On-Chip Power Gating Technique

Electronic equipment has long been indispensable to modern society. Previous large-scale computers were downsized and made widespread by personal computers. Meanwhile, information technologies spread to cars, consumer electronics, and mobile telephones. As a result, the information processors spread so widely that it is now called ubiquitous computing. To make ubiquitous computing more substantial, it must be accelerated to develop new benefits, such as mutual communication and organic connection among them. The LSIs equipped to each device will become more indispensable for higher speed and lower power operation.