• DocumentCode
    1903831
  • Title

    A leakage-tolerant dynamic register file using leakage bypass with stack forcing (LBSF) and source follower NMOS (SFN) techniques

  • Author

    Tang, S. ; Hsu, S. ; Ye, Y. ; Tschanz, J. ; Somasekhar, D. ; Narendra, S. ; Shih-Lien Lu ; Krishnamurthy, R. ; De, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Microprocessor Res., Intel Labs., Hillsboro, OR, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    13-15 June 2002
  • Firstpage
    320
  • Lastpage
    321
  • Abstract
    Clock frequency of a multi-ported, 256/spl times/32b dynamic register file in a 100nm technology is improved by 50%, compared to the best dual-V/sub T/ (DVT) design, using LBSF and SFN leakage-tolerant circuit techniques for LBL and GBL. Total transistor width of the full LBSF design is the smallest.
  • Keywords
    MOS digital integrated circuits; clocks; integrated circuit design; leakage currents; microprocessor chips; 100 nm; 32 bit; 8192 bit; GBL; LBL; LBSF; SFN; clock frequency; leakage bypass; leakage-tolerant dynamic register file; microprocessor cores; source follower NMOS; stack forcing; transistor width; Circuit noise; Delay; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Noise robustness; Registers; Tiles; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2002. Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7310-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSIC.2002.1015115
  • Filename
    1015115