Upper and lower bounds on switching energy in VLSI

  • Authors:
  • Gloria Kissin

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI/Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

A technology-independent framework is established for measuring theswitching energy consumed by verylarge scale integrated (VLSI) circuits. Techniques are developed foranalyzing functional energy consumption, and for designingenergy-efficient VLSI circuits. A wire (or gate) in a circuit usesswitching energy when it changes state from 1 to 0 or vice versa. Thispaper develops the Uniswitch Model(USM) of energy consumption, which measures thedifferences between pairs of states of an embeddedcircuit.…—From the Author's Abstract