As the technology moves into deep sub-micron region, the power consumption of the integrated circuit will be more. In the current technologies, the leakage power is the major part in the total power consumption. Power gating is a technique which is used to reduce the leakage power by shutting off the idle logic blocks using sleep transistors. Different power gating methods are available now. Th...

-Power management techniques that leverage voltage as a handle are being extensively used in power sensitive designs. These techniques include power gating, power gating with retention, multiple supply voltages, dynamic voltage scaling, adaptive voltage scaling, multi-threshold CMOS, and active body bias. The use of the power management techniques also imply new challenges in validation and tes...

The authors sought to compare power output at blood lactate threshold, maximal lactate steady state, and pH threshold with the average power output during a simulated 20-km time trial assessed during cycle ergometry. Participants (N = 13) were trained male and female cyclists and triathletes, all permanent residents at moderate altitude (1,525-2,225 m). Testing was performed at 1,525 or 1,860 m...

[Purpose] Postural assessment and correction is a common approach in patient management to decrease symptoms and improve function for patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of high-power posing on muscle strength and pain threshold. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-one subjects, 16 females and 15 males, mean age 28.9 (SD 10.8) years old, were recruited through a convenien...

Microresonator-based frequency combs (microcombs or Kerr combs) can potentially miniaturize the numerous applications of conventional frequency combs. A priority is the realization of broadband (ideally octave spanning) spectra at detectable repetition rates for comb self-referencing. However, access to these rates involves pumping larger mode volumes and hence higher threshold powers. Moreover...

The need for low power dissipation in portable computing and wireless communication is making design communities accept ultra low voltage CMOS processes. With the lowering of' supply voltage, the transistor thresholds (Vth) have to be scaled down to meet the performance requirements. However, such scaling can increase the leakage current through a transistor, thereby increasing the leakage powe...

Many phenomenological models of the responses of simple cells in primary visual cortex have concluded that a cell's firing rate should be given by its input raised to a power greater than one. This is known as an expansive power-law nonlinearity. However, intracellular recordings have shown that a different nonlinearity, a linear-threshold function, appears to give a good prediction of firing r...

Near threshold circuits (NTC) are an attractive and promising technology that provides significant power savings with some delay penalty. The feasibility of NTC technology with MOS Current Mode Logic (MCML) based on a 14 nm FinFET process is examined in this work. A 32 bit Kogge Stone adder is chosen as a demonstration vehicle for simulation and feasibility analysis. MCML is shown to yield enha...

A systematic X-ray survey of the most energetic rotationpowered pulsars known, based on spin-down energy loss rate, Ė = Iωω̇, shows that all energetic pulsars with Ė > Ėc ≈ 3.4 × 10 36 erg s are X-ray bright, manifest a distinct pulsar wind nebula (PWN), and are associated with a supernova event, either historically or via a thermal remnant, with over half residing in shell-like supernova remnan...

This paper describes a low power threshold logic-gate based on a capacitive input, charge recycling differential sense amplifier latch. The gate is shown to have low power dissipation and high operating speed, as well as robustness under process, temperature and supply voltage variations. This is followed by the main result, which is the development of a novel, low depth, carry lookahead additi...