Power Dissipation basics

                    The three main goals in chip design are timing, area and power. But because of the raise in mobile phones and smartphones the battery life of handheld devices became a major selling point in the market rather than the speed of the processor and area. Hence an architect of the chip must design the chip with minimum power dissipation possible. There are many techniques for reducing the total power and peak power dissipation. Before that we need to understand the cause for the power dissipation and the parameters involved in it. Based on the parameters that contribute to the power dissipation we might find some techniques that can be employed to reduce the power.