Low-power operation using self-timed circuits and adaptive scaling of the supply voltage

Lars Skovby Nielsen; C. Niessen; Jens Sparsø; C. H. van Berkel

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Low-power operation using self-timed circuits and adaptive scaling of the supply voltage

Lars Skovby Nielsen, C. Niessen, Jens Sparsø, C. H. van Berkel

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Recent research has demonstrated that for certain types of applications like sampled audio systems, self-timed circuits can achieve very low power consumption, because unused circuit parts automatically turn into a stand-by mode. Additional savings may be obtained by combining the self-timed circuits with a mechanism that adaptively adjusts the supply voltage to the smallest possible, while maintaining the performance requirements. This paper describes such a mechanism, analyzes the possible power savings, and presents a demonstrator chip that has been fabricated and tested. The idea of voltage scaling has been used previously in synchronous circuits, and the contributions of the present paper are: 1) the combination of supply scaling and self-timed circuitry which has some unique advantages, and 2) the thorough analysis of the power savings that are possible using this technique.>

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Volume	2
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	391-397
ISSN	1063-8210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/92.335008
Publication status	Published - 1994

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Low-power operation using self-timed circuits and adaptive scaling of the supply voltage

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