Written by the world's most prominent microprocessor design leaders from industry and academia, this book provides complete coverage of all aspects of complex microprocessor design: technology, power management, clocking, high-performance architecture, design methodologies, memory and I/O design, computer aided design, testing and design for testability. The chapters provide state-of-the-art knowledge while including sufficient tutorial material to bring non-experts up to speed. A useful companion to design engineers working in related areas. Provides coverage of the aspects of a complex microprocessor design process from technology, power management, clocking, and more. This book is intended for design engineers working in the related areas and a source of technical information as well as a comprehensive reference in the field. It is also useful for technical and business managers. Introduction vii Vojin G. Oklobdzija and Ram K. Krishnamurthy 1(1) 1 Ultra-low power processor design 1(30) Christian Piguet 2 Design of energy-efficient digital circuits 31(26) Bart Zeydel and Vojin G. Oklobdzija 3 Clocked storage elements in digital systems 57(32) Nikola Nedovic and Vojin G. Oklobdzija 4 Static memory design 89(32) Nestoras Tzartzanis 5 Large-scale circuit placement 121(26) Ameya R. Agnihotri, Satoshi Ono, Mehmet Can Yildiz, and Patrick H. Madden 6 Energy-delay characteristics of CMOS adders 147(24) Vojin G Oklobdzija and Bart R. Zeydel 7 High-performance energy-efficient dual-supply ALU design 171(18) Sanu K. Mathew, Mark A. Anders, and Rain K. Krishnamurthy 8 Binary floating-point unit design: the fused multiply-add dataflow 189(20) Eric Schwarz 9 Microprocessor architecture for yield enhancement and reliable operation 209(26) Hisashige Ando 10 How is bandwidth used in computers? 235(54) Phil Emma 11 High-speed IO design 289(22) Warren R. Anderson 12 Processor core and low power SoC design for embedded systems 311(26) Naohiko Irie Index 337