Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits

With more functionalities being integrated into a microchip today, higher processing power is drawn. As a result of this, clock and logic power consumption has turned out to be a critical issue to be coped with by chip designers. In this paper, we present various power-saving approaches employed in...

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Main Authors: Yeap, Kim Ho, Ng, Len Luet, Ahmad Uzair Mazlan, Loh, Siu Hong, Tshai, Kim Hoe
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024
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author Yeap, Kim Ho
Ng, Len Luet
Ahmad Uzair Mazlan,
Loh, Siu Hong
Tshai, Kim Hoe
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Ng, Len Luet
Ahmad Uzair Mazlan,
Loh, Siu Hong
Tshai, Kim Hoe
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description With more functionalities being integrated into a microchip today, higher processing power is drawn. As a result of this, clock and logic power consumption has turned out to be a critical issue to be coped with by chip designers. In this paper, we present various power-saving approaches employed in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit designs. The approaches involve restructuring the logic circuits, performing clock gating, and selecting the appropriate circuits for counters and frequency divisions. In order to show their efficacies in power optimization, the approaches were applied to a phase-locked loop (PLL), clock divider (CD), full adder (FA), counter, arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) circuits and validated using Intel Quartus Prime Lite and Mentor Graphics Modelsim. The following conclusions can be drawn from the results: Firstly, the efficacy of minimizing power dissipation using logic restructuring is found to be in direct proportion with the rate of the switching activity (SA); secondly, a maximum of 3.5% of thermal power dissipation can be saved using clock gating; thirdly, gray counters give the lowest power consumption; and, finally, the thermal power estimation for the phase-locked loop (PLL) is relatively higher than that for the clock divider (CD) when both of them are implemented for dividing frequencies.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:255282025-07-14T07:49:10Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25528/ Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits Yeap, Kim Ho Ng, Len Luet Ahmad Uzair Mazlan, Loh, Siu Hong Tshai, Kim Hoe With more functionalities being integrated into a microchip today, higher processing power is drawn. As a result of this, clock and logic power consumption has turned out to be a critical issue to be coped with by chip designers. In this paper, we present various power-saving approaches employed in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit designs. The approaches involve restructuring the logic circuits, performing clock gating, and selecting the appropriate circuits for counters and frequency divisions. In order to show their efficacies in power optimization, the approaches were applied to a phase-locked loop (PLL), clock divider (CD), full adder (FA), counter, arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) circuits and validated using Intel Quartus Prime Lite and Mentor Graphics Modelsim. The following conclusions can be drawn from the results: Firstly, the efficacy of minimizing power dissipation using logic restructuring is found to be in direct proportion with the rate of the switching activity (SA); secondly, a maximum of 3.5% of thermal power dissipation can be saved using clock gating; thirdly, gray counters give the lowest power consumption; and, finally, the thermal power estimation for the phase-locked loop (PLL) is relatively higher than that for the clock divider (CD) when both of them are implemented for dividing frequencies. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25528/1/kejut_6.pdf Yeap, Kim Ho and Ng, Len Luet and Ahmad Uzair Mazlan, and Loh, Siu Hong and Tshai, Kim Hoe (2024) Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits. Jurnal Kejuruteraan, 36 (4). pp. 1399-1407. ISSN 0128-0198 https://www.ukm.my/jkukm/volume-3604-2024/
spellingShingle Yeap, Kim Ho
Ng, Len Luet
Ahmad Uzair Mazlan,
Loh, Siu Hong
Tshai, Kim Hoe
Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title_full Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title_fullStr Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title_full_unstemmed Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title_short Dynamic power saving for CMOS circuits
title_sort dynamic power saving for cmos circuits
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25528/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25528/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25528/1/kejut_6.pdf