Accurate power estimation of CMOS sequential circuits

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-380

  Chou, Tan Li ^a,b   Roy, Kaushik ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GRAPH THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

LOGIC LEVEL SIMULATION; STATE TRANSITION GRAPH; STATISTICAL POWER ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE; USER SPECIFIED PARAMETERS;

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030242649     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.532037     Document Type: Article

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