Title :
ChipOS: Open power-management platform to overcome the power crisis in future LSIs
Author :
Mizuno, H. ; Kawahara, T.
Author_Institution :
Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The power consumption of chips, including the subthreshold and gate-tunnel leakage currents, is continuing to increase dramatically. If this trend continues, power dissipation will be the primary limiter of performance and integration. A power-management platform called ChipOS overcomes the power crisis in LSIs. ChipOS, an operating system for a chip, provides an open power management platform for system-on-a-chip devices.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; large scale integration; leakage currents; low-power electronics; ChipOS; LSIs; gate-tunnel leakage currents; open power-management platform; operating system; power consumption; power crisis; power dissipation; subthreshold leakage currents; system-on-a-chip devices; CMOS logic circuits; Clocks; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Kernel; Large scale integration; Logic circuits; MOSFETs; Power supplies; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2001. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2001 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6608-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2001.912666
