CS60054: Low Power Circuits And Systems

CS60054
Course name	Low Power Circuits And Systems
Offered by	Computer Science & Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Semester	Spring

Syllabus

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Basics of MOS circuits: MOS transistor structure and device modeling, MOS inverters, MOS combinational circuits â different logic families.Sources of power dissipation in CMOS circuits: static power dissipation â diode leakage power, subthreshold leakage power, gate and other tunnel currents; dynamic power dissipation â short circuit power, switching power, gliching power; degrees of freedom.Supply voltage scaling approaches: technology Level â feature size scaling, threshold voltage scaling; logic level â gate sizing for voltage scaling; architecture level â parallelism and pipelining; algorithm level â transformations to exploit concurrency; dynamic voltage scaling.Switched capacitance minimization appro-aches: system level â power down, system partitioning; algorithm level â concurrency, locality, regularity, data representation; architecture level â concurrency, signal correlation; logic level â gate sizing, logic styles; layout level â layout optimization; technology level â advanced packaging, SOI.Leakage power control techniques: threshold voltage scaling: MTCMOS, VTCMOS and Multiple-Vt CMOS circuits; gate sizing.Special Topics: adiabatic switching, battery aware synthesis.References1.Sung-Mo Kang, Yusuf Leblebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, Tata McGraw-Hill .2.Neil H. E. Weste and K. Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Addison-Wesley (Indian reprint).3.A. Bellamour, and M. I. Elmasri, Low Power VLSI CMOS Circuit Design, Kluwer Academic Press.4.Anantha P. Chandrakasan and Robert W. Brodersen, Low Power Digital CMOS Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers.5.Kaushik Roy and Sharat C. Prasad, LowPower CMOS VLSI Design, Wiley-Interscience.