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Abstract
Although power concerns have been at the forefront for the last decade, they've always been considered a second rate
citizen with respect to other design metrics. Today however, few will dispute that CMOS has entered the "power-limited
scaling regime", with power dissipation becoming the limiting factor on what can be integrated on a chip and how fast
it can run. Even more, the feasibility of some exciting and paradigm-shifting applications is totally determined by the
availability of energy, and hence can be labeled "energy-starved".
Many approaches have been introduced to address the concerns regarding both active and standby power. Yet none of these
provides a persistent answer that extends into the foreseeable future. Getting to the next step will require us to
venture in new directions, some of which may be quite unorthodox. In this presentation, a “roadmap” for low-power design
for the next decade will be outlined. For each of the roadmap stages, examples of research results, as currently being
conducted at universities and research institutes worldwide, will be shown to illustrate the potential.
Jan M. Rabaey Jan Rabaey received his EE and Ph.D degrees in applied sciences from the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. From 1983-1985, he was connected to UC Berkeley as a
Visiting Research Engineer and from 1985-1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium. In 1987,
he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the
University of California, Berkeley, where he now holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship.
From 1999 until 2002, he was the Associate Chair of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He is currently
the scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of the
MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC). He is an IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Rabaey serves on the technical advisory board of a range of companies and research institutes focused
in the areas of design automation, semiconductor intellectual property and wireless systems.
His current research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems.
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