Minimizing Power Consumption and Energy Requirements in Wireless and Mobile Applications

摘要

Power consumption and energy requirements today are the primary concerns of hardware designers who implement wireless and mobile applications. Although EDA tools are emerging that support a low-power design flow from RTL input down to GDSII output, many design decisions influencing power consumption and energy requirements are already made at the system and architectural abstraction levels prior to writing the RTL code. Those design decisions have a dramatic impact on the power and energy consumption of the design, usually much greater than the power optimization potential available in the RTL to GDSII synthesis flow. Only a few tools that exist today allow hardware engineers to take the right design decision path toward a low-power design architecture.