What is BS IEC 61523-4 – Low-power integrated circuits about?
BS IEC 61523-4 is the fourth part of the BS IEC 61523 that discusses design and verification of low-power integrated circuits.
BS IEC 61523-4 establishes a format used to define the low-power design intent for electronic systems and electronic intellectual property (IP). The format provides the ability to specify the supply network, switches, isolation, retention, and other aspects relevant to the power management of an electronic system. BS IEC 61523-4 defines the relationship between the low-power design specification and the logic design specification captured via other formats [e.g., standard hardware description languages (HDLs)].
Who is BS IEC 61523-4 – Low-power integrated circuits for?
BS IEC 61523-4 on design and verification of low-power integrated circuits is useful for:
- Electric design automation industry
- Electrical engineers
- Semiconductor/ electronic companies
Why should you use BS IEC 61523-4 – Low-power integrated circuits?
Due to the physics of the smaller process nodes, power is leaked from transistors even when the circuitry is quiescent (no toggling of nodes from 0 to 1 or vice versa). New design techniques were developed to manage static power consumption.
The EDA industry responded with multiple vendors developing proprietary low-power specification capabilities for different design and implementation flow tools. Although this solved the problem locally for a given tool, it was not a global solution in that the same information was often required to be specified multiple times for different tools without portability of the power specification.
BS IEC 61523-4 provides a method for specifying power intent for an electronic design, for use in verification of the structure and behaviour of the design in the context of a given power management architecture, and for driving the implementation of that power management architecture. The method stated in BS IEC 61523-4 supports incremental refinement of power intent specifications required for IP-based design flows.
Overall, BS IEC 61523-4 provides portability of low-power design specifications that can be used with a variety of commercial products throughout an electronic system design, analysis, verification, and implementation flow.
