Efficient Design of Variation-Resilient Ultra-Low Energy Digital Processors

Efficient Design of Variation-Resilient Ultra-Low Energy Digital Processors
Author: Hans Reyserhove
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030124851

This book enables readers to achieve ultra-low energy digital system performance. The author’s main focus is the energy consumption of microcontroller architectures in digital (sub)-systems. The book covers a broad range of topics extensively: from circuits through design strategy to system architectures. The result is a set of techniques and a context to realize minimum energy digital systems. Several prototype silicon implementations are discussed, which put the proposed techniques to the test. The achieved results demonstrate an extraordinary combination of variation-resilience, high speed performance and ultra-low energy.

Ultra-Low-Voltage Design of Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits

Ultra-Low-Voltage Design of Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits
Author: Nele Reynders
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319161369

This book focuses on increasing the energy-efficiency of electronic devices so that portable applications can have a longer stand-alone time on the same battery. The authors explain the energy-efficiency benefits that ultra-low-voltage circuits provide and provide answers to tackle the challenges which ultra-low-voltage operation poses. An innovative design methodology is presented, verified, and validated by four prototypes in advanced CMOS technologies. These prototypes are shown to achieve high energy-efficiency through their successful functionality at ultra-low supply voltages.

NANO-CHIPS 2030

NANO-CHIPS 2030
Author: Boris Murmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030183386

In this book, a global team of experts from academia, research institutes and industry presents their vision on how new nano-chip architectures will enable the performance and energy efficiency needed for AI-driven advancements in autonomous mobility, healthcare, and man-machine cooperation. Recent reviews of the status quo, as presented in CHIPS 2020 (Springer), have prompted the need for an urgent reassessment of opportunities in nanoelectronic information technology. As such, this book explores the foundations of a new era in nanoelectronics that will drive progress in intelligent chip systems for energy-efficient information technology, on-chip deep learning for data analytics, and quantum computing. Given its scope, this book provides a timely compendium that hopes to inspire and shape the future of nanoelectronics in the decades to come.

Low Power Designs in Nanodevices and Circuits for Emerging Applications

Low Power Designs in Nanodevices and Circuits for Emerging Applications
Author: Shilpi Birla
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000995178

This reference textbook discusses low power designs for emerging applications. This book focuses on the research challenges associated with theory, design, and applications towards emerging Microelectronics and VLSI device design and developments, about low power consumptions. The advancements in large-scale integration technologies are principally responsible for the growth of the electronics industry. This book is focused on senior undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in the field of electrical and electronics engineering, nanotechnology. This book: Discusses various low power techniques and applications for designing efficient circuits Covers advance nanodevices such as FinFETs, TFETs, CNTFETs Covers various emerging areas like Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Circuits and FPGAs and sensors Discusses applications like memory design for low power applications using nanodevices The number of options for ICs in control applications, telecommunications, high-performance computing, and consumer electronics continues to grow with the emergence of VLSI designs. Nanodevices have revolutionized the electronics market and human life; it has impacted individual life to make it more convenient. They are ruling every sector such as electronics, energy, biomedicine, food, environment, and communication. This book discusses various emerging low power applications using CMOS and other emerging nanodevices.

Low-Power Variation-Tolerant Design in Nanometer Silicon

Low-Power Variation-Tolerant Design in Nanometer Silicon
Author: Swarup Bhunia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1441974180

Design considerations for low-power operations and robustness with respect to variations typically impose contradictory requirements. Low-power design techniques such as voltage scaling, dual-threshold assignment and gate sizing can have large negative impact on parametric yield under process variations. This book focuses on circuit/architectural design techniques for achieving low power operation under parameter variations. We consider both logic and memory design aspects and cover modeling and analysis, as well as design methodology to achieve simultaneously low power and variation tolerance, while minimizing design overhead. This book will discuss current industrial practices and emerging challenges at future technology nodes.

VLSI-SoC: Opportunities and Challenges Beyond the Internet of Things

VLSI-SoC: Opportunities and Challenges Beyond the Internet of Things
Author: Michail Maniatakos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303015663X

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 25th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2017, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in August 2017. The 11 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 33 full papers presented at the conference. The papers cover a wide range of topics in VLSI technology and advanced research. They address the latest scientific and industrial results and developments as well as future trends in the field of System-on-Chip (SoC) Design. On the occasion of the silver jubilee of the VLSI-SoC conference series the book also includes a special chapter that presents the history of the VLSI-SoC series of conferences and its relation with VLSI-SoC evolution since the early 80s up to the present.

SRAM Design for Wireless Sensor Networks

SRAM Design for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Vibhu Sharma
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2012-07-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461440394

This book features various, ultra low energy, variability resilient SRAM circuit design techniques for wireless sensor network applications. Conventional SRAM design targets area efficiency and high performance at the increased cost of energy consumption, making it unsuitable for computation-intensive sensor node applications. This book, therefore, guides the reader through different techniques at the circuit level for reducing energy consumption and increasing the variability resilience. It includes a detailed review of the most efficient circuit design techniques and trade-offs, introduces new memory architecture techniques, sense amplifier circuits and voltage optimization methods for reducing the impact of variability for the advanced technology nodes.

Enabling the Internet of Things

Enabling the Internet of Things
Author: Massimo Alioto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2017-01-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319514822

This book offers the first comprehensive view on integrated circuit and system design for the Internet of Things (IoT), and in particular for the tiny nodes at its edge. The authors provide a fresh perspective on how the IoT will evolve based on recent and foreseeable trends in the semiconductor industry, highlighting the key challenges, as well as the opportunities for circuit and system innovation to address them. This book describes what the IoT really means from the design point of view, and how the constraints imposed by applications translate into integrated circuit requirements and design guidelines. Chapter contributions equally come from industry and academia. After providing a system perspective on IoT nodes, this book focuses on state-of-the-art design techniques for IoT applications, encompassing the fundamental sub-systems encountered in Systems on Chip for IoT: ultra-low power digital architectures and circuits low- and zero-leakage memories (including emerging technologies) circuits for hardware security and authentication System on Chip design methodologies on-chip power management and energy harvesting ultra-low power analog interfaces and analog-digital conversion short-range radios miniaturized battery technologies packaging and assembly of IoT integrated systems (on silicon and non-silicon substrates). As a common thread, all chapters conclude with a prospective view on the foreseeable evolution of the related technologies for IoT. The concepts developed throughout the book are exemplified by two IoT node system demonstrations from industry. The unique balance between breadth and depth of this book: enables expert readers quickly to develop an understanding of the specific challenges and state-of-the-art solutions for IoT, as well as their evolution in the foreseeable future provides non-experts with a comprehensive introduction to integrated circuit design for IoT, and serves as an excellent starting point for further learning, thanks to the broad coverage of topics and selected references makes it very well suited for practicing engineers and scientists working in the hardware and chip design for IoT, and as textbook for senior undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students ( familiar with analog and digital circuits).

Smart Systems Integration and Simulation

Smart Systems Integration and Simulation
Author: Nicola Bombieri
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319273922

This book-presents new methods and tools for the integration and simulation of smart devices. The design approach described in this book explicitly accounts for integration of Smart Systems components and subsystems as a specific constraint. It includes methodologies and EDA tools to enable multi-disciplinary and multi-scale modeling and design, simulation of multi-domain systems, subsystems and components at all levels of abstraction, system integration and exploration for optimization of functional and non-functional metrics. By covering theoretical and practical aspects of smart device design, this book targets people who are working and studying on hardware/software modelling, component integration and simulation under different positions (system integrators, designers, developers, researchers, teachers, students etc.). In particular, it is a good introduction to people who have interest in managing heterogeneous components in an efficient and effective way on different domains and different abstraction levels. People active in smart device development can understand both the current status of practice and future research directions. · Provides a comprehensive overview of smart systems design, focusing on design challenges and cutting-edge solutions; · Enables development of a co-simulation and co-design environment that accounts for the peculiarities of the basic subsystems and components to be integrated; · Describes development of modeling and design techniques, methods and tools that enable multi-domain simulation and optimization at various levels of abstraction and across different technological domains.

Analog Circuit Design for Process Variation-Resilient Systems-on-a-Chip

Analog Circuit Design for Process Variation-Resilient Systems-on-a-Chip
Author: Marvin Onabajo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461422965

This book describes several techniques to address variation-related design challenges for analog blocks in mixed-signal systems-on-chip. The methods presented are results from recent research works involving receiver front-end circuits, baseband filter linearization, and data conversion. These circuit-level techniques are described, with their relationships to emerging system-level calibration approaches, to tune the performances of analog circuits with digital assistance or control. Coverage also includes a strategy to utilize on-chip temperature sensors to measure the signal power and linearity characteristics of analog/RF circuits, as demonstrated by test chip measurements. Describes a variety of variation-tolerant analog circuit design examples, including from RF front-ends, high-performance ADCs and baseband filters; Includes built-in testing techniques, linked to current industrial trends; Balances digitally-assisted performance tuning with analog performance tuning and mismatch reduction approaches; Describes theoretical concepts as well as experimental results for test chips designed with variation-aware techniques.