JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• 1. Identify the sources of power dissipation in digital IC systems & understand the impact of power on system performance and reliability.
• 2. Characterize and model power consumption & understand the basic analysis methods.
• 3. Understand leakage sources and reduction techniques.

UNIT - I

Technology & Circuit Design Levels: Sources of power dissipation in digital ICs, degree of freedom, recurring themes in low-power, emerging low power approaches, dynamic dissipation in CMOS, effects of Vdd & Vt on speed, constraints on Vt reduction, transistor sizing & optimal gate oxide thickness, impact of technology scaling, technology innovations.

UNIT - II

Low Power Circuit Techniques: Power consumption in circuits, flip-flops & latches, high capacitance nodes, energy recovery, reversible pipelines, high performance approaches. Low Power Clock Distribution: Power dissipation in clock distribution, single driver

UNIT - III

Logic Synthesis for Low Power estimation techniques: Power minimization techniques, low power arithmetic components- circuit design styles, adders, multipliers.

UNIT - IV

Low Power Memory Design: Sources & reduction of power dissipation in memory subsystem, sources of power dissipation in DRAM & SRAM, low power DRAM circuits, low power SRAM circuits.

UNIT - V

Low Power Microprocessor Design System: power management support, architectural trade offs for power, choosing the supply voltage, low-power clocking, implementation problem for low power, comparison of microprocessors for power & performance.

TEXTBOOKS

• 1. P. Rashinkar, Paterson and L. Singh, “Low Power Design Methodologies”, Kluwer Academic, 2002
• 2. Kaushik Roy, Sharat Prasad, “Low power CMOS VLSI circuit design”, John Wiley sons Inc.,2000.

REFERENCES:

• 1. J.B.Kulo and J.H Lou, “Low voltage CMOS VLSI Circuits”, Wiley, 1999.
• 2. A.P.Chandrasekaran and R.W.Broadersen, “Low power digital CMOS design”, Kluwer,1995
• 3. Gary Yeap, “Practical low power digital VLSI design”, Kluwer, 1998. R19 M. TECH. ES & VLSI DESIGN/VLSI & ES M.TECH.- I YEAR- II SEMESTER EMBEDDED SYSTEMS & VLSI DESIGN/VLSI & EMBEDDED SYSTEMS