The Value Of Adaptive Body Biasing
By Bhanu Kapoor Although the use of power gating techniques is essential to manage standby leakage power, it brings in a host of new design and verification issues. This list of new design and...
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Getting Real About Power Management Verification
By Bhanu Kapoor SoCs that are used in consumer electronics utilize power management techniques that require control of voltage sources. We have discussed the need for power-aware simulation for...
View ArticleTough Road Ahead For Small IP Vendors
By Bhanu Kapoor The IP business is a difficult one. The vendors who typically supply to larger semiconductor companies face thin margins and different IP requirements to be supported across their...
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Fire In The Hole?
By Bhanu Kapoor At the 2001 ISSCC, Pat Gelsinger, then Senior VP at Intel, had observed the following in connection with the growing issue of chip power density: “Ten years from now microprocessors...
View ArticleLow-Power Solutions At DAC
By Bhanu Kapoor Power is the main driver of semiconductor process technology related advances recently. One would expect a similar focus in the electronic design automation industry to help designers...
View ArticlePowerbenches
By Bhanu Kapoor Today, in the era of IPs and SoCs, verification consumes up to 70% of the design effort. Most of the rest of the design effort is focused on iterations related to meeting the...
View ArticleIntel’s Power Play
By Bhanu Kapoor With the Ivy Bridge processor, Intel claims half the power at the same performance level or double the performance with the same power consumption as the Sandy Bridge processor. The...
View ArticleThe Bigger Problem
By Bhanu Kapoor Getting power management features already built into chips to be fully utilized is indeed the bigger problem. The features here refer to hooks provided by power management techniques...
View ArticleNear-Threshold Computing
By Bhanu Kapoor There were two main contributing factors to power becoming a big problem (“The Power Wall”) starting around the 65nm process technology. First, the fast-growing leakage component became...
View ArticleImproved Efficiency
By Bhanu Kapoor We constantly hear about process technology advances and their impact on power consumption of ICs, but the power management techniques have remained the same over last few process...
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