Bookshelf

2020


Adaptive Digital Circuits for Power-Performance Range beyond Wide Voltage Scaling

This book offers the first comprehensive coverage of digital design techniques to expand the power-performance tradeoff well beyond that allowed by conventional wide voltage scaling.  Compared to conventional fixed designs, the approach described in this book makes digital circuits more versatile and adaptive, allowing simultaneous optimization at both ends of the power-performance spectrum. Drop-in solutions for fully automated and low-effort design based on commercial CAD tools are discussed extensively for processors, accelerators and on-chip memories, and are applicable to prominent applications (e.g., IoT, AI, wearables, biomedical).

Through the higher power-performance versatility techniques described in this book, readers are enabled to reduce the design effort through reuse of the same digital design instance, across a wide range of applications.  All concepts the authors discuss are demonstrated by dedicated testchip designs and experimental results. To make the results immediately usable by the reader, all the scripts necessary to create automated design flows based on commercial tools are provided and explained.

2017

 
This book offers the first comprehensive view on integrated circuit and system design for the Internet of Things (IoT), and in particular for the tiny nodes at its edge. The book provides a fresh perspective on how the IoT will evolve based on recent and foreseeable trends in the semiconductor industry, highlighting the key challenges, as well as the opportunities for circuit and system innovation to address them. The book describes what the IoT really means from the design point of view, and how the constraints imposed by applications translate into integrated circuit requirements and design guidelines. Chapter contributions equally come from industry and academia.

After providing a system perspective on IoT nodes, the book focuses on state-of-the-art design techniques for IoT applications, encompassing the fundamental sub-systems encountered in Systems on Chip for IoT:• ultra-low power digital architectures and circuits• low- and zero-leakage memories (including emerging technologies)• circuits for hardware security and authentication• System on Chip design methodologies• on-chip power management and energy harvesting• ultra-low power analog interfaces and analog-digital conversion• short-range radios• miniaturized battery technologies• packaging and assembly of IoT integrated systems (on silicon and non-silicon substrates).As common thread, all chapters include a final section providing the reader with a clear prospective view on the foreseeable evolution of the related technologies for IoT. The concepts developed throughout the book are exemplified by two IoT node system demonstrations from industry.

2015

Flip-Flop Design in Nanometer CMOS

This book provides a unified treatment of Flip-Flop design and selection in nanometer CMOS VLSI systems. The design aspects related to the energy-delay tradeoff in Flip-Flops are discussed, including their energy-optimal selection according to the targeted application, and the detailed circuit design in nanometer CMOS VLSI systems. Design strategies are derived in a coherent framework that includes explicitly nanometer effects, including leakage, layout parasitics and process/voltage/temperature variations, as main advances over the existing body of work in the field. The related design tradeoffs are explored in a wide range of applications and the related energy-performance targets. A wide range of existing and recently proposed Flip-Flop topologies are discussed. Theoretical foundations are provided to set the stage for the derivation of design guidelines, and emphasis is given on practical aspects and consequences of the presented results. Analytical models and derivations are introduced when needed to gain an insight into the inter-dependence of design parameters under practical constraints.

 

2005

Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic

The main focus of this book is to provide the reader with a deep understanding of modeling and design strategies of Current-Mode digital circuits, as well as to organize in a coherent manner all the original and powerful authors’ results in the domain of Current-Mode digital circuits.

Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic includes bipolar Current-Mode digital circuits, which emerged as an approach to realize digital circuits with the highest speed, and CMOS Current-Mode digital circuits, which together with its speed performance has been rediscovered to allow logic gates implementations having the feature of low noise level generation.
Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic allows the reader not only to understand the operating principle and the features of bipolar and MOS Current-Mode digital circuits, but also to design optimized digital gates. And, although the material is presented in a formal and theoretical manner, much emphasis is devoted to a design perspective. Moreover, to further link the book’s theoretical aspects with practical issues, and to provide the reader with an idea of the real order of magnitude involved assuming actual technologies, numerical examples together with SPICE simulations are included in the book.
Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic can be used as a reference to practicing engineers working in this area and as text book to senior undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students (already familiar with electronic circuits and logic gates) who want to extend their knowledge and cover all aspects of the analysis and design of Current-Mode digital circuits.