嵌入式系统的高速CMOS模拟数字转换器

This book results from of a large European project started in 1997, whose

goal is to promote the further development and the faster and wider industrial

use of advanced design methods for reducing the power consumption

of electronic systems.

Low power design became crucial with the wide spread of portable information

and communication terminals, where a small battery has to last

for a long period. High performance electronics, in addition, suffers from a

permanent increase of the dissipated power per square millimeter of silicon,

due to the increasing clock-rates, which causes cooling and reliability problems

or otherwise limits the performance.

The European Union's Information Technologies Programme 'Esprit' did

therefore launch a 'Pilot action for Low Power Design', which eventually

grew to 19 R&D projects and one coordination project, with an overall

budget of 14 million EURO. It is meanwhile known as European Low Power

Initiative for Electronic System Design (ESD-LPD) and will be completed in

the year 2002. It involves to develop or demonstrate new design methods for

power reduction, while the coordination project takes care that the methods,

experiences and results are properly documented and publicised.

The initiative addresses low power design at various levels. This includes

system and algorithmic level, instruction set processor level, custom processor

level, RT-level, gate level, circuit level and layout level. It covers data

dominated and control dominated as well as asynchronous architectures. 10

projects deal mainly with digital, 7 with analog and mixed-signal, and 2

with software related aspects. The principal application areas are communication,

medical equipment and e-commerce devices.

The following list describes the objectives of the 20 projects. It is sorted by

decreasing funding budget.