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  • An ultra low power frequency reference for timekeeping applications

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    Oporta, Hector Ivan
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    An ultra low power crystal oscillator that provides a frequency reference for battery powered timekeeping applications is presented. An amplitude control circuit is employed to ensure that minimum current is consumed. A subthreshold voltage regulator provides a supply voltage for the oscillator with minimum current consumption. The oscillator and regulator...
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    follows it. This allows a high battery voltage to be used with this system, while still maintaining a low

  • Design of high-performance pipeline analog-to-digital converters in low-voltage processes

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    Myers, Charles Grant
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    Pipeline analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have long been used in high-speed systems for power-efficient data conversion. Broadband communication and video processing systems are placing high demands on converter accuracy and speed (above 14 bits and in the multiple-MHz range). The increasing converter requirements coupled with lower supply voltages in modern processes...
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    : Design of High-Performance Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters in Low–Voltage Processes . Abstract

  • Active matrix electroluminescent device power considerations

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    Beck, Douglas
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    An active-matrix electroluminescent (AMEL) design tool has been developed for the simulation of AMEL display devices. The AMEL design tool is a software package that simulates AMEL device operation using a lumped parameter circuit model. The lumped parameter circuit model is developed primarily to address AMEL power dissipation issues. The...
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    voltage NDMOS transistor breakdown voltage, parasitic capacitance optimization, and development of a low

  • A resource-constrained scheduling scheme that considers resources operating at multiple voltages and register assignment

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    Lee, Chee
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    Power and timing requirements are becoming more and more stringent as applications move from less mobile devices to more mobile ones. As such, it is important to optimize these applications as much as possible in order to provide the best solution that is low power and low latency. Although there...
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    - voltage resources. Nodes with low mobility are given priority when assigning to high-voltage resources

  • Optimizing performance/watt of embedded SIMD multiprocessors through a priori application guided power scheduling

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    Albright, Ryan K.
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    A method for improving performance/watt of an embedded single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture using application-guided a priori scheduling of hardware resources is presented. A multi-core architectural simulator is adopted that accurately estimates power, performance, and utilization of various processor components (logic, interconnect and memory). A greedy search is then performed on...
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    ) while operating below the threshold voltage [21]. Because of the low clock frequency requirement

  • A DC-DC converter architecture for low-power, high-resistance thermoelectric generators for use in body-powered designs

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    Miller, Brian A.
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    This thesis presents a low power DC-DC converter suitable for harvesting energy from high impedance thermoelectric generators (TEGs) for the use in body powered electronics. The chip has been fabricated in a 130nm CMOS technology. To meet the power demands of body powered networks, a novel dual-path architecture capable of...
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    loop features a low-power clock and a pulse counting system that is capable of matching the converter

  • Simulator for optimizing performance and power of embedded multicore processors

    Creator:
    Goska, Benjamin J.
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    This work presents improvements to a multi-core performance/power simulator. The improvements which include updated power models, voltage scaling aware models, and an application specific benchmark, are done to increase the accuracy of power models under voltage and frequency scaling. Improvements to the simulator enable more accurate design space exploration for...
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    improvements which include updated power models, voltage scaling aware models, and an application specific

  • Low power scheduling schemes that consider latency and resource constraints at multiple voltages

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    Huang, Shyh-Sen
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    Power reduction can be achieved at many different levels, such as architecture, algorithm, logic, and transistor levels in circuit design. This thesis focuses on low power scheduling at the algorithm level. We present a latency-constrained scheduling and a latency and resource constrained scheduling, which minimize power consumption for the resources...
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    based on the consideration of assigning most nodes to low voltage and reducing the number of registers

  • The low-power design of prefix adder

    Creator:
    Chang, Che-jen
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    Minimizing the dynamic power consumption of a circuit is becoming a more and more important issue for digital circuit design in the age of portable electronics. Among all the arithmetic circuits, addition is the most fundamental operation. Therefore, designing low power adder is an important and necessary research area. In...
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    the lowest possible voltage level, which is very important to low power design. Third, self-timed

  • Low power high resolution data converter in digital CMOS technology

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    Zheng, Zhiliang
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    The advance of digital IC technology has been very fast, as shown by rapid development of DSP, digital communication and digital VLSI. Within electronic signal processing, analog-to-digital conversion is a key function, which converts the analog signal into digital form for further processing. Recently, low-voltage and low-power have become also...
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    analog signal into digital form for further processing. Recently, low-voltage and low-power have become