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Publication
ASYNC 1996
Conference paper
The energy and entropy of VLSI computations
Abstract
We introduce the concept of energy index, a measure which can be used to estimate the pourer dissipation of a standard implementation of the high-level specification for an asynchronous circuit. This energy index is related to information-theoretic entropy measures. It is shown how these measures can be used to design low-power circuits.