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2003 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'03)
KnapBind: An Area-Efficient Binding Algorithm for Low-leakage Datapaths
San Jose, California
October 13-October 15
ISBN: 0-7695-2025-1
Chandramouli Gopalakrishnan, University of South Florida, Tampa
Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida, Tampa
Low leakage power datapaths can be synthesized using Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) modules. MTCMOS modules can be turned ON or OFF, using sleep signals. The controller in a digital system can be automatically synthesized to generate these sleep signals to turn OFF idle modules, thus minimizing leakage power. In order to sustain performance, the sleep transistor needs to be sized to large widths. This leads to a significant area overhead. In this work, we propose a binding algorithm, based on the 0-1 Knapsack algorithm, to selectively bind modules in a datapath to MTCMOS modules, achieving the optimizing leakage power within a given area constraint. We present results for five data dominated DSP circuits, at 100nm technology node.
Citation:
Chandramouli Gopalakrishnan, Srinivas Katkoori, "KnapBind: An Area-Efficient Binding Algorithm for Low-leakage Datapaths," iccd, pp.430, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'03), 2003
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