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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Ultra-Low-Power Design: Device and Logic Design Approaches.- On-Chip Optical Interconnect for Low-Power.- Nanotechnologies for Low Power.- Static Leakage Reduction through Simulteneous VTT/TOX and State Assignment.- Energy-Efficient Shared Memory Architectures for Multi-Processor Systems-On-Chip.- Tuning Caches to Applications for Low-Energy Embedded Systems.- Reducing Energy Consumption in Chip Multiprocessors Using Workload Variations.- Architectures and Design Techniques for Energy Efficient Embedded DSP and Multimedia Processing.- Source-Level Models for Software Power Optimization.- Transmittance Scaling for Reducing Power Dissipation of a Backlit TFT-LCD.- Power-Aware Network Swapping for Wireless Palmtop PCS.- Energy-Efficient Network-On-Chip Design.- System Level Power Modeling and Simulation of High-End Industrial Network-On-Chip.- Energy-Aware Adaptations for End-to-End Videostreaming to Mobile Handheld Devices.