• DocumentCode
    1140115
  • Title

    Energy control and accurate delay estimation in the design of CMOS buffers

  • Author

    Ma, Sha ; Franzon, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Sun Microsyst. Comput. Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    9/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1150
  • Lastpage
    1153
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this paper is to present a computer aided method to design CMOS multistage variable-taper buffers with optimum energy efficiencies while satisfying speed requirements. The resulting designs typically save at least 20-30% energy per computation over conventionally designed circuits with the same speed. We also present a technique for obtaining accurate empirical delay equations for buffers
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; array signal processing; buffer circuits; circuit CAD; power consumption; power control; CMOS buffer design; CMOS multistage variable-taper buffers; accurate delay estimation; accurate empirical delay equations; computer aided method; energy control; optimum energy efficiencies; speed requirements; Batteries; Circuits; Delay estimation; Design methodology; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Equations; Inverters; Parasitic capacitance; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4.309914
  • Filename
    309914