Low-Power Digital CMOS Design

• Armen Yuri Gasparyan

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Recent developments in VLSI fabrication have significantly raised integration levels, enabling the
use of extremely complicated algorithms like discrete cosine transforms and Viterbi decoders,
among others. Naturally, faster speeds have resulted from smaller integrated circuit device and
feature sizes. Demand and expectations for the ongoing advancement of functionality and speed
have increased. The communications sector, in particular, is growing quickly as every provider
looks to improve system performance. However, since many items in this and other markets are
portable and run on batteries, low power consumption is also necessary. Unfortunately, battery
technology has not kept pace with VLSI's rapid progress. As a result, VLSI designers are being
pushed to use new technologies in order to create complicated, high-throughput, low-power
systems.

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