Synthesis of a TI MSP430 microcontroller core using Multi-Voltage methodology

This paper describes about Implementation of Multi-Voltage low power methodology for power optimization. Here Multi-Voltage methodology is applied to MSP430 16-bit microcontroller core using TSMC 65nm & 45nm NLDM libraries. The optimized power values are shown and compared among the libraries. Synopsys Power Compiler tool is used for synthesis and implementing the Methodology. Final Summary and Conclusion provided is based on the results obtained practically after implementation. Reports generated after synthesis state that there is 96.4% reduction in leakage power and 26.7% reduction in dynamic power for 65nm NLDM library and 94.4% reduction in leakage power and 37.8% reduction in dynamic power for 45nm NLDM library.