This application note describes ways to estimate power dissipation of individual CMOS logic devices in a system. It will help users determine if their designs raise any power dissipation concerns. Due ...

Because today’s System-On-Chip (SOC) designs contain millions of transistors, design engineers must treat power dissipation as an important design goal for IP blocks and not as just a data-sheet ...

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Today, many portable applications come equipped with Li-ion and Li-polymer batteries, since they provide a very high-energy density relative to their ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Integrated circuit manufacturers are working furiously to reduce the package sizes of power devices for their customer base. This effort has been well ...

Smaller geometry nodes offer cost and performance advantages that encourage their adoption. Yet they present a new set of challenges for IC manufacturers: Though transistors are smaller, they leak ...

This paper presents a low power Clock Gating scheme for clock power improvement that reduces power dissipation by deactivating the clock signal to an inactive value (for clock gating cell) when clock ...

Joule heating, also known as resistive or Ohmic heating, is the power lost to heat as electrical current flows down a conductor. We were introduced to Joule’s first law (Power dissipation = I²R, VI, ...