With so much buzz around low power wearable electronics, designers are looking to save every last nanowatt of power in their design. Clock gating, which arguably is the most efficient and most simple ...

With shrinking technologies, rapid multiplication of clock frequencies, and increasing emphasis on power reduction, low-power design is taking on a vital role. Design teams can no longer afford to ...

Reducing dynamic power consumption, improving battery life, and ultimately reducing the carbon footprint of a device without any compromise on performance is becoming one of the most important ...

Intelligent clock gating is key to Xilinx’s bid to reduce dynamic block-RAM (BRAM) power consumption in its Virtex-6 FPGA designs. The key to this fourth generation partial reconfiguration design flow ...

Clock gating is one of the most frequently used techniques in RTL to reduce dynamic power consumption without affecting the functionality of the design. One method involves inserting gating conditions ...

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 ...

Clock gating is an effective method of reducing the dynamic power consumption in synchronous circuits. One of the ways to achieve this is by masking the clock that goes to the idle portion of the ...

The paper presents an outline of a simple synthesis method of energy-efficient FSMs. The idea consists in using local clock gating to selectively block the clock signal, if no transition of a state of ...

A common challenge facing many semiconductor companies is the push for higher data transmission speeds to drive ever higher system performance. When dealing with clock circuitry in processor and bus ...

Static Timing Analysis (STA) not only acts as a connecting link between backend and frontend design activities, but more importantly helps in bridging the gap between simulation and silicon. STA is ...