Power Management Design and Verification

Power consumption has become the key differentiating factor for many different types of semiconductor products. This has led to recent advances in power management techniques to address power consumption in these products. These include power management techniques such as power gating, adaptive voltage and frequency scaling, and active body-bias that leverage voltage as a handle to manage power consumption. We look into an overview of these techniques and the resulting new challenges facing the functional validation of a system-on-a-chip.