This book provides a practical guide for engineers doing low power
System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. It covers various aspects of low power
design from architectural issues and design techniques to circuit design
of power gating switches. It also describes some well established
techniques and then details the latest approaches to low power design.
These leading edge techniques include power gating and adaptive voltage
scaling. In addition to providing a theoretical basis for these
techniques, the book addresses the practical issues of implementing them
in today's designs with today's tools. All of the methods used have been
proven in test chips jointly developed by Synopsys and ARM.