Technology trends and especially portable applications drive the quest for low-power VLSI
design. Solutions that involve algorithmic, structural or physical transformations are sought …

With the advent of portable and high-density microelectronic devices, the power dissipation
of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits is becoming a critical concern. Accurate and …

We address the problem of estimating the average power dissipated in VLSI combinational
and sequential circuits, under random input sequences. Switch-ing activity is strongly …

The authors investigate a power estimation technique for VLSI that combines the accuracy of
simulation-based techniques with the speed of the probabilistic techniques. The resulting …

Low supply voltage requires the device threshold to be reduced in order to maintain
performance. Due to the exponential relationship between leakage current and threshold …

Noting that a common element in most causes of runtime failure is the extent of circuit
activity, ie the rate at which its nodes are switching, the author proposes a measure of …

In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of the simulator PowerMill, a novel
transistor level simulator for the simulation of current and power behavior in vlsi circuits. With …

The increasing demand for portable computing has elevated power consumption to be one
of the most critical design parameters. A high-level synthesis system, HYPER-LP, is …

This paper describes a novel strategy for generating accurate black-box models of datapath
power consumption at the architecture level. This is achieved by recognizing that power …

In this paper, we present a new embedded wavelet image coding system using quadtree
splitting and context modeling. It features low computational complexity and high …