Class Report 何昭毅 : Voltage Scaling
Source of CMOS Power Consumption Dynamic power consumption Short circuit power consumption Leakage power consumption
CMOS Power and Delay CMOS circuit design is to reduce the values of , C L, V DD, and f by applying all possible techniques at all levels of the VLSI system without sacrificing T D. T D is set to be the critical path time delay Set V t = 0.6
Voltage Scaling Changing a processor clock frequency does not reduce the energy required to perform a given task. Lowering the voltage actually reduces the energy required to perform a fixed amount of work. Simplified properties of voltage scaling Energy V 2 & Speed V Energy Speed !!! Trading voltage for performance can be a huge win. !!!
Dynamic Voltage Scaling Time-slicing (TDM) technique will be applied to DVB-Mobile application. The desired data will be received in higher speed but short interval. Assume the data is received 1ms in every 6ms. Time Voltage 1ms3ms6ms Power ConsumptionHigh Median Low
Voltage Scaling - Pipelined Reference Architecture: V DD f A Pipelined Architecture: V DD /N f A1A1 A1A1 A1A1 ff CLCL C L /M
Pipelined Architecture - Example f f f Comparator A>B A B C f f f Comparator A>B A B C f f
Voltage Scaling - Parallel Reference Architecture: V DD f A CLCL Parallel Architecture: V DD /N A1A1 CLCL A2A2 AMAM f/M CLCL CLCL
Parallel Architecture - Example f f f Comparator A>B A B C f/2 Comparator A>B A C f/2 Comparator A>B B C f
Summary of Voltage Scaling Examples ArchitectureVoltageArea (Normalized) Power (Normalized) Reference 511 Pipelined Parallel Parallel- Pipelined (unit: voltage)
References A. P. Chandreakasan and R. W. Brodersen, Minimizing Power Consumption in Digital CMOS Circuits, IEEE Proceedings, pp , April M. Mehendale and S. D. Sherlekar, VLSI Synthesis of DSP Kernels, Kluwer Academic Publishers, K. K. Parhi, VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems – Design and Implementation, John Wiley & Sons, S.S. Rofail and K. Yeo, Low-Voltage, Low-Power Digital BiCMOS Circutis, Prentice Hall, 2000.