Low-Power Digital VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems

Low-Power Digital VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems addresses both process technologies and device modeling. Power dissipation in CMOS circuits, several practical circuit examples, and low-power techniques are discussed. Low-voltage issues for digital CMOS and BiCMOS circuits are emphasized. The book also provides an extensive study of advanced CMOS subsystem design. A low-power design methodology is presented with various power minimization techniques at the circuit, logic, architecture and algorithm levels. Features: Low-voltage CMOS device modeling, technology files, design rules Switching activity concept, low-power guidelines to engineering practice Pass-transistor logic families Power dissipation of I/O circuits Multi- and low-VT CMOS logic, static power reduction circuit techniques State of the art design of low-voltage BiCMOS and CMOS circuits Low-power techniques in CMOS SRAMS and DRAMS Low-power on-chip voltage down converter design Numerous advanced CMOS subsystems (e.g. adders, multipliers, data path, memories, regular structures, phase-locked loops) with several design options trading power, delay and area Low-power design methodology, power estimation techniques Power reduction techniques at the logic, architecture and algorithm levels More than 190 circuits explained at the transistor level.

Table of Contents:
1 Low-Power VLSI Design: An Overview.- 1.1 Why Low-Power?.- 1.2 Low-Power Applications.- 1.3 Low-Power Design Methodology.- 1.4 This Book.- References.- 2 Low-Voltage Process Technology.- 2.1 CMOS Process Technology.- 2.2 Bipolar Process Technology.- 2.3 Isolation in CMOS and Bipolar Technologies.- 2.4 CMOS and Bipolar Processes Convergence.- 2.5 BiCMOS Technology.- 2.6 Complementary BiCMOS Technology.- 2.7 BiCMOS Design Rules.- 2.8 Silicon On Insulator.- 2.9 Chapter Summary.- References.- 3 Low-Voltage Device Modeling.- 3.1 MOSFET Structure and Operation.- 3.2 SPICE Models of the MOS Transistor.- 3.3 CMOS Low-Voltage Analytical Model.- 3.4 CMOS Power Supply Voltage Scaling.- 3.5 Modeling of the Bipolar Transistor.- References.- 4 Low-Voltage Low-Power VLSI CMOS Circuit Design.- 4.1 CMOS Inverter: DC Characteristics.- 4.2 CMOS Inverter: Switching Characteristics.- 4.3 Power Dissipation.- 4.4 Capacitance Estimation.- 4.5 CMOS static Logic Design.- 4.6 CMOS Logic Styles.- 4.7 Clocking.-4.8 Pass-Transistor Logic Families.- 4.9 I/O Circuits.- 4.10 Low-Power Circuit Techniques.- 4.11 Adiabatic Computing.- 4.12 Chapter Summary.- References.- 5 Low-Voltage VLSI BiCMOS Circuit Design.- 5.1 Conventional BiCMOS Logic.- 5.2 BYNMOS Logic Family.- 5.3 Low-Voltage BiCMOS families.- 5.4 Low-Voltage BiCMOS Applications.- 5.5 Chapter Summary.- References.- 6 Low-Power CMOS Random Access Memory Circuits.- 6.1 Static RAM (SRAM).- 6.2 Dynamic RAM.- 6.3 On-Chip Voltage Down Converter.- 6.4 Chapter Summary.- References.- 7 VLSI CMOS Subsystem Design.- 7.1 Parallel Adders.- 7.2 Parallel Multipliers.- 7.3 Data Path.- 7.4 Regular Structures.- 7.5 Phase Locked Loops.- 7.6 Chapter Summary.- References.- 8 Low-Power VLSI Design Methodology.- 8.1 LP Physical Design.- 8.2 LP Gate-Level Design.- 8.3 LP Architecture-Level Design.- 8.4 Algorithmic-Level Power Reduction.- 8.5 Power Estimation Techniques.- 8.6 Chapter Summary.- References.- Reference.