Low Power Digital VLSI Design Circuits and Systems

The book addresses the design of low-power VLSI digital circuit and system design. A major creative challenge facing today circuit and system VLSI designers is to design new generation products which consume minimum power. Power saving must be achieved without compromising high performance or minimum area. This has created a new design culture within the design community which we have just seen its preliminary results. The essence of this culture must be accessible to the new generation of designers. The concern of power dissipation has been part of the design process since the early 1970s, but was less visible. High speed operation, and designing with minimum area, specially in memories, were the main design constraints. The state-of-the-art was driven towards lower delays and smaller chip area. This book will be useful for students and instructors in their class-room instruction and also valuable to researchers working this area.