Isolation, retention, and power switches are the important functionalities of power-aware designs which use the common low power techniques like power shutoff, multi-voltage, and advanced techniques ...

Promising static and dynamic power dissipation reductions up to 20x and 80%, respectively, the IPrima Mobile application-optimized semiconductor IP platform provides a wide range of power-management ...

Now, we should look in detail at each power consumption factor: Inrush/Power-up current—When an FPGA powers up, it needs to establish internal biases and complete reset sequence. It causes a current ...

A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design to pull useful power out of static electricity. The latest experiments pair ...

Smaller geometry nodes offer cost and performance advantages that encourage their adoption. Yet they present a new set of challenges for IC manufacturers: Though transistors are smaller, they leak ...

In the semiconductor domain, the operating frequency of devices and the number of transistors in a single module increase over time. In this article, we will look at widely known low power ...

Yesterday I promised an overview of what power reduction techniques are out there. First, a disclosure: I was interim CEO of Envis for about a year and I’ve done some consulting for Nanochronous.