The power consumption of microprocessors is one of the most important challenges of high-performance chips and portable devices. In chapters drawn from Piguet's recently published Low-Power Electronics Design, this volume focuses on the design of low-power microprocessors in deep submicron technologies. The first section presents the design of digital signal processors for embedded applications and techniques for reducing dynamic and static power at the electrical and system levels. The second part describes several aspects of low-power systems on chips, and the final section discusses embedded software issues, including details on compilers, retargetable compilers, and co-verification tools.

LOW-POWER PROCESSORS AND MEMORIES: Techniques for Power and Process Variation Minimization . Low-Power DSP's. Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Processors. Macgic, a Low-Power, re-configurable DSP. Low-Power Asynchronous Processors. Low-Power Baseband Processors for Communications. Stand-by Power Reduction for SRAM Memories. Low-Power Cache Design. Memory Organization for Low-Energy Embedded Systems. LOW-POWER SYSTEMS ON CHIPS: Power-Performance Tradeoffs in Design of SoCs. Low-Power SoC with Power-Aware Operating Systems Generation. Low Power Data Storage and Communication for SoC. Networks on Chips: Energy-Efficient Design of SoC interconnect. Highly Integrated Ultra-Low Power RF Transceivers for Wireless Sensor Networks. Power-Aware On-Demand Routing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. Modeling Computational, Sensing and Actuation Surfaces. EMBEDDED SOFTWARE: Low-Power Software Techniques. Low Power/Energy Compiler Optimizations. Design of Low Power Processor Cores using a Retargetable Tool Flow. Recent Advances in Low-power Design and Functional Co-verification Automation from the earliest system-level design stages.