Architecture and Design Flow Optimizations for Power-Aware FPGAs:Low-Power Circuit Techniques.
Low-Power Circuit Techniques Now let us look at some circuit techniques for reducing power in FPGAs. An obvious approach would be to resize all transistors for optimal power. Since this approach applies equally well to any integrated circuit, we do not discuss this further. Instead, in this section, we describe some of the techniques proposed specifically for FPGAs. One technique to reduce dynamic power consumption in the routing is to use a low-swing interconnect circuit, which uses a lower voltage in the routing fabric. A drawback of most conventional low-swing techniques is the slow speed of the receiver circuit, and the short-circuit current at the receiver end. George et al. [7] mitigated this problem by employing cascode circuitry and differential circuits at the receiver (see Figure 20.6). They assumed pass-transistor switches in the switch blocks, and modified the drivers and receivers for connections with the CLB output and input pins, respectively. This low-swing circuit re...
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