VLSI Design, International Conference on
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Abstract

As supply voltage is scaled to below 1 V, leakage power becomes significant in CMOS ICs. This paper proposes novel circuit techniques in PD-SOI technology to reduce standby power in the sub-1 V regime by over three orders of magnitude while maintaining circuit speed and with minimal overhead. Simulation results obtained using process parameters from an IBM 0.13 m PD-SOI technology show considerable improvement over previously proposed methods as supply voltage is scaled to 0.5 V. A new design algorithm for efficient implementation of these PD-SOI standby power reduction schemes is also described.
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