Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom

This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.

Important topics include:

- Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation

- Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining

- Analysis of the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages

- Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages

- Verification for multiple voltage domains

- Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages

- Power gating design automation to reduce leakage

- Relationships among tatistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization

Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.