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Low-Power Design for Video Compression
* H.264/AVC Used to Decode Over 80% of Video Content Online
* Voltage Scaling and Parallelism to Reduce Power Consumption

Delay

SRAM
3.3 mm

Energy per
Operation

3.3 mm
176 I/O Pads

2T
T
Supply Voltage

Core
Domain
Memory Controller
Domain
[Sze, JSSC 2009]

Achieves High-Definition (720-p at 30 fps) Decoding at Under 2 mW
Over 6x Lower Power Than State of the Art
[Joint Work With Anantha Chandrakasan, Daniel Finchelstein, Mahmut Sinangil]

A slide from Prof. Sze's presentation, showing the delay and energy consumption relationship for video compression applications. AVC:
advanced video coding; I/O: input/output; SRAM: static random-access memory; JSSC: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; fps: frames
per second.

Good News: We're Not Done Yet....
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Another slide from Prof. Murmann's presentation.

for opportunities and fostering collaboration as a necessity for success. Murmann offered an optimistic
"sandwich" analogy to convince the
audience that IC designers are perfectly positioned to collaborate and
contribute. The presentation concluded with a live Q&A. The webinar is now available at the IEEE SSCS
Resource Center. Going forward, our

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goal is to offer quarterly WYE installments. Stay tuned for upcoming
WYE announcements.
Testimonials from webinar participants included the following:
■■ "The webinar was well organized,
and the speakers were clear and
informative. With the AI space becoming a major part of the future
of electronics, this webinar was

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a nice introduction to the space
from a circuits perspective." -Dr.
Imran Ahmed, StarIC, Canada
"Pure joy listening to the two
delightful presentations by the
academic leaders in circuit design for AI, one digitally oriented
and the other with some interesting analog twists. I feel inspired
to dive deeper into this exciting
area that will certainly spawn
lots of circuit design activities
in the near future. Too bad that
Boris has publicly denied the existence of AI...." -Prof. R. Bogdan
Staszewski, University College
Dublin, Ireland
"It was a great pleasure listening
to the professors, who are leading
the possible intersection between
circuit design and AI. As an analog designer, I enjoyed exploring
areas on which I can make an impact. The key nontechnical advice
to me was "Be an expert in some
field, but stay open to opportunities outside your comfort zone."
-Baris Volkan Yildirim, STMicroelectronics, Singapore
"Profs. Sze's and Murmann's excellent presentations showed the
necessity of considering the 'full
stack,' from the semiconductors



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