This paper presents the design of high performance and low power arithmetic circuits using a new cmos dynamic logic family, and analyzes its sensitivity against technology parameters for practical applications. The pr...
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This paper presents the design of high performance and low power arithmetic circuits using a new cmos dynamic logic family, and analyzes its sensitivity against technology parameters for practical applications. The proposed dynamic logic family allows for a partial evaluation in a computational block before its input signals are valid, and quickly performs a final evaluation as soon as the inputs arrive. The proposed dynamic logic family is well suited to arithmetic circuits where the critical path is made of a large cascade of inverting gates. Furthermore, circuits based on the proposed concept perform better in high fanout and high switching frequencies due to both lower delay and dynamic power consumption. Experimental results, for practical circuits, demonstrate that low power feature of the propose dynamic logic provides for smaller propagation time delay (3.5 times), lower energy consumption (55%), and similar combined delay, power consumption and active area product (only 8% higher), while exhibiting lower sensitivity to power supply, temperature, capacitive load and process variations than the dynamic domino cmos technologies. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper, a newly improved dynamic current mode logic (I-DyCML) is proposed to achieve low power dissipation. The principle used in I-DyCML is the reduction of the leakage current by turning the part of the circu...
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In this paper, a newly improved dynamic current mode logic (I-DyCML) is proposed to achieve low power dissipation. The principle used in I-DyCML is the reduction of the leakage current by turning the part of the circuit to "standby mode", when not in use, while achieving lower dynamic power during the active mode. HSpice simulations show that I-DyCML saves up to 15-30% of the total power dissipation when compared to Dynamic Current mode logic.
Dynamic cmos gates are widely exploited in high-performance designs because of their speed. However, they suffer from high noise sensitivity. The main reason for this is the sub-threshold leakage current flowing throu...
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Dynamic cmos gates are widely exploited in high-performance designs because of their speed. However, they suffer from high noise sensitivity. The main reason for this is the sub-threshold leakage current flowing through the evaluation network. This problem becomes more and more severe with continuous scaling of the technology. A new circuit technique for increasing the noise tolerance of dynamic cmos gates is studied. A comparison with previously reported schemes is presented. Simulations proved that, when 90 nm cmos technology is used to realise wide fan-in gates, the proposed design technique can achieve the highest level of noise robustness. A 16 bits OR gate designed as proposed here shows a maximum unity noise gain of 675 mV, a computational delay of similar to 115 ps and an energy dissipation of similar to 33 fJ. Moreover, at the parity of energy-delay product (EDP), the novel approach achieves a noise robustness 10% higher than the most efficient technique existing in the literature, whereas, at the parity of noise robustness, it exhibits an EDP 33% lower.
Effective optimization methods aimed at achieving maximal speeds in single-technology logiccircuits are widely available but systematic ways suitable for circuits involving mixtures of logic families are not. The com...
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Effective optimization methods aimed at achieving maximal speeds in single-technology logiccircuits are widely available but systematic ways suitable for circuits involving mixtures of logic families are not. The combination of standard cmos with CPL (complementary pass-transistor logic) is examined with an eye to finding the best structure and the best insertion points for cmos buffers intended to improve a CPL chain's propagation time and drive capability.
This paper proposes a design for signed-digit cmos (SD-cmos) basic circuits, such as a driver circuit, an inverter circuit, and a full-adder circuit, and describes a parallel multiplier circuit capable of high-speed o...
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This paper proposes a design for signed-digit cmos (SD-cmos) basic circuits, such as a driver circuit, an inverter circuit, and a full-adder circuit, and describes a parallel multiplier circuit capable of high-speed operation with a time of about 10 nsec independent of the bit length. The proposed cmos basic circuits utilize a multi-voltage power supply to enable dynamic operation with pre-charged output terminals at signal level 0 (VDD1). This design methodology is applicable to arithmetic circuits for highly accurate, high-speed processors.
Fault-tolerant design methods for VLSI circuits, which have traditionally been addressed at system level, will not be adequate for future very-deep submicron cmos devices where serious degradation of reliability is ex...
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Fault-tolerant design methods for VLSI circuits, which have traditionally been addressed at system level, will not be adequate for future very-deep submicron cmos devices where serious degradation of reliability is expected. Therefore, a new design approach has been considered at low level of abstraction in order to implement robustness and fault-tolerance into these devices. Moreover, fault tolerant properties of multi-layer feed-forward artificial neural networks have been demonstrated. Thus, we have implemented this concept at circuit-level, using spiking neurons. Using this approach, the NOT, NAND and NOR Boolean gates have been developed in the AMS 0.35 mum cmos technology. A very straightforward mapping between the value of a neural weight and one physical parameter of the circuit has also been achieved. Furthermore, the logic gates have been simulated using SPICE corners analysis which emulates manufacturing variations which may cause circuit faults. Using this approach, it can be shown that fault-absorbing neural networks that operate as the desired function can be built.
A low-power, three-lane, pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generator has been fabricated in a 0.18-mum cmos process to test a multilane multi-Gb/s transmitter that cancels far-end crosstalk. Although the proposed PRBS ...
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A low-power, three-lane, pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generator has been fabricated in a 0.18-mum cmos process to test a multilane multi-Gb/s transmitter that cancels far-end crosstalk. Although the proposed PRBS generator was designed to produce three uncorrelated 12-Gb/s PRBS sequences, measurement results included in this paper have been obtained at only 5 Gb/s due to test setup limitations. The prototype employs a cmos latch optimized to operate at frequencies close to the of the process and a current-mode logic (CML) MUX with modified active inductor loads for better high-speed large-signal behavior. In order to reduce the power consumption, a quarter-clock rate linear feedback shift register (LFSR) core in a power-efficient parallel architecture has been implemented to minimize the use of power-hungry, high-speed circuitry. Further power reduction has been achieved through the clever partitioning of the system into static logic and CML. In addition, the prototype design produces three uncorrelated 12-Gb/s data streams from a single quarter-rate LFSR core, thereby amortizing the power across multiple channels which lowers the power per channel by 3 times. The total measured power consumption at 5 Gb/s is 131 mW per lane and the calculated figure of merit per lane is 0.84 pJ/bit, which is significantly better than previously published designs.
This paper presents a power-gating scheme for CAL (clocked adiabatic logic) circuits to reduce energy loss during idle state. A transmission gate is used as the power-gating switch. It is inserted between the single-p...
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This paper presents a power-gating scheme for CAL (clocked adiabatic logic) circuits to reduce energy loss during idle state. A transmission gate is used as the power-gating switch. It is inserted between the single-phase power-clock and virtual power-clocks to detach power-gated CAL logic blocks during idle periods. The 8-bit full adders based on the CAL circuits are used to verify the proposed power-gating technique. All circuits are simulated using the BSIM3V3 models of TSMC 0.18 mum cmos technology. Energy loss can be reduced greatly by shutting down idle adiabatic logic blocks.
In this paper, we present a new radiation tolerant cmos standard cell library, and demonstrate its effectiveness in implementing radiation hardened digital circuits. We exploit the fact that if a gate is implemented u...
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In this paper, we present a new radiation tolerant cmos standard cell library, and demonstrate its effectiveness in implementing radiation hardened digital circuits. We exploit the fact that if a gate is implemented using only PMOS (NMOS) transistors then a radiation particle strike can result only in logic a 0 to 1 (1 to 0) flip. Based on this observation, we derive our radiation hardened gates from regular static cmos gates. In particular, we separate the PMOS and NMOS devices, and split the gate output into two signals. One of these outputs of our radiation tolerant gate is generated using PMOS transistors, and it drives other PMOS transistors (only) in its fanout. Similarly, the other output (generated from NMOS transistors) drives only other NMOS transistors in its fanout. Now, if a radiation particle strikes one of the outputs of the radiation tolerant gate, then the gates in the fanout enter a high-impedance state, and hence preserve their output values. Our radiation hardened gates exhibit an extremely high degree of SEU tolerance, which is validated at the circuit level. Using these gates, we also implement circuit level hardening based on logical masking, to selectively harden those gates in a circuit which contribute most to the soft error failure of the circuit. The gates with a low probability of logical masking are replaced by SEU tolerant gates from our new library, such that the digital design achieves a 90% soft error rate reduction. Experimental results demonstrate that this reduction is achieved with a modest layout area and delay penalty of 62% and 29% respectively, for area mapped designs. In contrast with existing approaches, our approach results in SEU immunity for extremely large critical charge values (>650fC).
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