scholarly journals Low Power Checks in Multi Voltage Designs

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
K. R. Haripriya ◽  
Ajay Somkuwar ◽  
Laxmi Kumre
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Power Gating ◽  
Low Power Architectures

Leakage power consumption has been almost a serious problem these days in semiconductor industry. Many low power techniques like multi-voltage, power gating etc. are deployed to improve power saving. Power aware verification hence has become a critical issue now. Static low power verification has been developed to verify that low power architectures are designed in correct approach meeting all electrical rules in SoC. The UPF(Unified Power Format) is the standardized format that has all power intent information and can be used throughout the design flow to ensure that the power specification is intact. Firstly, this paper describes the special cells and its operation used in low power techniques. Secondly it describes the major checks examined at each stage using Synopsys VCLP tool and finally debugging with the tool and conclusion.

Designing dual-chirality and multi-Vt repeaters for performance optimization of 32 nm interconnects

Circuit World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Afreen Khursheed ◽  
Kavita Khare
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotube ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dynamic Power ◽  
Cu Interconnect ◽  
Circuits Vlsi

Purpose This paper is an unprecedented effort to resolve the performance issue of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI) interconnects encountered because of the scaling of device dimensions. Repeater interpolation technique is an effective approach for enhancing speed of interconnect network. Proposed buffers as repeater are modeled by using dual chirality multi-Vt technology to reduce delay besides mitigating average power consumption. Interconnects modeled with carbon nanotube (CNT) technology are compared with copper interconnect for various lengths. Buffer circuits are designed with both CNT and metal oxide semiconductor technology for comparison by using various combination of (CMOSFET repeater-Cu interconnect) and (CNTFET repeater-CNT interconnect). Compared to conventional buffer, ProposedBuffer1 saves dynamic power by 84.86%, leakage power by 88% and offers reduction in delay by 72%. ProposedBuffer2 brings about dynamic power saving of 99.94%, leakage power saving of 93%, but causes delay penalty. Simulation using Stanford SPICE model for CNT and silicon-field effective transistor berkeley short-channel IGFET Model4 (BSIM4) predictive technology model (PTM) for MOS is done in H simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis for 32 nm. Design/methodology/approach Usually, the dynamic power consumption dominates the total power, while the leakage power has a negligible effect. But with the scaling of device technology, leakage power has become one of the important factors of consideration in low power design techniques. Various strategies are explored to suppress the leakage power in standby mode. The adoption of a multi-threshold design strategy is an effective approach to improve the performance of buffer circuits without compromising on the delay and area overhead. Unlike MOS technology, to implement multi-Vt transistors in case of CNT technology is quite easy. It can be achieved by varying diameter of carbon nanotubes using chirality control. Findings An unprecedented approach is taken for optimizing the delay and power dissipation and hence drastically reducing energy consumption by keeping proper harmony between wire technology and repeater-buffer technology. This paper proposes two novel ultra-low power buffers (PB1 and PB2) as repeaters for high-speed interconnect applications in portable devices. PB1 buffer implemented with high-speed CML technique nested with multi-threshold (Vt) technology sleep transistor so as to improve the speed along with a reduction in standby power consumption. PB2 is judicially implemented by inserting separable sized, dual chirality P type carbon nanotube field effective transistors. The HSpice simulation results justify the correctness of schemes. Originality/value Result analysis points out that compared to conventional Cu interconnect, the CNT interconnects paired with Proposed CNTFET buffer designs are more energy efficient. PB1 saves dynamic power by 84.86%, reduces propagation delay by 72% and leakage power consumption by 88%. PB2 brings about dynamic power saving of 99.4%, leakage power saving of 93%, with improvement in speed by 52%. This is mainly because of the fact that CNT interconnect offers low resistance and CNTFET drivers have high mobility and ballistic mode of operation.

Efficient Instruction and Data Caching for High Performance Embedded Processors

1970 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
A. Ferrerón Labari ◽  
D. Suárez Gracia ◽  
V. Viñals Yúfera
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Interconnection Networks ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
On Chip

In the last years, embedded systems have evolved so that they offer capabilities we could only find before in high performance systems. Portable devices already have multiprocessors on-chip (such as PowerPC 476FP or ARM Cortex A9 MP), usually multi-threaded, and a powerful multi-level cache memory hierarchy on-chip. As most of these systems are battery-powered, the power consumption becomes a critical issue. Achieving high performance and low power consumption is a high complexity challenge where some proposals have been already made. Suarez et al. proposed a new cache hierarchy on-chip, the LP-NUCA (Low Power NUCA), which is able to reduce the access latency taking advantage of NUCA (Non-Uniform Cache Architectures) properties. The key points are decoupling the functionality, and utilizing three specialized networks on-chip. This structure has been proved to be efficient for data hierarchies, achieving a good performance and reducing the energy consumption. On the other hand, instruction caches have different requirements and characteristics than data caches, contradicting the low-power embedded systems requirements, especially in SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) environments. We want to study the benefits of utilizing small tiled caches for the instruction hierarchy, so we propose a new design, ID-LP-NUCAs. Thus, we need to re-evaluate completely our previous design in terms of structure design, interconnection networks (including topologies, flow control and routing), content management (with special interest in hardware/software content allocation policies), and structure sharing. In CMP environments (chip multiprocessors) with parallel workloads, coherence plays an important role, and must be taken into consideration.

Green Semicondoctor Design Techniques and Challanges

2011 ◽  
pp. 404-411
Author(s):  
Somesh Rajain ◽  
Chetan Shingala ◽  
Ekata Mehul
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Power Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Low Power Design ◽  
Clock Gating ◽  
Consumer Device ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2 ◽  
Design Techniques

The large emission of Carbon dioxide (CO2) is not only affecting our ecology but also affecting human life. In schools, offices, factory and crowded railway/bus stations i.e crowded places with insufficient ventilations CO2 affects human life most. In a closed environment like school, If CO2 level starts raising above 700 parts per million (ppm) people will feel objectionable body odors and as it increase further people will feel very uncomfortable, dizzy and have headache etc. Our goal is to reduce CO2 emission and lower global warming. In Semiconductor Industry as the digital technology grows, the functionality of our electronics devices (For example: - Mobile phone, PC’s, home appliances etc) is constantly improves and mean while the demand for electronic devices to be more environment friendly is increasing. So we have to design systems with Low power consumption to curtail down green house gas emission as well as low power design are also a requirement of today’s market. The usage of mobile device in all kinds of applications is increasing day by day. These applications and corresponding devices also have their power requirements. The demand for mobile consumer device has made the power management the number one consideration in today‘s system design. To increase battery life, system chip designer needs to adopt an aggressive power management technique which includes multi voltage Design Island, power gating, dynamic voltage, frequency scaling, clock gating etc in the system. Adding all these greatly complicates the verification for the chip. Normally the designer neglects the implementation of power saving techniques due to the tradeoff between power reduction and verification costs. The costs become more important in terms of business, which leads to more power consumption. Those details can still be implemented provided we use right kind of tools & techniques that are also combined with design experience. In this chapter the focus is to firstly describe low power design techniques, its verification challenges and its solutions followed by the case study. It also guides for the selection of programmable device & RTL Core design criteria. To make green electronics devices we have to design system with low power design techniques.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of SRAM cell with leakage power reduction approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 863
Author(s):  
Damarla Paradhasaradhi ◽  
Kollu Jaya Lakshmi ◽  
Yadavalli Harika ◽  
Busa Ravi Teja Sai ◽  
Golla Jayanth Krishna
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Power Dissipation ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Power Reduction ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Access Time ◽  
Chip Area ◽  
Sram Cell

In deep sub-micron technologies, high number of transistors is mounted onto a small chip area where, SRAM plays a vital role and is considered as a major part in many VLSI ICs because of its large density of storage and very less access time. Due to the demand of low power applications the design of low power and low voltage memory is a demanding task. In these memories majority of power dissipation depends on leakage power. This paper analyzes the basic 6T SRAM cell operation. Here two different leakage power reduction approaches are introduced to apply for basic 6T SRAM. The performance analysis of basic SRAM cell, SRAM cell using drowsy-cache approach and SRAM cell using clamping diode are designed at 130nm using Mentor Graphics IC Studio tool. The proposed SRAM cell using clamping diode proves to be a better power reduction technique in terms of power as compared with others SRAM structures. At 3.3V, power saving by the proposed SRAM cell is 20% less than associated to basic 6T SRAM Cell.

Research of Low Power Design Strategy Based on IEEE 1801 Unified Power Format

2014 ◽  
Vol 981 ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Shu Ping Cui ◽  
Chuang Xie
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Circuit Design ◽  
High Power ◽  
Low Power Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
High Power Consumption

Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important aspect of circuit design. High power consumption can lead to high machine temperature, short battery life which makes laptop electronics difficult to be widely used. IEEE 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) is designed to express power intent for electronic systems and components .This paper first introduces the power principles, puts forward the approaches to reduce power consumption according to UPF, and then demonstrates the Synopsys design flow based on UPF, finally gives the power report and makes a conclusion.

scholarly journals ROBUST AND SECURE S-BOX DESIGN WITH GATED HYBRID ENERGY RECOVERY LOGIC (GHERL) FOR IOT APPLICATIONS

10.6036/10108 ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
RUBAN GLADWIN ◽  
NEHRU KASTHURI
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Power Gating ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Adiabatic Logic

The smart Internet of Things (IoT) network relies heavily on data transmission over wireless channels. Hence, it should be designed to be robust against the attacks from hackers and antagonists. The confidentiality in IoT devices is directly proportional to the complexity and power consumption. To mitigate these issues, this paper proposes a secure Substitution Box (S-Box) design that is exploited in the IoT for cyber security applications. The S-Box is based on Gated Hybrid Energy Recovery Logic (GHERL) that is an amalgamation of two different techniques as adiabatic logic and power gating. Adiabatic logic is preferred to attain high energy efficiency in practical applications such as portable and handheld devices. Power gating technique is preferred to reduce the leakage power and energy consumption. The proposed GHERL XOR gate and S-Box are implemented with 125nm technology in Tanner EDA tool. The consequences of the experiments exhibits that the novel S-Box design with GHERL XOR decreases the power consumption by 1.76%, 35.26%, 36.81%, 41.01% and reduces the leakage power by 58.54%, 20.27%, 27.38%, 13.63% when compared with the existing techniques such as S-Box with sleep transistor, dual sleep transistor, dual-stack and sleepy keeper approach. Keywords: Adiabatic logic, Power Gating, Internet of Things, S-Box

scholarly journals Design of Low Power Transceiver on Spartan-3 and Spartan-6 FPGA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12S2) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Power Dissipation ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Total Power ◽  
Voltage Supply ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Eda Tools

In this research work, a low power transceiver is designed using Spartan-3 and Spartan-6 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). In this work, a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) device is used as a transceiver. The implementation of UART is possible with EDA tools called Xilinx 14.1 and the results of the power analysis are targeted on Spartan-3 and Spartan-6 FPGA. The variation of different power of chips that are fabricated on FPGA for e.g., Input/Output (I/O) power consumption, Leakage power dissipation, Signal power utilization, Logic power usage, and the use of Total power, is observed by changing the voltage supply. This research work shows how the change in voltage influence the power consumption of UART on Spartan-3 and Spartan-6 FPGA devices. It is observed that Spartan-6 is found to be more powerefficient as voltage supply increases.

Green Semicondoctor Design Techniques and Challanges

2011 ◽  
pp. 342-350
Author(s):  
Somesh Rajain ◽  
Chetan Shingala ◽  
Ekata Mehul
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Power Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Low Power Design ◽  
Clock Gating ◽  
Consumer Device ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2 ◽  
Design Techniques

The large emission of Carbon dioxide (CO2) is not only affecting our ecology but also affecting human life. In schools, offices, factory and crowded railway/bus stations i.e crowded places with insufficient ventilations CO2 affects human life most. In a closed environment like school, If CO2 level starts raising above 700 parts per million (ppm) people will feel objectionable body odors and as it increase further people will feel very uncomfortable, dizzy and have headache etc. Our goal is to reduce CO2 emission and lower global warming. In Semiconductor Industry as the digital technology grows, the functionality of our electronics devices (For example: - Mobile phone, PC’s, home appliances etc) is constantly improves and mean while the demand for electronic devices to be more environment friendly is increasing. So we have to design systems with Low power consumption to curtail down green house gas emission as well as low power design are also a requirement of today’s market. The usage of mobile device in all kinds of applications is increasing day by day. These applications and corresponding devices also have their power requirements. The demand for mobile consumer device has made the power management the number one consideration in today‘s system design. To increase battery life, system chip designer needs to adopt an aggressive power management technique which includes multi voltage Design Island, power gating, dynamic voltage, frequency scaling, clock gating etc in the system. Adding all these greatly complicates the verification for the chip. Normally the designer neglects the implementation of power saving techniques due to the tradeoff between power reduction and verification costs. The costs become more important in terms of business, which leads to more power consumption. Those details can still be implemented provided we use right kind of tools & techniques that are also combined with design experience. In this chapter the focus is to firstly describe low power design techniques, its verification challenges and its solutions followed by the case study. It also guides for the selection of programmable device & RTL Core design criteria. To make green electronics devices we have to design system with low power design techniques.

scholarly journals An Energy-Efficient Strategy for Microcontrollers

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2581
Author(s):  
Huanjie Wu ◽  
Chun Chen ◽  
Kai Weng
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Clock Frequency ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency ◽  
Time Required

Power saving has always been an important research direction in the field of microcontrollers. Dozens of low power technologies have been proposed to achieve the goal of reducing their power consumption. However, most of them focus mostly on lowering the consumption rate. It is well known that energy is the integral of power over time. Thus, our view is that both power and time should be carefully considered to achieve better energy efficiency. We reviewed some commonly used low power technologies and proposed our assumptions and strategy for improving energy efficiency. A series of test sets are designed to validate our hypotheses for improving energy efficiency. The experimental results suggest that time has no less impact on energy consumption than power. To support the operation of the processor, some peripheral components consume a constant amount of power regardless of the clock frequency, but the power consumption will be reduced when the processor enters low-power modes. This results in some interesting phenomena that are different from the usual thinking that energy can be saved by increasing processor clock frequency. For STM32F407 and Xtensa LX6 processors, this article also analyzes and calculates the minimum sleep time required for achieving energy saving based on our analytical models. Our energy efficiency strategy has been verified, and in some cases, it can indeed improve energy efficiency. We also proposed some suggestions on hardware design and software development for better energy efficiency.

scholarly journals DESIGN &ANALYSIS OF DUAL STACK METHOD FOR FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES

2015 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
P. RAVALI TEJA ◽  
D. AJAY KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Vlsi Design ◽  
Design Analysis ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Power Gating ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Power Vlsi Design ◽  
Future Technologies

As low power circuits are most popular now a days as the scaling increase the leakage power in the circuit also increases rapidly so for removing these kind of leakages and to provide a better power efficiency we are using many types of power gating techniques. In this paper we are going to analyse the different types of flip-flops using different types of power gated circuits using low power VLSI design techniques and we are going to display the comparison results between different nanometer technologies. The NMOS1mulations were done using Microwind Layout Editor & DSCH software and the results were given below.

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