Rapid development of portable systems like laptops, PDAs, digital wrist watches, implantable pacemakers and cell phones require low power consumption and high density ICs, and that leads to a surge of ...

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...

One of the most common methods of reducing power lost due to chip leakage is to use a multiple-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) cell as a switch to turn the power supply (or ground) off for inactive partitions ...