Chipmakers are pushing into sub-threshold operation in an effort to prolong battery life and reduce energy costs, adding a whole new set of challenges for design teams. While process and environmental ...
New SOC (system-on-chip) process technology brings with it some process, voltage, and temperature effects, as well as IR drop, which all impact timing closure. Designers can model the on-chip ...
Near-threshold computing has long been used for power-sensitive devices, but some surprising, unrelated advances are making it much easier to deploy. While near-threshold logic has been an essential ...
Tokyo, June 12, 2007 −− Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of a technology that is effective in implementing SRAM in processes of the 32 nm (nanometer) generation and beyond, for ...
A new technique in transistor design promises to drastically cut the power consumption of many electronic devices, especially miniature battery-powered tech gadgets. In essence the new process, ...
Low-power circuit design has evolved into a critical research domain that addresses the dual challenges of energy efficiency and variation resilience. This field focuses on creating systems that ...
Energy consumption has become the most important parameter for today’s batterypowered electronic devices. The need to reduce energy consumption has led the industry to reconsider the concept of ...
SuVolta has revealed a bit more about their Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low power, CMOS transistor technology designed for embedded SoCs (System-on-chip). SuVolta's PowerShrink transistor (see DDC ...