Power consumption is a key limitation in many high-speed and high-data-rate electronic systems today, ranging from mobile telecom to portable and desktop computing systems, especially when moving to nanometer technologies. Ultra Low-Power Electronics and Design offers to the reader the unique opportunity of accessing in an easy and integrated fashion a mix of tutorial material and advanced research results, contributed by leading scientists from academia and industry, covering the most hot and up-to-date issues in the field of the design of ultra low-power devices, systems and applications.

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Contributors. Preface. Introduction. 1. Ultra-low-power design: device and logic design approaches. 2. On-chip optical interconnect for low-power. 3. Nanotechnologies for low power. 4. Static leakage reduction through simultaneous Vt/Tox and state assignment. 5. Energy-efficient shared memory architectures for multi-processor systems-on-chip. 6. Tuning caches to applications for low-energy embedded systems. 7. Reducing energy consumption in chip multiprocessors using workload variations. 8. Architectures and design techniques for energy efficient embedded DSP and multimedia processing. 9. Source-level models for software power optimization. 10. Transmittance scaling for reducing power dissipation of a backlit TFT-LCD. 11. Power-aware network swapping for wireless palmtop PCs. 12. Energy efficient network-on-chip design. 13. System level power modeling and simulation of high-end industrial network-on-chip. 14. Energy aware adaptations for end-to-end video streaming to mobile handheld devices.