This document describes a mechanism for signaling the active and standby status of redundant Pseudowires (PWs) between their termination points. A set of Redundant PWs is configured between Provider Edge (PE) nodes in single-segment pseudowire (SS-PW) applications or between Terminating Provider Edge (T-PE) nodes in Multi-Segment Pseudowire (MS-PW) applications. In order for the PE/T-PE nodes t...

Leakage power has become an important contributing factor of power for the CMOS circuits in deep sub-micron process. MTCMOS is a very effective technique to reduce the leakage current of circuits in the standby mode. Placing a global sleep device is not practical and sleep device at fine grain level involves more number of sleep transistors and more routing space. Distributed MTCMOS is better t...

A 1.0 mm general-purpose sensor node platform with heterogeneous multi-layer structure is proposed. The sensor platform benefits from modularity by allowing the addition/removal of IC layers. A new low power C interface is introduced for energy efficient inter-layer communication with compatibility to commercial C protocols. A self-adapting power management unit is proposed for efficient batter...

This paper analyses the reliability of a cold standby system consisting of two repairable units, a switch and a repairman. At any time, one of the two units is operating while the other is on cold standby. The repairman may not always at the job site, or take vacation. We assume that shocks can attack the operating unit. The arrival times of the shocks follow a homogeneous Poisson process and t...

-out-ofsystems with cold standby units are typically studied for unit lifetime distributions that allow analytical tractability. Often, however, these distributions differ signi cantly from reality. In this paper, we present an analytical approach to compute the mean failure time for -out-ofsystems with a single cold standby unit for the wide class of lifetime distributions that can be captured...

Flash ADC is an important component for realization of high speed and low power devices in signal processing system .As technology scale down, leakage current becomes the most concerned factor. This paper reports the power gating technique to provide the reduction mechanism for suppressing the leakage current effectively during standby mode but it introduces ground bounce noise. We designed a “...

Offices have long been networked, but the home is becoming an increasingly electronic and networked place. As the public demands (and governments mandate) an energy-efficient home, and everything from TVs to printers and refrigerators becomes networked, the energy consumption of these devices becomes critical. Most of these networked edge devices spend the majority of their time idle, but still...