Low Power - VLSI

The book contains: Concept of Introduction, Historical background, why low power, sources of power dissipations, low-power design methodologies. MOS Transistors: introduction, the structure of MOS Transistor, the Fluid model, Modes of operation of MOS Transistor, Electrical characteristics of MOS Transistors, MOS Transistors as a switch. MOS Inverters: introduction, inverter and its characteristics, configurations, inverter ratio in different situations, switching characteristics, delay parameters, driving parameters, driving large capacitive loads. MOS Combinational Circuits: introduction, Pass-Transistor logic, Gate logic, MOS Dynamic Circuits. Sources of Power Dissipation: introduction, short-circuit power dissipation, switching power dissipation, glitching power dissipation, leakage power dissipation. Supply voltage scaling for low power: introduction, device features size scaling, architecture-level approaches, voltage scaling, multilevel voltage scaling, challenges, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling.