Low Power CMOS Design

Graduate

This course is designed to prepare students for advanced VLSI design where low power dissipation is of critical concern. Topics will include: Introduction to low power techniques for CMOS circuit design; design levels of abstraction; sources of power dissipation, capacitance analysis, and power estimation; simulation-based and probability-based power estimation; low-level and high-level power optimization; advanced techniques for modern IC fabrication, and low power design tools from an industrial perspective; recent advances in low power CMOS design (3 lecture hours per week plus project.)