具效能和功率考虑之动态电压规划技术与自动化流程设计之实现
Dynamic Voltage Assignment Technique for Cell Based Design under Power and Performance Constraints
作者: 郑经华 ：逢甲大学电子工程学系，台中;
关键词: 低功率； 多电源区域； Low Power Design； Multi Voltage Domain
摘要:Abstract: Lowering
on selected blocks helps to reduce power significantly. Unfortunately, lowering the voltage also increases the delay of the gates in the design. Multi-voltage design is an effective way to reduce power consump- tion. High voltage is applied to the critical function or path, while low voltage is applied to non-critical paths. If the designer wants to choose different performance levels in the same design, designer needs to know how to program the voltage of the cell. This method reduces power consumption and not only maintains the same circuit performance but also saves power. In the proposed methodology of this paper, supply voltage applied to logic gates is programmable, and logic gates can be specified to high or low voltage domains according to operating system requirements. In order not to violate the delay time, the logic gates on the critical path require higher voltage. Lower voltage on the logic gates can be assigned to partial non-critical paths simultaneously. In the proposed method, the power switches possess the feature of flexible programming. They can easily be controlled according to the user requirement after chip manufacture. The potential of this design is that voltage domain can be switched to either high or low based on different design con- straints, e.g. voltage drop and temperature increase. The characteristic of this mechanism is programmable re-design of voltage domain after chip fabrication. The chip function proof this novel methodology is fully successful used in power-performance tradeoff application.
文章引用: 郑经华 (2013) 具效能和功率考虑之动态电压规划技术与自动化流程设计之实现。 电路与系统， 2， 30-37. doi: 10.12677/OJCS.2013.22006
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