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Lazy Man’s Resynthesis For Glitching-Aware Power Minimization

Costamagna, Andrea  
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Xu, Xiaoqing
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De Micheli, Giovanni  
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May 5, 2025
2025 28th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS)
28th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS 2025)

This paper presents a novel resynthesis engine for minimizing the dynamic power of digital circuits. Traditional logic synthesis methods primarily focus on zero-delay toggles—logic state changes occurring between the start and end of a clock cycle. In contrast, our engine targets both zero-delay toggles and glitches, unintended transitions within a clock cycle caused by path imbalances. Glitches significantly contribute to power consumption in arithmetic circuits, making their minimization a critical challenge in electronic design. The proposed method uses a database of Pareto-optimal netlists to replace sub-networks in the target circuit with power-efficient alternatives. These replacements are guided by a simulation-driven cost function that evaluates workload-independent switching activity and penalizes gates with high fan-out. We call our approach Lazy Man’s Resynthesis because it builds on an algorithm named Lazy Man’s Synthesis, extending it from technology-independent delay optimization to post-mapping power optimization. Applied to the ISCAS and EPFL benchmarks, our method reduces glitching activity by 4.72% and dynamic power by 9.44%, achieving a 7.61% improvement over the state-of-the-art.

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DOI
10.1109/ddecs63720.2025.11006815
Author(s)
Costamagna, Andrea  

EPFL

Xu, Xiaoqing
De Micheli, Giovanni  

EPFL

Ruic, Dino
Date Issued

2025-05-05

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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2025 28th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS)
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1109/DDECS63720.2025
ISBN of the book

979-8-3315-2801-0

Start page

92

End page

98

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REVIEWED

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28th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS 2025)

DDECS 2025

Lyon, France

2025-05-05 - 2025-05-07

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May 22, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/250380
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