Design of a Low Power DSP with Distributed and Early Clock Gating

A novel clock structure of a low-power 16-bit very large instruction word (VLIW) digital signal processor (DSP) was proposed. To improve deterministic clock gating and to solve the drawback of conventional clock gating circuit in high speed circuit, a distributed and early clock gating method was developed on its instruction fetch & decoder unit, its pipelined data-path unit and its super-Harvard memory interface unit. The core was implemented following the Synopsys back-end flow under TSMC (Taiwan Silicon manufacture corporation) 0.18-μm 1.8-V 1P6M process, with a core size of 2 mm×2 mm. Result shows that it can run under 200 MHz with a power performance around 0.3 mW/MIPS. Meanwhile, only 39.7% circuit is active simultaneously in average, compared to its non-gating counterparts.

Design of Low-Power Data Logger of Deep Sea for Long-Term Field Observation

This paper describes the implementation of a data logger for the real-time in-situ monitoring of hydrothermal systems. A compact mechanical structure ensures the security and reliability of data logger when used under deep sea. The data logger is a battery powered instrument, which can connect chemical sensors （pH electrode, H2S electrode, H2 electrode） and temperature sensors. In order to achieve major energy savings, dynamic power management is implemented in hardware design and software design. The working current of the data logger in idle mode and active mode is 15 μA and 1.44 mA respectively, which greatly extends the working time of battery. The data logger has been successftdly tested in the first Sino-American Cooperative Deep Submergence Project from August 13 to September 3, 2005.

A vector inserting TPG for BIST design with low peak power consumption

A test pattern generator （TPG） which can highly reduce the peak power consumption during built-in self-test （BIST） application is proposed. The proposed TPG, called LPpe-TPG, consists of a linear feedback shift register （LFSR） and some control circuits. A procedure is presented firstly to make compare vectors between pseudorandom test patterns by adding some circuits to the original LFSR and secondly to insert some vectors between two successive pseudorandom test patterns according to the ordinal selection of every two bits of the compare vector. Then the changes between any successive test patterns of the test set generated by the LPpe-TPG are not more than twice. This leads to a decrease of the weighted switching activity （WSA） of the circuit under test （CUT） and therefore a reduction of the power consumption. Experimental results based on some ISCAS＇ 85 benchmark circuits show that the peak power consumption has been reduced by 25.25% to 64.46%. Also, the effectiveness of our approach to reduce the total and average power consumption is kept, without losing stuck-at fault coverage.

Design and Implement of Low Power Consumption SRAM Based on Single Port Sense Amplifier in 65 nm

With the rapid development of integrated circuits [1], low power consumption has become a constant pursuiting goal of the designer in chip design. As the memory almost takes up the area of the chip, reducing memory power consumption will significantly reduce the overall power consumption of the chip;according to ISSCC’s 2014 report about technology trends discussions, there two points of the super-low power SRAM design: 1) design a more effective static and dynamic power control circuit for each key module of SRAM;2) ensure that in the case of the very low VDD min, SRAM can operating reliably and stably. This paper makes full use reliable of 8T cell, and the single-port sense amplifier has solved problems in the traditional 8T cell structure, making the new structure of the memory at a greater depth still maintain good performance and lower power consumption. Compared with the designed SRAM the SRAM generated by commercial compiler, as the performance loss at SS corner does not exceed 10%, the whole power consumption could be reduced by 54.2%, which can achieve a very good effect of low-power design.

Ultra-Low Power Designing for CMOS Sequential Circuits

Power consumption is the bottleneck of system performance. Power reduction has become an important issue in digital circuit design, especially for high performance portable devices (such as cell phones, PDAs, etc.). Many power reduction techniques have also been proposed from the system level down to the circuit level. High-speed computation has thus become the expected norm from the average user, instead of being the province of the few with access to a powerful mainframe. Power must be added to the portable unit, even when power is available in non-portable applications, the issue of low-power design is becoming critical. Thus, it is evident that methodologies for the design of high-throughput, low-power digital systems are needed. Techniques for low-power operation are shown in this paper, which use the lowest possible supply voltage coupled with architectural, logic style, circuit, and technology optimizations. The threshold vol-tages of the MTCMOS devices for both low and high Vth are constructed as the low threshold Vth is approximately 150 - 200 mv whereas the high threshold Vth is managed by varying the thickness of the oxide Tox. Hence we are using different threshold voltages with minimum voltages and hence considered this project as ultra-low power designing.

Low Power Transceiver Design Parameters for Wireless Sensor Networks

Designing low power sensor networks has been the general goal of design engineers, scientist and end users. It is desired to have a wireless sensor network (WSN) that will run on little power (if possible, none at all) thereby saving cost, and the inconveniences of having to replace batteries in some difficult to access areas of usage. Previous researches on WSN energy models have focused less on the aggregate transceiver energy consumption models as compared to studies on other components of the node, hence a large portion of energy in a WSN still get depleted through data transmission. By studying the energy consumption map of the transceiver of a WSN node in different states and within state transitions, we propose in this paper the energy consumption model of the transceiver unit of a typical sensor node and the transceiver design parameters that significantly influences this energy consumption. The contribution of this paper is an innovative energy consumption model based on simple finite automata which reveals the relationship between the aggregate energy consumption and important power parameters that characterize the energy consumption map of the transceiver in a WSN;an ideal tool to design low power WSN.

Design for Low Power Testing of Computation Modules with Contiguous Subspace in VLSI

A kind of pseudo Gray code presentation of test patterns based on accumulation generators is presented and a low power test scheme is proposed to test computational function modules with contiguous subspace in very large scale integration （VLSI）, especially in digital signal processors （DSP）. If test patterns from accumulators for the modules are encoded in the pseudo Gray code presentation, the switching activities of the modules are reduced, and the decrease of the test power consumption is resulted in. Results of experimentation based on FPGA show that the test approach can reduce dynamic power consumption by an average of 17.40% for 8-bit ripple carry adder consisting of 3-2 counters. Then implementation of the low power test in hardware is exploited. Because of the reuse of adders, introduction of additional XOR logic gates is avoided successfully. The design minimizes additional hardware overhead for test and needs no adjustment of circuit structure. The low power test can detect any combinational stuck-at fault within the basic building block without any degradation of original circuit performance.

A Low-Power-Consumption 9bit 10MS/s Pipeline ADC for CMOS Image Sensors

A low-power-consumption 9bit 10MS/s pipeline ADC,used in a CMOS image sensor,is proposed. In the design, the decrease of power consumption is achieved by applying low-power-consumption and large-output-swing amplifiers with gain boost structure, and biasing all the cells with the same voltage bias source, which requires careful layout design and large capacitors. In addition,capacitor array DAC is also applied to reduce power consumption,and low threshold voltage MOS transistors are used to achieve a large signal processing range. The ADC was implemented in a 0.18μm 4M-1 P CMOS process,and the experimental results indicate that it consumes only 7mW, which is much less than general pipeline ADCs. The ADC was used in a 300000 pixels CMOS image sensor.

A Low Power Non-Volatile LR-WPAN Baseband Processor with Wake-Up Identification Receiver

The paper proposes a low power non-volatile baseband processor with wake-up identification(WUI) receiver for LR-WPAN transceiver.It consists of WUI receiver,main receiver,transmitter,non-volatile memory(NVM) and power management module.The main receiver adopts a unified simplified synchronization method and channel codec with proactive Reed-Solomon Bypass technique,which increases the robustness and energy efficiency of receiver.The WUI receiver specifies the communication node and wakes up the transceiver to reduce average power consumption of the transceiver.The embedded NVM can backup/restore the states information of processor that avoids the loss of the state information caused by power failure and reduces the unnecessary power of repetitive computation when the processor is waked up from power down mode.The baseband processor is designed and verified on a FPGA board.The simulated power consumption of processor is 5.1uW for transmitting and 28.2μW for receiving.The WUI receiver technique reduces the average power consumption of transceiver remarkably.If the transceiver operates 30 seconds in every 15 minutes,the average power consumption of the transceiver can be reduced by two orders of magnitude.The NVM avoids the loss of the state information caused by power failure and energy waste caused by repetitive computation.

SYNCHRONOUS DERIVED CLOCK AND SYNTHESIS OF LOW POWER SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS

Based on analyzing significance of controlling clock in design of low power sequential circuits, this paper proposes a technique that the gating signal is derived from the master latch in a flip-flop to make the derived clock having no glitch and no skew. The design of a decimal counter with half-frequency division shows that by using the synchronous derived clock the counter has lower power dissipation as well as simpler combinational logic. Computer simulation shows 20% power saving.

Reducing Power and Energy Consumption of Nonvolatile Microcontrollers with Transparent On-Chip Instruction Cache

Demands for low-energy microcontrollers have been increasing in recent years. Since most microcontrollers achieve user programmability by integrating nonvolatile (NV) memories such as flash memories for storing their programs, the large power consumption required in accessing an NV memory has become a major problem. This problem becomes critical when the power supply voltage of NV microcontrollers is decreased. We can solve this problem by introducing an instruction cache, thus reducing the access frequency of the NV memory. Unlike general-purpose microprocessors, microcontrollers used for real-time applications in embedded systems must accurately calculate program execution time prior to its execution. Therefore, we introduce a “transparent” instruction cache, which does not change the existing NV microcontroller’s cycle-level execution time, for reducing power and energy consumption, but not for improving the processing speed. We have conducted detailed microar chitecture design based on the architecture of a major industrial microcontroller, and we evaluated power and energy consumption for several benchmark programs. Our evaluation shows that the proposed instruction cache can successfully reduce energy consumption in a fairly wide range of practical NV microcontroller configurations.

西门子SIMARIS Design工具软件在低压配电系统校验中的应用

从配电系统计算、保护设备选型、电缆选择、线路保护配合及无功补偿等方面介绍了西门子公司SIMARISDesign设计软件在低压配电系统校验中的应用。并以某小区工程项目为例,具体介绍了SIMARISDesign工具软件的应用。该软件可对电气工程技术人员提供强大的技术支持。

Dynamic Power Dissipation Control Method for Real-Time Processors Based on Hardware Multithreading

In order to eliminate the energy waste caused by the traditional static hardware multithreaded processor used in real-time embedded system working in the low workload situation, the energy efficiency of the hardware multithread is discussed and a novel dynamic multithreaded architecture is proposed. The proposed architecture saves the energy wasted by removing idle threads without manipulation on the original architecture, fulfills a seamless switching mechanism which protects active threads and avoids pipeline stall during power mode switching. The report of an implemented dynamic multithreaded processor with 45 nm process from synthesis tool indicates that the area of dynamic multithreaded architecture is only 2.27% higher than the static one in achieving dynamic power dissipation, and consumes 1.3% more power in the same peak performance.

西门子SIMARIS Design工具软件在低压配电系统校验中的应用(续)

从配电系统计算、保护设备选型、电缆选择、线路保护配合及无功补偿等方面介绍了西门子公司SIMARIS Design设计软件在低压配电系统校验中的应用。并以某小区工程项目为例,具体介绍了SIMARIS Design工具软件的应用。该软件可对电气工程技术人员提供强大的技术支持。

嵌入式机房多功能模块智能监控系统设计

为充分提高大型机房智能化运维能力,及时排除各种异常情况,实现高精度、低功耗的系统设计目标;提出基于嵌入式的机房多功能模块智能监控系统设计方法;设计针对机房空间的传感信号采集层、数据传输层、后台监控层的多层系统架构;硬件结构设计了用户登录模块、传感器运行模块、数据记录模块和监控显示模块,4个功能模块在多层架构下工作;软件部分通过数据传输程序连接终端设备与云计算中心,利用数据处理程序完成功能模块参数设置,完成嵌入式机房运行数据自动监控,针对系统的功耗问题,设计了微结构级功耗模型,降低系统功耗;实验结果表明:所设计系统容错率在80%以上,数据采集精度高,当浓度超过100 ppm时,自动对烟雾超标情况启动报警装置;可以实时响应接入设备,及时获取预警信息,功耗低,平均响应时间均在2.8 s以下,实现嵌入式机房自动智能监控。

存储体编译和布局协同的片上缓存设计方法

为了提高片上缓存的速度、降低面积和功耗,提出了一种存储体编译和布局协同的片上缓存设计方法。该方法基于存储体在芯片上的不同空间位置预估该存储体的时序余量,分别采用拆分/合并、尺寸调整、阈值替换和长宽比变形等多种配置参数穷举组合进行存储体编译,根据时序余量选择最优的静态随机存取存储器存储体编译配置。将该方法与现有的物理设计步骤集成为一个完整的设计流程。实验结果表明,该方法能够降低约9.9%的功耗,同时缩短7.5%的关键路径延时。

铁路系统中传感器的低功耗电源管理系统设计

探讨铁路系统中无线传感器的低功耗电源管理策略,并提出一种创新的改进策略。先介绍了铁路传感器系统的架构和相关的能源管理电路设计,然后分析了系统的状态转换过程,包括状态切换时间点和功耗问题。基于这些分析,提出一种自适应功耗模块激活策略,该策略根据传感器传输数据的频率和重要性来动态调整功耗模块的激活频率。此外,还研究了基于状态切换的功率优化方法,以最大限度地减小功率消耗。

低碳建筑配电设计策略研究

碳中和背景下建筑设计将会发生巨大的变化,同时也会对民用建筑电气设计产生深刻影响。本文以民用建筑领域碳排放为研究对象,论述民用建筑在运行阶段降低碳排放的有效途径,重点分析了低碳建筑配电设计相关技术,并将其应用到不同配电系统架构体系中,为民用建筑电气低碳设计策略提供了支撑和参考。

城轨14号道岔轨道刚度规律及低动力设计

为研究侧向过岔速度更高的国产14号无砟道岔轨道刚度分布规律,基于有限元理论,建立城轨14号道岔轨道刚度计算模型,模型中充分考虑轨下胶垫、板下胶垫、钢轨类型、滑床台等部件的影响,重点分析了14号道岔整体刚度纵向分布的变化规律,并针对轨道刚度分布不均匀进行了低动力设计。结果表明:城轨14号单开道岔轨道竖向刚度沿线路纵向不均匀分布,其中连接部分刚度最小,转辙器部分刚度最大值为连接部分的1.5倍,辙叉部分刚度最大值为连接部分的2.0倍;通过低动力设计,钢轨整体刚度纵向变化率最大值从207.4%降至121.6%,钢轨挠度变化率全部降至0.3 mm/m以内,能够满足城轨14号道岔的运输组织要求。