
Power consumption of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) circuits has been growing at an alarmingly rapid rate. This increase in power consumption, coupled with the increasing demand for portable/hand-held electronics, has made power consumption a dominant concern in the design...

Leakage Reduction Techniques: Minimizing Leakage In Modern Day DSM Processes.- Existing Leakage Minimization Approaches.- Computing Leakage Current Distributions.- Finding a Minimal Leakage Vector in the Presence of Random PVT Variations Using Signal Probabilities.- The HL Approach:...