques for Integrated Circuits

Low Power Design Techniques for Integrated Circuits

Low Power Design Techniques for Integrated Circuits

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Low Power Design Techniques for Integrated Circuits

Below are the low power series articles previously published on the public account:
Overview of Low Power Design Methods:
Low Power Design Techniques
Digital Backend Low Power — Various Low Power Techniques and Their Applications in IC Backend Layout
Register Transfer Level Low Power Design Techniques:
Low Power Design Strategies — State Machine Encoding and Decoding
Low Power Design Strategies — Resource Sharing
Low Power Design Strategies — Binary Number Representation
Techniques to Reduce Static Power:
State-dependent Leakage Power
1. Stack Effect
Subtle yet little-known low power design technique — Stack Effect
2. Power/Ground Gating
Low Power Design Techniques — Power Gating — Power Switching Cell
Low Power Design Techniques — Power Gating — Isolation Cell
Low Power Design Techniques — Power Gating — Retention Register
3. Multi-threshold Voltage CMOS Circuit
Low Power Techniques and Their Physical Implementation — Multi-threshold Voltage Technology
4. Body Bias
Low Power Technique: Body Bias
5. Transistor Sizing with Longer Channel Length
Easy Low Power Strategy | Transistor Sizing with Longer Channel Length
Techniques to Reduce Dynamic Power:
1. Clock Gating
Well-known low power technique | Clock Gating (CG) technology
Looking back — The history of Integrated Clock Gating Technology — Separated Clock Gating Technology
Memory Clock Gating Low Power — What considerations are there in the Floorplan and Placement stages?
Amazing Effects | Clock Gating Low Power — Auto Bound and Physical Aware Clock Gating
Integrated Clock Gating, Multi-level Clock Gating, Hierarchical Clock Gating, Formal Verification of Clock Gating
Testability Design of Clock Gating (DFT)
Formal Verification – How does Clock Gating handle?
Clock Gating Low Power — What tips are there in the Placement stage?
XOR Self-Gating and Design Compiler Topo Implementation | Sending Netease Cloud Course Coupons
2. Data Gating
Low Power Design Techniques of Data Gating and Operand Isolation
3. Multi VDD Circuit Technology
Low Power Design Techniques — Multi VDD
Low Power Design Techniques — Multi VDD — Level Shifter
4. Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
Overview of Voltage Scaling Techniques and Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS)
5. Multi-bit Flip-flop (MBFF)
Low Power Design Techniques — Multi-Bit Flip-Flop (MBFF) Technology

UPF CPF:

UPF and Low Power Design Implementation Example — Including UPF and DC Synthesis Script

CPF Application Example

PTPX Low Power Analysis Related:

PTPX Power Analysis Tutorial-1 Including Averaged Power Analysis Script

PTPX Power Analysis Tutorial-2 Including Time-Based Power Analysis Script

How to view PTPX generated power waveform files using nWave

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