the Low Power Methodologies extensively used in the industry

[kumar_eee]

Low Power Design

What are all the Low Power Methodologies are used in the industry?.

I know there are some methods.
1. Clock Gating
2. Multi-Vt
3. Power Gating.

Which methods is being used extensively these days?.

 

[shelby]

Low Power Design

4. Multi Vdd
5. DVFS

I would say clock gating and multi-vt are used extensively as they require little effort and are relatively simple to implement into the design flow. The other methods require additional effort to the architecture definition, physical design, verification, and/or timing closure.

 

[jimjim2k]

Low Power Design

Hi

Add "operand isolation" too.


tnx

 

[arjun1110]

Re: Low Power Design

Hi Jimjim2k,

Will you elobarate on "operand isolation". I am first time hearing this.

Regards

 

[cop02ia]

Re: Low Power Design

Hi,
Operand isolation is similar to clock gating - only this time, we're gating a bunch of logical operations.
A simple example would be a signal going through a bunch of logic (the operation we are targetting to isolate) and leading directly to a MUX input.

We can specify that the Select signal to the MUX & signal goes to an AND gate.
So, if the Select of the MUX chooses a different signal than the first one, the circuit does not have to pass the signal through the operation - the signal has already been stopped at the AND gate.

In the diagram below, the red colour reflects the added component (AND gate) & net used for operand isolation.

 

[ivlsi]

Are there some tools, which deal with Operand Isolation, or it ALWAYS should be done in the RTL level?