Title :
Low clock-swing conditional-precharge flip-flop for more than 30% power reduction
Author :
Zhang, Yan ; Yang, Huazhong ; Wang, Hui
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fDate :
4/27/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A low clock-swing flip-flop based on a conditional precharge scheme is proposed to save both clock system power and supply power. Unlike previous reduced clock-swing flip-flops, the new flip-flop will not precharge and discharge when the input data do not change. Compared with previous low clock-swing flip-flops, the new flip-flop leads to savings of at least 30% of the total power
Keywords :
clocks; flip-flops; low-power electronics; sequential circuits; clock system power; conditional-precharge flip-flop; low clock-swing flip-flop; power reduction; supply power;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000491