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Design Technology: A Conventional Perspective

Today’s Design Methodologies Will Not Scale Much Further

Chip Interconnect Systems

Design Technology: A Revolutionary Perspective

An Opportunity for New Leadership

Our Approach

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Advanced CMOS Design Methodology

Process Technology Issues

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Electrical Circuit Design Issues

Design Technology Issues

System Architectural Issues

Other Key Issues

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VT Design Issues

Issues in Low VDD and Low Vth Design

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Various Pass-Transistor Logic Circuits

Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) in SAPL

Example of a Pass-Transistor Logic Library

MOSTL Pass Transistor Logic Synthesis(Sakurai, Lin, Newton, UCB/ERL Memo 90/2, March 1990)

MOSTL: Switches from BDDs

Mapping BDD to MOS Circuit

MOSTL: Relay3 Example

MOSTL: Issues and Their Resolution

Multi-Threshold CMOS Circuit

Self-Adjusting Threshold Scheme (SATS)

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Standby Power Reduction (SPR) Circuit

Mixed Circuit-Logic Optimization

Overall Approach to Sequential Optimization

What We Need

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