A methodology for the behavioral-level event-driven power management of digital receivers

Author

Zervas, N.D. ; Soudris, D. ; Theoharis, S. ; Goutis, C.E. ; Thanailakis, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

589

Abstract

Power management is a low-power technique applicable in almost all design levels. Event-driven power management has been applied at the system-level. The same concept can be applied for receiver design at the behavioral-level. Power management involves a trade-off according to which, on the one hand, power is decreased by shutting down parts of the circuit, but on the other hand, power is increased by the insertion of the required logic for the generation of the shutdown signals. In this paper, receiver context characteristics are exploited in order to develop a methodology for the behavioral-level exploration of this trade-off. The efficiency of the proposed methodology is proven by its application on a real-life digital DECT receiver

Keywords

cordless telephone systems; digital radio; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; microwave receivers; DECT receiver; behavioral-level event-driven power management; behavioral-level exploration; context characteristics; digital receivers; low-power technique; shutdown signals; Capacitance; Circuits; Energy consumption; Energy management; Equations; Logic; Power dissipation; Power system management; Semiconductor device modeling; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5482-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2000.856397

Filename

856397