For this implementation example, the total leakage-power contribution of the decap cells ranges from 16.900 to 27.040 mW, which is less than 1% of the 3-W core power budget.

Die photo of the Intel Pentium processor with standard cells highlighted in red. The edges of the chip suffered some damage when I removed the metal layers. (Credit: Ken Shirriff) ...

Tiny Tapeout 3 was the third running, with designs mandated to be made up of simple digital standard cells. Only, a guy by the name of [Harald Pretl] found a way to make an analog circuit using ...