A technique for computing the switching activity of synchronous finite state machine (FSM) implementations including the influence of temporal correlation ...

As an application of this method, the next state activity information is utilized for low power optimiza- tion in the synthesis of Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) ...

In CMOS based digital circuits switching activity is one of the main contributors to overall power dissipation [7]. In order to op- timize a circuit for low ...

Switching activity estimation of finite state machines for low power synthesis. Kerttu M., Lindgren P., Thornton M., Drechsler R.

The technique is based on an approximation method for switching activity estimation. In the case of finite state machines, the presented method extracts signal ...

Abstract. This paper presents a state assignment technique to reduce dynamic power consumption in finite state machines (FSM).

The aim of the power-saving state assignment is to reduce the switching activity of a resulting FSM circuit.

In order to devise an improved low power synthesis method for BDD-mapped circuits an accurate and computationally efficient switching activity estimation method ...

In static CMOS circuits, the probabilistic switching activity of nodes in the circuit is a good measure of the average power dissipa- tion of the circuit.

Focusing the low power design of synchronous finite state machines (FSM) our paper presents a novel approach to reduce switching events by a profiling-based ...