Techniques for Power and Reliability Optimization of CMOS Logic

Diril Abdulkadir Utku

ISBN 10: 3848409623 / ISBN 13: 9783848409624

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Techniques for Power and Reliability Optimization of CMOS Logic
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848409623
• ISBN 13: 9783848409624
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As the transistors became smaller in size and the systems became faster, issues like power consumption, signal integrity, soft error tolerance, and testing became serious challenges. There is an increasing demand to put CAD tools in the design flow to address these issues at every step of the design process. First part of this research investigates circuit level techniques to reduce power consumption in digital systems. In second part, improving soft error tolerance of digital systems is considered as a trade off problem between power and reliability and a power aware dynamic soft error tolerance control strategy is developed. The objective of this research is to provide CAD tools and circuit design techniques to optimize power consumption and to increase soft error tolerance of digital circuits. Multiple supply and threshold voltages are used to reduce power consumption. Variable supply and threshold voltages are used together with variable capacitances to develop a dynamic soft error tolerance control scheme.

About the Author

Dr. Diril completed his Ph.D. in 2005 at Georgia Institute of Technology on the subject of low power design and reliability of CMOS circuits. After finishing his Ph.D., he worked at NVIDIA in the power optimization team. Then he joined Vivante Corporation as a design engineer. He is currently the Director of Hardware Engineering at Vivante.