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This paper presents the evaluation in power consumption of a clocking technique for pipelined designs. The technique shows a dynamic power consumption saving of around 30% over a conventional global clocking mechanism. The results were obtained from a series of experiments of a systolic circuit implemented in Virtex-II devices. The conversion from a global-clocked pipelined design to the proposed technique is straightforward, preserving the original datapath design. The savings can be used immediately either as a power reduction benefit or to increase the frequency of operation of a design for the same power consumption.
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Cadenas, O., Megson, G. (2002). A Clocking Technique with Power Savings in Virtex-Based Pipelined Designs. In: Glesner, M., Zipf, P., Renovell, M. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream. FPL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46117-5_34
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