Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: Auditorium A

SESSION 32
  Multi-Voltage, Multi-Threshold Design
  Chair: Rajendran Panda - Motorola, Inc., Austin, TX
  Organizers: Renu Mehra, Sarma Vrudhula

  The availability of multiple supply voltages and dual threshold voltage offers new opportunities for making tradeoffs between energy consumption and performance. The first paper presents a method to optimally assign high Vt transistors to cluster of low Vt gates for reducing the leakage power. The second paper describes a practical methodology for dual Vt assignment and gate sizing. The third paper presents a novel application fo optimal use of multiple supply voltages.

    32.1
Dynamic and Leakage Power Reduction in MTCMOS Circuits Using an Automated Efficient Gate Clustering Technique

  Speaker(s): Mohab H. Anis - Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  Author(s): Mohab H. Anis - Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Shawki M. Areibi - Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Mohamed K. Mahmoud - Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Mohamed Elmasry - Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
    32.2
Total Power Optimization By Simultaneous Dual-Vt Allocation and Device Sizing in High Performance Microprocessors
  Speaker(s): Tanay Karnik - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
  Author(s): Tanay Karnik - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Yibin Ye - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
James Tschanz - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Liqiong Wei - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Steven M. Burns - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Vivek K. De - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Shekhar Y. Borkar - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Venkatesh Govindarajulu - Intel Corp., Austin, TX
    32.3
An Optimal Voltage Synthesis Technique for a Power-Efficient Satellite Application
  Speaker(s): Dong In Kang - USC/ISI, Arlington, VA
  Author(s): Dong In Kang - USC/ISI, Arlington, VA
Jinwoo Suh - USC/ISI, Arlington, VA
Stephen P. Crago - USC/ISI, Arlington, VA