Low Power Design Essentials (THIS COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONED)
15 Middlesex Canal Park Drive
Woburn, MA 01801
USA
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. LOOK FOR FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Speaker:
Jerry Frenkil, VP of Engineering, NanoWatt Design, Inc.
Payment received by Dec. 29
IEEE Members $250
Non-members $275
Payment received after Dec. 29
IEEE Members $270
Non-members $290
Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is : Monday, January 5, 2015
Course Description
Power consumption has become a limiting factor in product design. For wireless devices, power consumption limits functionality due to battery life issues. For tethered devices, power consumption limits functionality due to constraints on heat generation and power availability. This short course will survey the wide variety of Low Power Design issues, techniques, and methodologies that have been developed in response to these challenges. It will provide electronics professionals a clear understanding of the design approaches and tradeoffs involved in developing power efficient devices and systems, covering a broad range of approaches from transistors to system architectures.
Outline
Session 1: Introduction and Circuit Level Power Optimizations
Motivations and Trends
Power and Energy Basics
Design Time, Runtime, and Standby techniques
Circuit level power optimization
Interconnect and clock power optimization
Session 2: Logic and System Level Power Optimizations
Arch, Algorithm, & system level power optimization
Memory power optimization
Circuits & Systems for Standby Power Optimization
Circuits & Systems for Runtime Power Optimization
Session 3: Design Methodologies and Advanced Topics
Ultra Low Power / Voltage Design
Low Power Design Methodologies
Power Integrity Methodologies
Summary and Perspective
Target Audience
System and ASIC developers, applications engineers, and design managers needing to understand how to estimate, analyze, and optimize power consumption
Benefits of attending Gain a broad, fundamental understanding of power consumption and how to manage and optimize it during different design phases and in different modes of system operation
Biography
Jerry Frenkil is VP of Engineering at NanoWatt Design, Inc. He has over 25 years experience in the electronics industry, including positions at Mostek, Prime Computer, VLSI Technology, Sente, and Sequence Design, where he was CTO and VP of R&D. Jerry has multiple patents and publications, including chapters in four books. Jerry has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas.
Material with course
Slides will be distributed. Course will be based upon the text “Low Power Design Essentials”, by Jan Rabaey. (Instructor co-authored one of the chapters in the text.)