Low-power high-performance VLSI design
Low-power high-performance VLSI design is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 13.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the design and optimization of low-power VLSI circuits, with an emphasis on techniques such as approximate computing, subthreshold operation, and leakage reduction. The papers also address challenges related to process variation, statistical timing analysis, and energy efficiency in CMOS technology at the nanometer scale.
- Low-Power
- VLSI Circuits
- Approximate Computing
- Subthreshold Operation
- Leakage Reduction
- Process Variation
- Statistical Timing Analysis
- Energy Efficiency
- CMOS Technology
- Nanometer Scale
- Research works
- 36k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 4.9k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 13.8% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -14% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Low-power high-performance VLSI design research?
By volume, India and China publish the most (1.2k and 701 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 India 1.2k works
- 2 China 701 works
- 3 United States 532 works
- 4 South Korea 170 works
- 5 Germany 150 works
- 6 Japan 110 works
- 7 Italy 97 works
- 8 Iran 95 works
- 9 Taiwan 92 works
- 10 Brazil 74 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Low-power high-performance VLSI design research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham publishes the most Low-power high-performance VLSI design research, followed by Southeast University and Delhi Technological University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 40 works
- 2 Southeast UniversityChina 32 works
- 3 Delhi Technological UniversityIndia 31 works
- 4 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 30 works
- 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 27 works
- 6 Intel (United States)United States 27 works
- 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 27 works
- 8 Fudan UniversityChina 27 works
- 9 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 24 works
- 10 Peking UniversityChina 23 works
Who are the leading researchers in Low-power high-performance VLSI design?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Low-power high-performance VLSI design include Takashi Taniguchi and Luca Benini.
- 1 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 6.2k citations
- 2 Luca Benini Italy 4.6k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Low-power high-performance VLSI design research done?
The largest centres of Low-power high-performance VLSI design research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Bengaluru (India) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Clara and Vijayawada.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Santa ClaraUS · 36.7 works36×
- VijayawadaIN · 24.9 works14×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Low-power high-performance VLSI design than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Low-power high-performance VLSI design?
Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore and Chitkara University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia | 77.2 | 11.0% | 18.9× | 40 | +206.8% |
| 2 | International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreIndia | 76.2 | 18.2% | 54.8× | 16 | +201.1% |
| 3 | Chitkara UniversityIndia | 66.5 | 9.0% | 13.0× | 20 | +213.9% |
| 4 | University of BremenGermany | 53.5 | 15.9% | 8.7× | 8 | +39.9% |
| 5 | Delhi Technological UniversityIndia | 52.5 | 3.3% | 28.3× | 31 | +48.3% |
| 6 | Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for WomenIndia | 52.3 | 7.5% | 35.8× | 9 | +1011.1% |
| 7 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea | 50.8 | 8.4% | 10.2× | 18 | -48.3% |
| 8 | Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia | 50.3 | 4.9% | 16.1× | 18 | — |
| 9 | SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia | 49.9 | 13.1% | 5.5× | 18 | +67.8% |
| 10 | Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia | 49.4 | 2.2% | 7.8× | 30 | +106.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Low-power high-performance VLSI design research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 14% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.