Low-power process technologies and device modeling are addressed Power dissipation in CMOS circuits Several practical examples and low-power techniques are discussed. Low-voltage issues for digital CMOS and BiCMOS circuits are emphasized. This book also provides an extensive study of advanced CMOS subsystem design. A low-power design methodology with various power minimization techniques, at the circuit, logic, architecture and algorithm levels, is resented.

Salient Features

• Low-voltage CMOS device modeling technology files, design rules


• Switching activity concept, low-power guidelines to engineering practice Pass-transistor logic families


• Power dissipation of I/O circuits


• Multi-and –low Vt CMOS logic, power reduction circuit techniques


• State-of-the-art design of low-voltage BiCMOS and CMOS circuits


• Low-power techniques in CMOS SRAMs and DRAMs


• Low-power on-chip voltage down converter design


• Numerous advanced CMOS subsystems (eg. Adders, multipliers, data path, memories, regular structures, phase locked loops) with several design options trading power, delay and area


• Low-Power design methodology, Power estimation techniques


• Power reduction techniques at the logic architecture and algorithm levels


• More than 190 circuits explained at the transistor level