fight the power!

gadelrab_finalS. GadelRab, D. Bond & D. Reynolds
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation

Fight The Power!
Power Reduction ideas for ASIC Designers and Tool Vendors

Fight the Power
Power reduction ideas for ASIC designers and tool providers

Serag GadelRab David Bond David Reynolds
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
603 March Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2K 2M5, Canada ABSTRACT Low-power design has always been an important discipline for battery-operated systems. Design for low power is now also recognized as an important goal for embedded systems where constraints on packaging, power supply and heat dissipation continue to add increasingly strict limits to the maximum amount of power consumed by ASICs. In this paper we discuss the sources of power consumption in modern ASICs. We then present several design strategi