• DocumentCode
    3473450
  • Title

    Low power design using dual threshold voltage

  • Author

    Ho, Yen-Te ; Hwang, Ting-Ting

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    27-30 Jan. 2004
  • Firstpage
    205
  • Lastpage
    208
  • Abstract
    We study the reduction of static power consumption by dual threshold voltage assignment. Our goal is, under given timing constraint, to select a maximum number of gates working at high-Vth such that the total power gain is maximized. We propose a maximum independent set based slack assignment algorithm to select gates for high-Vth. The results show that our assignment algorithm can achieve about 68% improvement as compared to results without using dual Vth.
  • Keywords
    circuit optimisation; hardware description languages; logic design; logic gates; power consumption; dual threshold voltage assignment; independent set based slack assignment algorithm; low power design; static power consumption; CMOS process; Circuits; Computer science; Delay; Energy consumption; Fabrication; Sleep; Subthreshold current; Threshold voltage; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design Automation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2004. Asia and South Pacific
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8175-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASPDAC.2004.1337566
  • Filename
    1337566