Title :
Issues in low-power design for telecom
Author :
Vanoostende, Paul ; Van Wauwe, Geert
Author_Institution :
Adv. CAD for VLSI, Alcatel-Bell, Antwerpen, Belgium
Abstract :
This paper studies the importance of the different contributions to the power of telecom ASICs, comparing results for 0.5 μm and 0.7 μm designs. As a result, library development, in particular for RAMs, is identified as a key challenge to obtain low-power ASICs
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; ASICs; RAMs; library development; low-power ASICs; low-power design; telecom; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Design automation; Electronics cooling; Flip-flops; Libraries; Logic gates; Telecommunications; Very large scale integration; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1995, with EURO-VHDL, Proceedings EURO-DAC '95., European
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7156-4
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1995.527466
