02-2024 Download Paper An abbreviated edition was published on EENews (02-23-2024) Abstract Power-efficiency has been an increasing design consideration in virtually all new silicon in the past 15 years. Power-first designs, however, typically appear only in niche applications such as IoT. A 2023 retrospective paper of a research lab’s 2002 circuit, using a technique called “drowsy logic,” reviewed historical strategies to limit leakage in the context of foundries’ recent implementation of low-leakage FinFET and Gate-All-Around technologies....

02-2024 Download Paper Abstract The Magic School Bus travels to the Ocean floor, and the Mariana Trench to better understand Sub-Threshold Voltage. In this high impedance Ocean, the analogy of low-power computation is made, along with comparison to Morse lamps and SeaLab 2021. Like the quote, “Do fish know they’re wet?,” impedance is compared to hydrostatic pressure.