DEVELOPING A LOW POWER PROCESSOR BASED ON A 14 NM TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

A design for implementating a ChipTop processor is introduced. Two low power design methods were applied during the design of the processor. Different parts of Integrated Circuits (IC) were designed with different voltage domains and some cells were replaced with high-threshold and low-threshold voltage instances. The implementation of the first method decreased the dynamic part of the power, and the second method allowed to decrease the static one. The design was implemented with a 14 nm technology. The results were compared with the design which was implemented without low power methods.