Low Power Design

Tajana Simunic, Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, "Energy-Efficient Design of Battery-Powered Embedded Systems," Proceedings 1999 international symposium on Low power electronics and design, 1999 , San Diego, USA, ACM Press, Pages: 212 - 217.  <p212-simunic.pdf>

Srinivas Devadas Sharad Malik, "A Survey of Optimization Techniques Targeting Low Power VLSI Circuits," 32nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 1995.   <p242-devadas.pdf>

David J. Pursley, Sari L. Coumeri, Donald E. Thomas, "The Effectiveness of Transition Counting as a Predictor of Relative Energy Consumption," na. <cmu-TCount.pdf>

Example of modern mobile processor    Samsung Orion

Internal circuit of a basic  Transistor Transistor Logic gate:  a NOT gate, 7404.

7404 NOT gate TTL

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