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This paper explores a novel approach to power reduction in circuit design through the duplication of logic and the use of parallelism, specifically in the implementation of a 32-bit adder. The study emphasizes maintaining operational speed while achieving significant power savings. By employing simulation tools like MODELSim and VHDL/Verilog, the findings reveal that parallelism is an effective technique for power reduction, although it introduces additional design complexity. The theoretical results closely align with the experimental data, ensuring practicality in circuit design.
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Power Reduction Technique Parallelism in circuitsusing duplication of logic ELEC 6270 By Sreekumar Menon
OUTLINE • Problem Definition • Steps for Implementation • Background Information • Experimental Results • Theoretical Results • Conclusion • Lessons
Problem Definition • Design a 32 bit adder with parallelism • Operational speed must be the same (throughput constant) • Show it to be an effective Power reduction scheme
Implementation Technique • MODELSim, Leonardo, Design Architect, Eldo • Technology used ami 0.5 • Delay calculation( 50 % of the rise time) • VHDL/Verilog • http://www.amis.com/pdf/process_specifications/c5_ss.pdf
Theoretical Calculations • Power = CVDD2 • The Delay versus Voltage graph can be used for interpolating the voltage levels for various degrees of parallelism
Conclusions • Parallelism is an effective power reduction technique • However, it causes extra designing effort • The theoretical calculations do not exactly match because the overhead hasn’t been taken into account in it
Lessons • Patience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
References • Dr Agrawal’s website • Mentor manuals