Synthesis Of Low Power Linear Digital Signal Processing Circuits Using Activity Metrics

Abstract

Low power linear digital signal processing circuits are fabricated based on a design synthesis process using activity metrics. The average activity value Θi of all the input nodes of the circuit is determined. Architectural transformations of the circuit are performed in order to minimize the average activity value over all the nodes. The transformation resulting in the minimum activity value is the synthesized design used as the basis for fabricating a low power linear digital signal processing circuit.