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Low Power VLSI Design

Dr. T.V.K.Hanumantha Rao


Associate Professor,Dept. of ECE
NIT,Warangal
Book to be followed

• Low voltage,Low power VLSI Subsystems,


• K S Yeo,
• Koushik Roy
Introduction

• .The invention of transistor brought about a giant technological leap in Microelectronics.

. Compared with vacuum tube era which need several hundreds of anode voltage and a few
watts of power, transistor
has milli watts of power.

. With the advent of transistor and decades later power dissipation was given less
importance.

. Emphesis has been given to performance and miniarization though and power dissipation is
entirely neglected

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• . Battery operated applications drove low power electronics such as pocket calculators,

Hearing aids and implantable pace makers

. For applications long time battery is better.

. Power requirement reduction is vital for microelectronics technology.

. Number of functions and feature size shrink more and more.

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• .Power dissipation grows and heating and cooling worsen.

• Supply voltage decreges

. In effective colling degrades reliability

. Low battery aplications require low computational requirement

. The allications are notebook computer and digital personal communication services.
• in addition to microprocessor’s miniarization anf and speed.

sensitive screen.

. With today’s available tecnology speech is effected.

. Today power efficiencyis imortant parameter

. Minimizing power consumptionneeds effort at each phase of design process.


Sources of Power dissipation

.. There 3 types,

, Itwo are Dynamic power dissipation. It is due to signal transitions,

. 2. Short circuit dissipation

. 3. Static power dissipation

. First
. In first source of power dissipation, transition levels between 1 and 0 levels corresponding t

to charging and discharging capacitances at nodes.

.. Current flows in channel of MOS transistors and heat is produced and dissipated away.

.. This power dissipation is equal to supply voltage,

. Power dissipation of transitions is eual to square root of power sully voltage.


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. Short circuit current flows between suppy voltage and ground when both p – subnetwork and n –

subnetwork conduct

. When the input at gate is stable one of the subnetworks conducts there won’t be short c

ircuit current..

.. When output to input transition occurs both the subnetworks conduct for sometime..

. The interval depents on input and output transitions (rise and fall times)

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