ABSTRACT
Power consumption has emerged as a very significant design parameter, which should be taken into consideration by the designer. Market-driven aggressive demands and technology-related limitations have steered researchers to try to invent new design techniques and methodologies to confront the power requirements. In particular, the field of personal computing devices (i.e., laptops, palmtops, as well as video-and audio-based multimedia products), wireless communication systems (i.e., personal digital assistants and mobile phones), home entertainment (i.e., consumer set-top boxes and video games) and wearable computers are some from the plethora of the market products, which are becoming increasingly popular. On the other hand, physical and technology issues related to chip packaging, cooling, signal integrity, threshold-voltage fluctuations, and variable supply voltages are some challenging problems, which should be studied and solved.
