POWER AND COST ISSUES NECESSITATE RETHINKING DIGITAL DESIGN. TO REDUCE DESIGN COSTS, WE NEED TO STOP BUILDING CHIP INSTANCES, AND START MAKING CHIP GENERATORS INSTEAD. DOMAIN-SPECIFIC CHIP GENERATORS ARE TEMPLATES THAT CODIFY DESIGNER KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN

......Over the past two decades, chip designers have leveraged technology scaling and rising power budgets to rapidly scale performance, but we can no longer follow this path. Today, most chips are power lim-ited, and changes to technology scaling be-yond 90 nm have severely compromised our ability to keep power in check. Conse-quently, almost all systems designed today, from high-performance servers to wireless sensors, are becoming energy constrained. Years of research have taught us that the best—and perhaps only—way to save en-ergy is to cut waste. Thus, clock and power gating have become common tech