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.

Inhalt

Preface. 1. Low-Power VLSI Design: An Overview. 2. Low-Voltage Process Technology. 3. Low-Voltage Device Modeling. 4. Low-Voltage Low-Power VLSI CMOS Circuit Design. 5. Low-Voltage VLSI BiCMOS Circuit Design. 6. Low-Power CMOS Random Access Memory Circuits. 7. VLSI CMOS Subsystem Design. 8. Low-Power VLSI Design Methodology. References. Index.