Table of Contents

I Low Power Design Methods.- 1 Motivation, Context and Objectives.- 2 Sources of power dissipation in CMOS circuits.- 3 Logic level Power Optimization.- 4 Circuit-Level Low-Power Design.- 5 Circuit Techniques for Reducing Power Consumption in Adders and Multipliers.- 6 Computer Arithmetic Techniques for Low-Power Systems.- 7 Reducing Power Consumption in Memories.- 8 Low-Power Clock, Interconnect and Layout Designs.- 9 Logic Level Power Estimation.- II Low Power Design Stories.- 10 Low-Power Design for Safety-Critical Applications.- 11 Design of a Low Power Ultrasound Beamformer ASIC.- 12 Epilogue.