Exploration of energy & delay trade-offs requires a sizing solution for minimal energy under operating delay and output load constraints. In this work, a simple method called Constant Stage Effort Ratio (CSER) is proposed for minimal energy solution of digital circuits with a given target delay. The proposed method has a linear run-time dependence on the number of logic gates that is exponential for the optimal solution. As sample cases, the proposed algorithm is applied to parallel VLSI adders with varying bit-widths at 65nm CMOS technology. CSER sizing algorithm provides more than 300x run-time improvement compared to energy optimal solution with a worst case difference of 10% in energy for a 128-bits Kogge-Stone adder. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Aktan, M., Baran, D., & Oklobdzija, V. G. (2011). A quick method for energy optimized gate sizing of digital circuits. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6951 LNCS, pp. 1–10). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24154-3_1
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