Low-Power Design Techniques in Digital Systems

Abstract

This talk addresses issues in designing digital systems operating with the minimal use of energy. A range of topics will be covered such as: power trends in relation to the device and voltage scaling, measures of power efficiency and the choice of the optimal design point, different circuit families for logic and for clocked storage elements and factors that influence power. Use of multiple power supply and threshold voltages and dynamic voltage scaling is addressed. A set of comparison of different design points is presented.

Speaker Biography

Prof. Vojin G. Oklobdzija, obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1982, MSc degree in 1978 and Dipl. Ing. (MScEE) from the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1971.
From 1982 to 1991 he was at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in New York where he worked on development of RISC architecture and processors and super-scalar RISC, IBM RS/6000 (PowerPC) in particular, on which he co-holds a patent on Register-Renaming. From 1988-90 he was visiting faculty at the University of California Berkeley while on leave from IBM. Since 1991 Prof. Oklobdzija has held various consulting and academic positions. He was consultant to Sun Microsystems Laboratories, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hitachi Research Laboratories and Siemens Corp. where he was principal architect for the new generation of embedded logic and memory processors.
Currently he is advisor to SONY and Fujitsu Labs. Prof. Oklobdzija has academic appointment with the University of California and various visiting academic appointments. He was a Fulbright professor in South America were he was helping in setting the university curriculums. Prof. Oklobdzija holds nine U.S., six European, one Japan and one Taiwan patents and five other US patents currently pending. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of American Association of the University Professors. He is serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transaction of VLSI Systems, and as a program committee member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
He was a General Chair of the 13th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Vice Chair at the International Conference on Computer Design and program committee member of the International Symposium on VLSI Technology. He has published over 120 papers and has given over 100 invited talks and short courses in the USA, Europe, Latin America, Australia, China and Japan.