Your project/scope is too broad. You need to narrow it down before you can do anything worthwhile. In wireless devices, you could use Electric for Power Ampflier Design. Investigate various layout topologies and how they relate to power consumption, heat management, while meeting design specifications. However, here you will need to know about RF devices.
If you are working with mobile devices, you may want to investigate the ARM core and how to do SoC design (a topic that has been beaten to death in academia) in a limited power environment. In this scenario, Electric will be of limited use. Maybe a good project for undergrad/MS-level students is using Electric to implement low power DSP circuits. On Dec 7, 12:43 am, Raj Lamsal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > greetings, > i thank you for your valuable suggestion .i am planning to do few topics on > low power VLSI systems with performance oriented.basically my idea is to > optimize power and performnce of portable,mobile,wireless devices. > could you suggest me where should i start from what are the useful tools > that i can work on, can electric help me doing these,looking forward for > your valuable suggestions. > > regards > RAJ > > > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:58 AM, pallav <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 11:33 pm, Raj Lamsal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > can electric be used for low power vlsi design i mean wheather it can > > > measure the power consumption at the transistor level (circuit level) > > > It can be used for "low-power" design if you layout the low power > > circuits. I don't think it can measure power consumption directly as > > one of the variable it depends upon is switching activity (dependent > > upon the input vectors). You can however do capacitance extraction. > > Maybe IRSIM can do dynamic power calculation since its a switch-level > > simulator. > > > For large-scale circuits, you are better off estimating power at the > > RTL/netlist level. Transistor-level will be time-consuming (especially > > doing logic-simulation to determine switching activity of each gate). > > > At the cell level, you can do Spice deck generation and use a any > > Spice simulator to measure power consumption of the cell. Not very > > practical for big circuits. Depends on your requirements/needs. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Electric VLSI Editor" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<electricvlsi%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/electricvlsi?hl=en. > > -- > RRLAMSAL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Electric VLSI Editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/electricvlsi?hl=en.
