In very deep submicron technologies (< 0.13 μm) the leakage power consumption becomes an important contribution to total power consumption. Consequently a new low-power design methodology will be required at circuit, architectural and system levels. This paper focuses on architecture comparison and aims at selecting the one with the minimum total power consumption by simultaneously optimizing s...

Multiplier is the most basic unit of any electronic hardware whether it is microprocessor in cell phone or any DSP’s processors for signal processing. So power dissipation by multiplier is the most important parameter which is needed to be taken care of. So a lot of researches have been made till now and lot of efforts has been made to decrease the power consumption of this basic unit. From las...

Capacitive accelerometers [1] have advantages such as zero static bias current, the capability of high sensitivity, and excellent thermal stability, making their use in low-power applications attractive. In this paper, an interface ASIC designed for a capacitive 3-axis micro-accelerometer [2] is presented. The die area and power dissipation are reduced by using time-multiplexed sampling and dut...

In order to estimate vegetation photosynthesis from remote sensing observations; some critical parameters need to be quantified. From all absorbed light; the plant needs to release any excess that is not used for photosynthesis; by non-photochemical quenching; by fluorescence emission and unregulated thermal dissipation. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) processes are controlled photoprotective...

This thesis project examines the design of a monolithic audio-band digital-to-analog (D/A) converter with the objective of achieving a high signal-to-noise ratio, low analog die area consumption, and low static power dissipation. Issues relating to system design, digital signal processing, sigma-delta modulation, D/A topology selection, and switched-capacitor filter design are covered. The Dire...

In the history, the major issues of the VLSI designer were area, cost, performance, and reliability; power concern was typically of only lesser importance. But more than the last few years’ power in the circuit is the major difficulty at the present days which is being faced by the very large scale integration industries. The power dissipation in several circuits is typically take place by the ...

The perceptron predictor is a highly accurate branch predictor. Unfortunately this high accuracy comes with high complexity. The high complexity is the result of the large number of computations required to speculate each branch outcome. In this work we aim at reducing the computational complexity for the perceptron predictor. We show that by eliminating unnecessary data from computations, we c...

This paper proposes a novel adiabatic static random access memory (SRAM) using memristor. The proposed SRAM which is a sinusoidal driving consists of one NMOS transistor and one memristor (i.e. 1T1M type). The proposed SRAM also is driven by an optimal voltage resulting in a decrease of energy dissipation. From SPICE simulation results, we show that the energy dissipation of proposed 1T1M-SRAM ...

This paper provides new approach for nonvolatile Memristor-based Content Addressable Memory MCAM cell using memristor with CMOS processing technology in order to get high speed read/write operations within high packing density and low power dissipation. The proposed cell uses only two memristors as a memory cell and CMOS controlling circuitry which uses latching to decrease time required for wr...

A direct approach to transistor sizing for minimizing the power consumption of a CMOS circuit under a delay constraint is presented. In contrast to the existing assumption that the power consumption of a static CMOS circuit is proportional to the active area of the circuit, it is shown that the power consumption is a convex function of the active area. Analytical formulation for the power dissi...