Determination of power gating granularity for FPGA fabric

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 9-12

  Rahman, Arifur ^a   Das, Satyaki ^a   Tuan, Tim ^a   Trimberger, Steve ^a  

^a XILINX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINE-GRAIN POWER GATING; POWER GATING GRANULARITY;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LOGIC DESIGN; LOGIC GATES; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 39049161506     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2006.320938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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