Low Power Single Core CPU for a Dual Core Microcontroller

Microcontrollers that can provide higher performance while maintaining low power consumption is a key research area. Power aware high performance microcontrollers are critical in embedded system applications. Our paper mainly focuses on the low power implementation of a Dual Core Microcontroller. A Dual Core Microcontroller consumes less power and area than two coupled Single Core Microcontrollers. We have implemented a Low Power Single Core CPU for a Dual Core Microcontroller in Verilog HDL and synthesized the design using Synopsys Design Compiler and Xilinx 10.1. We have also given the experimental results for the low power techniques implemented.