Saving Power by Synthesizing Gated Clocks for Sequential Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Luca Benini;Polly Siegel;Giovanni De Micheli

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Portable devices demand low power consumption to prolong battery life. Gating the clock is one strategy for saving power. The authors' technique identifies self-loops in an FSM and uses the function described by the self-loops to gate the clock. Applying these techniques to standard benchmarks achieved an average 25% less power dissipation at a cost of only 5% more area.