Techniques for Improving Design Performance of VLSI Circuits and Systems

Optimization Techniques for Low Power VLSI Circuits

Power dissipation has emerged as an important design parameter in the design of microelectronic circuits, especially in portable computing and personal communication applications. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art optimization methods that target low power dissipation in VLSI circuits. Optimizations at the circuit, logic, architectural and system levels are considered.

Practical Techniques for Improving the Performance of Polymeric Membranes and Processes for Protein Separation and Purification

Protein separation and purification technologies play an essential role in various industries including but not limited to pharmaceuticals, dairy as well as the food sector. Accordingly, a wide variety of techniques such as chromatography and electrophoresis has been developed and utilized extensively over the years for this purpose. Despite their widespread acceptance, conventiona...

Analog Design Issues in Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

Algorithms Transformation Techniques for Low-Power Wireless VLSI Systems Design

This paper presents an overview of algorithm transformation techniques and discusses their role in the developm ent of hardware-ef® cient and low-power VLSI algorithms and architectures for communication systems. Algorithm transformation techniques such as retiming, look-ahead and relaxed pipelining, parallel processing, folding, unfolding, and strength reduction are described. These techniques...

Stage specialization for design and analysis of flotation circuits

This paper presents a new approach for flotation circuit design. Initially, it was proven numerically and analytically that in order to achieve the highest recovery in different circuit configurations, the best equipment must be placed at the beginning stage of the flotation circuits. The size of the entering particles and the types of streams including pulp and froth were considered as the bas...