8th International Conference on VLSI Design
Wave pipelined architecture folding: a method to achieve low power and low area
New Delhi, India
January 04-January 07
ISBN: 0-8186-6905-5
Futuristic portable real-time personal communication systems demand low power and high performance simultaneously. This poses a serious challenge to the designers since low power and high performance are two conflicting requirements. In this paper we propose a method called Wave Pipelined Architecture Folding (WPAF) which can be used effectively to reduce power while maintaining the operational throughput. WPAF exploits logic style and architecture along with the clock-free wave pipelining scheme to achieve low power. The technique comes with an additional advantage of reduced chip area which is important from the cost point of view.
Index Terms:
pipeline processing; integrated circuit design; VLSI; digital integrated circuits; logic design; wave pipelined architecture folding; low power design; clock-free wave pipelining scheme; chip area reduction
Citation:
D. Ghosh, S.K. Nandy, "Wave pipelined architecture folding: a method to achieve low power and low area," vlsid, pp.184, 8th International Conference on VLSI Design, 1995