The talk will present a sensitivity-based methodology for power-performance optimization of digital circuits and systems. The application of the methodology to complex designs puts new requirements on digital standard-cell libraries which include special cells. This includes characterization of custom macros, ability to include third-party macros/IP, usage of a SRAM generator and creation of an I/O library customized for low power. A 90-nm generic library from Synopsys which meets the mentioned requirements and is compatible with Universal Power Format (UPF) will be presented in the tutorial. The use of the library will be exemplified on different circuit designs.
This tutorial is intended for university professors and company specialists dealing with IS design with awareness of contemporary IC design trends, and experience in IC/IP Design.
Instructor: Dejan Markovic
Dejan Markovic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed the Ph.D. degree in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley. In recognition of the impact of his Ph.D. work, he was awarded 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize at UC Berkeley. His current research is focused on digital ICs and architectures for parallel data processing in future radio and healthcare systems, design with post-CMOS devices, optimization methods and CAD flows. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009.
Dejan Markovic can be contacted at dejan@ee.ucla.edu
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Troy Wood is the University Alliances Manager for Synopsys.