A CAD-Based Low-Power Design Methodology for Very High-Speed Si Bipolar Standard Cell LSIs

Keiichi KOIKE  Kenji KAWAI  Akira ONOZAWA  Yuichiro TAKEI  Yoshiji KOBAYASHI  Haruhiko ICHINO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E80-C   No.12   pp.1578-1585
Publication Date: 1997/12/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Low-Power and High-Speed LSI Technologies)
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Si bipolar,  ECL,  standard cell,  CAD,  SDH,  

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Summary: 
A computer-aided low-power design methodology for very high-speed Si bipolar standard cell LSI is described. In order to obtain Gbit/s-speed operation, it features a pair of differential clock channels inside cells and a highly accurate static timing analysis for back annotation. A newly developed CAD-based power optimization scheme minimizes cell currents while maintaining circuit speed. A 5.6 k gate SDH signal-processing LSI operating at 1.6 Gbit/s with only 3.9 W power consumption demonstrates the effectiveness of this design technology.