Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 304
TOPIC AREA:  LOW POWER AND THERMAL
(of special interest to designers)

   SESSION 55
  Low-Power Circuit Design
  Chair: Ali Keshavarzi - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
  Organizers: Naehyuck Chang, Trevor Mudge

  This session addresses various techniques related to low-power circuit design ranging from Elmore models for energy estimation, variation-aware SRAM cell or dynamic gates design, to standard cell leakage power optimization and low-power bus encoding.

  55.1   Elmore Model for Energy Estimation in RC Trees
  Speaker(s): Quming Zhou - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
  Author(s): Quming Zhou - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
Kartik Mohanram - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
  55.2  Self-Calibration Technique for Reduction of Hold Failures in Low-Power Nano-Scaled SRAM
  Speaker(s): Swaroop Ghosh - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
  Author(s): Swaroop Ghosh - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Saibal Mukhopadhyay - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Keejong Kim - Purdue Univ., West lafayette, IN
Kaushik Roy - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
  55.3  A Novel Variation-Aware Low-Power Keeper Architecture for Wide Fan-in Dynamic Gates
  Speaker(s): Hamed F. Dadgour - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  Author(s): Hamed F. Dadgour - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Rajiv Joshi - IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY
Kaustav Banerjee - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  55.4s  Standard Cell Library Optimization for Leakage Reduction
  Speaker(s): Saumil S. Shah - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Author(s): Saumil S. Shah - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Puneet Gupta - Blaze DFM, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Andrew B. Kahng - Blaze DFM, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
  55.5s  Low-Power Bus Encoding Using An Adaptive Hybrid Algorithm
  Speaker(s): Qing Wu - Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY
  Author(s): Avnish R. Brahmbhatt - Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY
Jingyi Zhang - Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY
Qing Wu - Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY
Qinru Qiu - Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY