Low Power Design in Deep Submicron Electronics deals with the
different aspects of low power design for deep submicron electronics at
all levels of abstraction from system level to circuit level and
technology. Its objective is to guide industrial and academic engineers
and researchers in the selection of methods, technologies and tools and
to provide a baseline for further developments. Furthermore the book has
been written to serve as a textbook for postgraduate student courses. In
order to achieve both goals, it is structured into different chapters
each of which addresses a different phase of the design, a particular
level of abstraction, a unique design style or technology. These
design-related chapters are amended by motivations in Chapter 2, which
presents visions both of future low power applications and technology
advancements, and by some advanced case studies in Chapter 9.
From the Foreword:
`... This global nature of design for low power was well understood by
Wolfgang Nebel and Jean Mermet when organizing the NATO workshop which
is the origin of the book. They invited the best experts in the field to
cover all aspects of low power design. As a result the chapters in this
book are covering deep-submicron CMOS digital system design for low
power in a systematic way from process technology all the way up to
software design and embedded software systems.
Low Power Design in Deep Submicron Electronics is an excellent guide
for the practicing engineer, the researcher and the student interested
in this crucial aspect of actual CMOS design. It contains about a
thousand references to all aspects of the recent five years of feverish
activity in this exciting aspect of design.'
Hugo de Man
Professor, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Senior Research Fellow, IMEC, Belgium
