CAREER: Advances in Theory, Design Methods, and CAD for Low-Power VLSI

本研究是关于低功耗VLSI设计的设计方法。研究活动包括以下内容。首先，了解低功耗I/O编码及其在实际问题中的应用。该方法是获得新的实用的有限权重编码，并将低功耗编码方法扩展到其他数据分布（例如高斯数据）和其他总线模型（例如具有交叉耦合电容）。其次，将本地开发的原型工具扩展到系统级功率估计，并开发原型测试平台以验证理论进展并作为教育工具。最后，为了提高理论结果的实际相关性，正在与工业伙伴一起探索在实际应用中实施低功耗代码。

This research is on design methodologies for low power VLSI design. Research activities include the following. First, developing an understanding of low-power I/O encodings and their application to practical problems. The approach is to obtain new practical Limited-Weight codes, and extend low-power coding methods to other data distributions (e.g. Gaussian data) and to other bus models (e.g. with cross-coupled capacitance). Second, extending a locally developed prototyping tool to system-level power estimation, and developing a prototyping test-bed for validating theoretical advances and as an education tool. Finally, an exploration of implementing low-power codes in real applications is being undertaken with industrial partners in order to improve the practical relevance of theoretical results.