Designers developing the low voltage, low power chips that enable small, portable devices, face a very particular set of challenges. This monograph details design techniques for the low power circuitry required by the many miniaturized business and consumer products driving the electronics market.

Low-Power Digital VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems addresses both process technologies and device modeling. Power dissipation in CMOS circuits, several practical circuit examples, and low-power techniques are discussed. Low-voltage issues for digital CMOS and BiCMOS circuits are emphasized. The book also provides an extensive study of advanced CMOS subsystem design. A low-power design methodology is presented with various power minimization techniques at the circuit, logic, architecture and algorithm levels. Features: Low-voltage CMOS device modeling, technology files, design rules Switching activity concept, low-power guidelines to engineering practice Pass-transistor logic families Power dissipation of I/O circuits Multi- and low-VT CMOS logic, static power reduction circuit techniques State of the art design of low-voltage BiCMOS and CMOS circuits Low-power techniques in CMOS SRAMS and DRAMS Low-power on-chip voltage down converter design Numerous advanced CMOS subsystems (e.g. adders, multipliers, data path, memories, regular structures, phase-locked loops) with several design options trading power, delay and area Low-power design methodology, power estimation techniques Power reduction techniques at the logic, architecture and algorithm levels More than 190 circuits explained at the transistor level.

Geared to the needs of engineers and designers in the field, this unique volume presents a remarkably detailed analysis of one of the hottest and most compelling research topics in microelectronics today - namely, low-voltage CMOS VLSI circuit techniques for VLSI systems. It features complete guidelines to diversified low-voltage and low-power circuit techniques, emphasizing the role of submicron and CMOS processing technology and device modeling in the circuit designs of low-voltage CMOS VLSI.

For upper level and graduate level Electrical and Computer Engineering courses in Integrated Circuit Design as well as professional circuit designers, engineers and researchers working in portable wireless communications hardware. This book presents the fundamentals of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) and Bipolar compatible Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology, as well as the latest technological advances in the field. It discusses the concepts and techniques of new integrated circuit design for building high performance and low power circuits and systems for current and future very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) and giga-scale-integration (GSI) applications. CMOS/BiCMOS ULSI: Low-Voltage Low-Power is an essential resource for every professional moving toward lower voltage, lower power, and higher performance VLSI circuits and subsystems design.

Designers developing the low voltage, low power chips that enable small, portable devices, face a very particular set of challenges. This monograph details design techniques for the low power circuitry required by the many miniaturized business and consumer products driving the electronics market.

Low-power and low-energy VLSI has become an important issue in today's consumer electronics.This book is a collection of pioneering applied research papers in low power VLSI design and technology.A comprehensive introductory chapter presents the current status of the industry and academic research in the area of low power VLSI design and technology.Other topics cover logic synthesis, floorplanning, circuit design and analysis, from the perspective of low power requirements.The readers will have a sampling of some key problems in this area as the low power solutions span the entire spectrum of the design process. The book also provides excellent references on up-to-date research and development issues with practical solution techniques.

A practical, comprehensive survey of SOI CMOS devices and circuitsfor microelectronics engineers The microelectronics industry is becoming increasingly dependent onSOI CMOS VLSI devices and circuits. This book is the first toaddress this important topic with a practical focus on devices andcircuits. It provides an up-to-date survey of the current knowledgeregarding SOI device behaviors and describes state-of-the-artlow-voltage CMOS VLSI analog and digital circuit techniques. Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits covers the entirefield, from basic concepts to the most advanced ideas. Topicsinclude: * SOI device behavior: fundamental and floating body effects, hotcarrier effects, sensitivity, reliability, self-heating, breakdown,ESD, dual-gate devices, accumulation-mode devices, short channeleffects, and narrow channel effects * Low-voltage SOI digital circuits: floating body effects, DRAM,SRAM, static logic, dynamic logic, gate array, CPU, frequencydivider, and DSP * Low-voltage SOI analog circuits: op amps, filters, ADC/DAC,sigma-delta modulators, RF circuits, VCO, mixers, low-noiseamplifiers, and high-temperature circuits With over 300 references to the state of the art and over 300important figures on low-voltage SOI CMOS devices and circuits,this volume serves as an authoritative, reliable resource forengineers designing these circuits in high-tech industries.

This is the first book devoted to low power circuit design, and its authors have been among the first to publish papers in this area.· Low-Power CMOS VLSI Design· Physics of Power Dissipation in CMOS FET Devices· Power Estimation· Synthesis for Low Power· Design and Test of Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits· Low-Power Static Ram Architectures· Low-Energy Computing Using Energy Recovery Techniques· Software Design for Low Power

This self-contained book addresses the need for analysis, characterization, estimation, and optimization of the various forms of power dissipation in the presence of process variations of nano-CMOS technologies. The authors show very large-scale integration (VLSI) researchers and engineers how to minimize the different types of power consumption of digital circuits. The material deals primarily with high-level (architectural or behavioral) energy dissipation.