scholarly journals Low Power Design of Video PHY Controller (2.0) for HDMI Protocol Using Unidirectional High Performance IO Standard

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
M F L Abdullah ◽  
Author(s):  
Behnam Ghavami

Purpose Power consumption is a top priority in high-performance asynchronous circuit design today. The purpose of this study is to provide a spatial correlation-aware statistical dual-threshold voltage design method for low-power design of template-based asynchronous circuits. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors proposed a statistical dual-threshold voltage design of template-based asynchronous circuits considering process variations with spatial correlation. The utilized circuit model is an extended Timed Petri-Net which captures the dynamic behavior of the asynchronous circuit with statistical delay and power values. To have a more comprehensive framework, the authors model the spatial correlation information of the circuit. The authors applied a genetic optimization algorithm that uses a two-dimensional graph to calculate the power and performance of each threshold voltage assignment. Findings Experimental results show that using this statistically aware optimization, leakage power of asynchronous circuits can be reduced up to 3X. The authors also show that the spatial correlation may lead to large errors if not being considered in the design of dual-threshold-voltage asynchronous circuits. Originality/value The proposed framework is the scheme giving a low-power design of asynchronous circuits compared to other schemes. The comparison exhibits that the proposed method has better results in terms of performance and power. To consider the process variations with spatial correlation, the authors apply the principle component analysis method to transform the correlated variables into uncorrelated ones.


Author(s):  
Mehdi Bagherizadeh ◽  
Mona Moradi ◽  
Mostafa Torabi

<p>Compressor cell is often placed in critical path of multiplier circuits to perform partial product summation. Therefore it plays a significant role in determining the entire performance of multiplier and digital system. Respecting to the necessity of low power design for portable electronic, designing a low power and high performance compressors seems to be a good solution to overcome of these problems for computations. In this paper a novel high performance four-to-two compressor cell is proposed using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs) technology. The new cell is based on Majority Function, NOR, and NAND gates. The main advantage of proposed design in comparison with former cells is the ease of obtaining CARRY output by means of Majority function. Simulations have been done with 32nm technology node using Synopsys HSPICE software. Simulation results confirm the priority of the proposed cell compared to other state-of-the-art four-to-two compressor cells.</p>


As innovation scaling is arriving at its points of confinement, new methodologies have been proposed for computational efficiency. Different techniques have been proposed with advancements in technology to model high-speed along with low power consumption and smaller area multipliers. For the radix-4 booth propagation algorithm for low-power and low complexity applications, an efficient approximate 8 bit redundant multiplier is used. To minimize the complication present in modified booth encoder, approximate Booth RB encoders have been introduced by modifying the truth table with incorrect bits, which resulted in a reduction of the power delay product. Approximate computing is a relevant technique for low power and high performance circuits as used in error-tolerant applications. Approximate or inexact computing is an attractive design methodology for low power design but accomplished by loosening up the necessity of precision. It becomes critical to maintain full accuracy to attain reduced power utilization. In this paper, the design of approximate redundant binary (RB) multipliers is studied and modified to build less complex multiplier with Radix-8 modified booth encoding technique to reduce area and complexities of architectures.


Author(s):  
Fadhilah Binti Noor Al Amin ◽  
Nabihah Ahmad ◽  
Siti Hawa Ruslan

<span>The rapid growth of the electronic system has become one of the challenges in the high performance of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design and has contributed to the evolution of Phase Locked Loop (PLL) system design as one of the inevitable and significant necessities in the modern days. This design focus on the development of PLL system that can operate at a high performance within the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) frequency but consume low power that may be useful for future device implementation in the communication system. All proposed sub modules of PLL is highly suitable for low power and high speed application as each of them consumes overall power consumption around 2 µW until 1 mW with frequency from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz. All the design architecture, schematic, simulation and analysis are implemented using Synopsys Tool in 90 nm CMOS technology. Through the overall analysis, it can be concluded that this proposed sub modules design of the PLL system has better performance compared to previous work in terms of power consumption and frequency.</span>


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