Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2000.856397
