Hi
This is a gentle reminder that academic registrations (85% discount) for 5-day "Low Power Design workshop using Sky130" closes in 36hours. Here's the link to register
There has been a steep increase in demand for Low Power Engineers in semi-conductor industry, and this workshop directly introduces you to those topics, which you can use as is for applying to low power jobs. Industry needs improved SoC design techniques to reduce power consumption and extended battery life, which in turn has resulted in rise in demand for low power engineers.
Here's the workshop day wise content. All the best and happy learning
Workshop Day wise Content:
Day 1 : Low Power Fundamentals:
- Why Low Power Design: Cost etc., Power vs. Performance, Not just mobile, Macro perspectives - Evs, Power Grids, Alternate energy
- Low Power Fundamentals, S/W to Device stack for power , Density, Delivery, Leakage, Lifetime - Calculations of each; Various strategies for low power.
- S/w , arch, logic, circuit, device
- Low power design vs power management; OSPM
- System level consideration
Day 2 & 3: Low Power Implementation and Design
- Low Power implementation
- Architectural
- Logic
- Circuit
- Device
- Multi-voltage design
- Fundamentals of Multi-Voltage
- Styles of MV/ 7 rail CMOS model/Voltage Aware Booleans
- Issues with MV styles
- Design issues with MV - review some notable failures
- UPF implementation and Verification of MV designs
- Connecting MV styles to OSPM
Day 4: Mobility and IOT
- Mobile and Mobility
- Mobile vs. Mobility
- 3 phase evolution
- Data Era
- Future of Mobility
- IOT Era
- Low Power Design in the IOT Era
- Connected Control, OPM etc.
- Examples
- Case studies-Aging in place, Industrial control
- Home Appliances/Wearable/Automotive
- Impact of Edge Computing
- BitCoin compute Challenges
Day 5: Future of Low Power Design, New Architectures and Labs review
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