• DocumentCode
    2955130
  • Title

    Reducing the switching activity of modified SAFF flip-flop for low power applications

  • Author

    Darwish, Tarek ; Bayoumi, Magdy

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Adv. Comput. Studies, Louisiana Univ., Lafayette, LA, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    11-13 Dec. 2002
  • Firstpage
    96
  • Lastpage
    99
  • Abstract
    The design and analysis of flip-flops is a critical issue in the design of high-performance and low power systems. In this paper, we propose a low power and a high-speed flip-flop (LP-SAFF) based on the Sense Amplifier Flip-Flop (SAFF). The saving in power consumption was achieved by reducing the switching activity at major internal nodes of the original SAFF. Our simulations show that this new flip-flop achieves major reduction in power consumption (25%-80%) and increases its performance by 5%-16%.
  • Keywords
    amplifiers; circuit simulation; flip-flops; logic design; low-power electronics; power consumption; switching circuits; LP-SAFF; SAFF; low power SAFF; low power application; power consumption; sense amplifier flip-flop; switching activity; Application software; Clocks; Energy consumption; Flip-flops; Frequency; Power system analysis computing; Power system simulation; Timing; Very large scale integration; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics, The 14th International Conference on 2002 - ICM
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7573-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICM-02.2002.1161505
  • Filename
    1161505