MTCMOS with outer feedback (MTOF) flip-flops

Author

Stan, Mircea R. ; Barcella, Marco

Author_Institution

Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2003

Abstract

Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) circuits combine high performance during active mode with low leakage during sleep, but have a fundamental difficulty when trying to keep the state during sleep mode. We propose several novel master-slave MTCMOS flip-flops which use an outer feedback connection in order to maintain state. These MTCMOS with Outer Feedback (MTOF) flip-flops are fast since they use only low threshold transistors on the forward (critical) path and minimum extra load. The area overhead is low since the outer feedback is simple and transistors not on the critical path can have high threshold and be reused for maintaining the state during sleep. A 100nm predictive technology with power supply ranging from 0.8V to 1.2V is used for verifying the circuits performance through simulation.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; circuit feedback; flip-flops; low-power electronics; 0.8 to 1.2 V; 100 nm; MTOF flip-flop; active mode; leakage current; low-voltage operation; master-slave MTCMOS flip-flop; multi-threshold CMOS circuit; outer feedback; sleep mode; CMOS process; Flip-flops; Master-slave; Power dissipation; Power supplies; Sequential circuits; State feedback; Subthreshold current; Switches; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2003. ISCAS '03. Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7761-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2003.1206305

Filename

1206305