( ESNUG 320 Item 2 ) ---------------------------------------------- [6/2/99]
Subject: ( ESNUG 319 #16 ) Which Of These Power Books Are Useful?
> Has anyone found a low power design reference worth reading? I've
> found a number of books on Computer Literacy's web site but haven't
> had a chance to leaf thru them yet:
From: Jerry Frenkil <jfrenkil@senteinc.com>
Hi John,
I am familiar with most of these books and perhaps can shed some light
on comparisons. IMHO, the one that is "best" will primarily depend
on what type of information is needed.
> Low-Power Digital VLSI Design : Circuits and Systems
> By Bellaouar, A. / Elmasry, Mohamed I. / Bellaouar, Abdellatif
>
> Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques
> By Elrabaa, Muhammad S. / Abu-Khater, Issam S. / Elmasry, Mohamed
These two books are very similar in orientation in that both address
transitor level design. The first book "Low-Power Digital VLSI Design:
Cicuits and Systems" takes a relatively broad view in its coverage of
such topics as low voltage device modeling, logic styles and circuit
families for low power, and low power memory circuits. The latter book,
"Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques", has a more limited scope
but instead focusses in detail on techniques for a few specific structures,
such as adders, multipliers, memories, and transcievers.
> Low Power Digital CMOS Design
> By Chandrakasan, Anantha P . / Brodersen, Robert W .
This is a very good overview of Low Power Design and covers a wide variety
of topics including voltage scaling, power supply design, adiabatic logic,
and optimization at various levels of abstraction. Targetted at hardware
development, much of this book is based on the InfoPad project, a portable
multimedia terminal developed at UC Berkeley.
> Logic Synthesis for Low Power VLSI Designs
> By Iman, Sasan / Pedram, Massoud
As its title suggests, this book focusses on logic synthesis, primarily
from the tool development perspective. It is based on the development
of a power optimizing synthesizer, POSE, developed by the authors at USC.
I believe that this book is most useful for those interested in the
optimization routines and transformations that occur within a synthesizer.
> Low Power Design in Deep Submicron Electronics
> By Nebel, Wolfgang (Edt) / Mermet, Jean (Edt)
This book covers the widest range of all those listed here, addressing
such topics as low power circuit and logic level design, libraries,
estimation techniques, and case studies. It should appeal to both
chip designers as well as tool developers. However, given that the
various chapters were written by different contributing authors, the
coverage of the different topics tends to vary.
> Low Power VLSI Design and Technology
> By Yeap, G. K. (Edt) / Najm, F. N. (Edt) / Najm, Farid N. (Edt)
I am not familiar with this book.
Lastly, you may wish to check out our web site for additional information
on Low Power Design. We maintain a page of pointers to a variety of
industrial and research oriented web-sites all related to low power issues.
If you are interested see http://www.senteinc.com/icpower1.htm
- Jerry Frenkil
VP, Low Power Design
Sente, Inc. Acton, MA
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