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Self-Power Gating Technique For Low Power Asynchronous Circuit

  • Mai, Kim-Ngan Thi;Vo, Huan Minh
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.548-557
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, Asynchronous Self-Power Gating technique (ASPG) is used to reduce consumption power in asynchronous digital watch application. The power gating control signal is automatically generated by internal system operation characteristics instead of using replica circuit delay or four-phase handshaking protocol. Isolation cell is designed to insert it between power gating domain and normal operation domain. By using self-power gating circuit, asynchronous digital watch application consumes very low power and maintains data during sleep mode. The comparison results show the proposed ASPG technique saves leakage power up to 40.47% and delay time is reduced to 71% compared to the conventional circuit.

Robust Placement Method for IR Drop in Power Gating Design (파워 게이팅 설계에서 IR Drop에 견고한 셀 배치 방법)

  • Kwon, Seok Il;Han, Tae Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2016
  • Power gating is one of effective techniques for reducing leakage current in semiconductor chip. However, power gating cell (PGC) which is used to switch the power source causes performance degradation and the associated reliability problem by increasing IR drop. However, the newly raised problem caused by different scaling properties between gates and metal wires demands additional considerations in power gating design. In this paper, we propose a robust cell placement based power gating design method for reducing the area for power gating cell and metal routing thus to meet IR drop requirement. Experimental results by applying the proposed techniques on the application processor for smartphone fabricated in 28nm CMOS process show that power gating cell area is reduced by 16.16% and maximum IR drop value is also decreased by 8.49% compared to existing power gating cell placement techniques.

The study on low power design of 8-bit Micro-processor with Clock-Gating (Clock-gating 을 고려한 저전력 8-bit 마이크로프로세서 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Jong-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.163-167
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, to design 8 bit RISC Microprocessor, a method of Clock Gating to reduce electric power consumption is proposed. In order to examine the priority, the comparison results of between a 8 bit Microprocessor which is not considered Low Power consumption and which is considered Low Power consumption using a methods of Clock Gating are represented. Within the a few periods, the results of comparing with a Microprocessor not considered the utilization of Clock Gating shows that the reduction of dynamic dissipation is minimized up to 21.56%.

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A Frequency Selection Algorithm for Power Consumption Minimization of Processor in Mobile System (이동형 시스템에서 프로세서의 전력 소모 최소화를 위한 주파수 선택 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Jae Jin;Kang, Jin Gu;Hur, Hwa Ra;Yun, Choong Mo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a frequency selection algorithm for minimization power consumption of processor in Mobile System. The proposed algorithm has processor designed low power processor using clock gating method. Clock gating method has improved the power dissipation by control main clock through the bus which is embedded clock block applying the method of clock gating. Proposed method has compared power consumption considered the dynamic power for processor, selected frequency has considered energy gain and energy consumption for designed processor. Or reduced power consumption with decreased processor speed using slack time. This technique has improved the life time of the mobile systems by clock gating method, considered energy and using slack time. As an results, the proposed algorithm reduce average power saving up to 4% comparing to not apply processor in mobile system.

Fine-Grained FSMD Power Gating Considering Power Overhead

  • Shin, Chi-Hoon;Oh, Myeong-Hoon;Sim, Jae-Woo;Jeong, Jae-Chan;Kim, Seong-Woon
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.466-469
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    • 2011
  • As a fine-grained power gating method for achieving greater power savings, our approach takes advantage of the finite state machine with a datapath (FSMD) characteristic which shows sequential idleness among subcircuits. In an FSMD-based power gating, while only an active subcircuit is expected to be turned on, more subcircuits should be activated due to the power overhead. To reduce the number of missed opportunities for power savings, we deactivated some of the turned-on subcircuits by slowing the FSMD down and predicting its behavior. Our microprocessor experiments showed that the power savings are close to the upper bound.

Design and FPGA Implementation of FBMC Transmitter by using Clock Gating Technique based QAM, Inverse FFT and Filter Bank for Low Power and High Speed Applications

  • Sivakumar, M.;Omkumar, S.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.2479-2484
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    • 2018
  • The filter bank multicarrier modulation (FBMC) technique is one of multicarrier modulation technique (MCM), which is mainly used to improve channel capacity of cognitive radio (CR) network and frequency spectrum access technique. The existing FBMC System contains serial to parallel converter, normal QAM modulation, Radix2 inverse FFT, parallel to serial converter and poly phase filter. It needs high area, delay and power consumption. To further reduce the area, delay and power of FBMC structure, a new clock gating technique is applied in the QAM modulation, radix2 multipath delay commutator (R2MDC) based inverse FFT and unified addition and subtraction (UAS) based FIR filter with parallel asynchronous self time adder (PASTA). The clock gating technique is mainly used to reduce the unwanted clock switching activity. The clock gating is nothing but clock signal of flip-flops is controlled by gate (i.e.) AND gate. Hence speed is high and power consumption is low. The comparison between existing QAM and proposed QAM with clock gating technique is carried out to analyze the results. Conversely, the proposed inverse R2MDC FFT with clock gating technique is compared with the existing radix2 inverse FFT. Also the comparison between existing poly phase filter and proposed UAS based FIR filter with PASTA adder is carried out to analyze the performance, area and power consumption individually. The proposed FBMC with clock gating technique offers low power and high speed than the existing FBMC structures.

Power Converter Gating Signal Generation with DSP Software (DSP 소프트웨어에 의한 전력변환기 게이팅 신호 발생)

  • Lee, Hae-Chun;Park, Tae-Yeol;Kim, Gi-Taek
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.21 no.A
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 2001
  • Power converters are widely used in the applications of servo drives of ac and dc motors and power supplies. For the control of the converters carious control algorithms have been proposed and realized by gating signal generation. Software control shemes are being applied to implement the control algorithms, but analog circuits are still used for the gating signal generation because it requires very fast and precise timing. In this paper the gating signal generation with DSP software are proposed for the three phase to three phase PWM converter. Design procedures and software flowcharts are presented and some experimental waveforms are also presented to verify the proposed algorithms.

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Header-Based Power Gating Structure Considering NBTI Aging Effect (NBTI 노화 효과를 고려한 헤더 기반의 파워게이팅 구조)

  • Kim, Kyung-Ki
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a novel adaptive header-based power gating structure to compensate for the performance loss and the increased wake-up time of the power gating structures induced by the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) effect. The proposed structure consists of variable width footers based on the two-pass power gating and a new NBTI sensing circuit for an adaptive control. The simulation results of the proposed structure are compared to those of power gating without the adaptive control and show that both the circuit-delay and wake-up time dependence of the power gating structure on the NBTI stress is minimized with only 3% and 4% increase, respectively while keeping small leakage power and rush-current. In this paper, a 45 nm CMOS technology and predictive NBTI model have been used to implement the proposed circuits.

High-level Power Modeling of Clock Gated Circuits (클럭 게이팅 적용회로의 상위수준 전력 모델링)

  • Kim, Jonggyu;Yi, Joonhwan
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.52 no.10
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2015
  • Not only performance analysis but also power analysis at early design stages is important in designing a system-on-chip. We propose a power modeling based on clock gating enable signals that enables accurate power analysis at a high-level. Power state is defined as combinations of the values of the clock gating enable signals and we can extract the clock gating enable signals to generate the power model automatically. Experimental results show that the average power accuracy is about 96% and the speed gain of power analysis at the high-level power is about 280 times compared to that at the gate-level.

Reduction of the Number of Power States for High-level Power Models based on Clock Gating Enable Signals (클럭 게이팅 구동신호 기반 상위수준 전력모델의 전력 상태 수 감소)

  • Choi, Hosuk;Yi, Joonhwan
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.52 no.9
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we propose to identify redundant power states of high-level power model based on clock gating enable signals(CGENs) using dependencies of Boolean functions and structural dependencies of clock gating cells. Three functional dependencies between two CGENs, namely equvalence, inversion, and inclusion, are used. Functions of CGENs in a circuit are represented by binary decision diagrams (BDDs) and the functional relations are used to reduce the number of power states. The structural dependency appears when a clock gating cell drives another clock gating cells in a circuit. Automatic dependency checking algorithm has been proposed. The experimental results show the average number of power state is reduced by 59%.