The electronics of a general biomedical device consist of energy delivery, analog-to-digital
conversion, signal processing, and communication subsystems. Each of these blocks must …

This tutorial surveys design methods for energy-efficient system-level design. We consider
electronic sytems consisting of a hardware platform and software layers. We consider the …

Motivated by emerging battery-operated applications that demand intensive computation in
portable environments, techniques are investigated which reduce power consumption in …

Dynamic power management (DPM) is a design methodology for dynamically reconfiguring
systems to provide the requested services and performance levels with a minimum number …

Processors used in portable systems must provide highly energy-efficient operation, due to
the importance of battery weight and size, without compromising high performance when the …

An approach is presented for minimizing power consumption for digital systems
implemented in CMOS which involves optimization at all levels of the design. This …

Low power design trends raise the possibility of using ambient energy to power future digital
systems. A chip has been designed and tested to demonstrate the feasibility of operating a …

A monolithic current-mode CMOS DC-DC converter with integrated power switches and a
novel on-chip current sensor for feedback control is presented in this paper. With the …

This book presents an in-depth treatment of various power reduction and speed
enhancement techniques based on multiple supply and threshold voltages. A detailed …

The growing class of portable systems, such as personal computing and communication
devices, has resulted in a new set of system design requirements, mainly characterized by …