This paper presents the application of reinforcement learning in automatic analog IC design. In this work, the Multi-Objective approach by Learning Automata is evaluated for accommodating required functionalities and performance specifications considering optimal minimizing of MOSFETs area and power consumption for two famous CMOS op-amps. The results show the ability of the proposed method to ...

the impulse response can be either finite or infinite. The methods for designing and implementing these two filter classes differ considerably. Finite impulse response (FIR) filters are digital filters whose response to unit impulse (unit sample function) is finite in duration. This paper presents the design of low power FIR filter and area efficient parallel linear phase FIR digital filter. Lo...

0038-1101/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.sse.2008.06.045 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +32 10 47 8134; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Bo vain.be (R. Ambroise), [email protected] ( [email protected] (J.-D. Legat). For ultra-low-power applications, digital integrated circuits may operate at low frequency to reduce dynamic power consumption. At high ...

A key characteristic of Personal Area Networks (PANs) is the premium placed on reducing the power consumption of device computation and communication. In such an environment some devices may be more capable of communicating with others simply because of their power capability (i.e., reserve). We propose a \power-aware" routing protocol capable of routing packets in Personal Area Networks based ...

Today power consumption is considered to be one of the important issues. Therefore, its reduction plays a considerable role in developing systems. Previous studies have shown that approximately 50% of total power consumption is used in cache memories. There is a direct relationship between power consumption and replacement quantity made in cache. The less the number of replacements is, the less...

wireless sensor networks(wsn) have unique properties that distinguished them from other wireless networks and have special challenges. not-chargeable, not-changeable and limited power supplies of sensor nodes is the most important challenge of this networks, and if the power supply of node expired, a part of data maybe lost. because of the importance of covers in wireless sensors, in this work ...

To improve the performance of an SRAM cell and reduce the area consumption, researchers are scaling down the technology node of MOSFET. But power consumption is not yet improved below 65-nm technology node. Since then the VDD (supply voltage) remains more or less constant and dynamic power consumption improvement is almost stagnated, while leakage current increases exponentially. Hence, prime a...

Skew is one of the most important parameter that decides the performance of the system. Though skews are reduced using two-stage(low and high voltage levels) serially connected power mode aware buffers(PMABs) using two power gating techniques-Fine grain technique at high voltage level and Coarse grain technique at low voltage level, the power consumption and area is large incase of fine grain t...