Energy-efficient noise-tolerant dynamic styles for scaled-down CMOS and MTCMOS technologies

Author

Anis, Mohab H. ; Allam, Mohamed W. ; Elmasry, Mohamed I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

10

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

78

Abstract

A new high-speed domino circuit, called HS-Domino has been developed. HS-Domino resolves the tradeoff between performance and reliability in conventional CD-domino logic while dissipating low dynamic power with minimal area overhead. HS-Domino, therefore, extends domino´s operation in the deep submicron regime. A multithreshold implementation of HS-Domino is also devised to achieve substantially low leakage values during standby, while maintaining high performance and low power during the active mode. Furthermore, the generic multithreshold scheme is applied to differential cascode voltage switch (DDCVS) logic.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; VLSI; high-speed integrated circuits; integrated circuit noise; integrated circuit reliability; leakage currents; low-power electronics; MTCMOS; active mode; area overhead; deep submicron regime; differential cascode voltage switch logic; dynamic power; energy-efficient noise-tolerant dynamic styles; generic multithreshold scheme; high-speed domino circuit; leakage values; low power; multithreshold implementation; reliability; scaled-down CMOS; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Circuit noise; Clocks; Dynamic voltage scaling; Energy efficiency; Maintenance; Power dissipation; Subthreshold current; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-8210

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/92.994977

Filename

994977