Title :
Implementation of power-delay product reduction techniques for ultra-low-power sub-threshold SCL circuits
Author :
Rai, Sachin ; Vyas, Sumit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Motilal Nehru Nat. Inst. of Technol., Allahabad, India
Abstract :
In this paper, we have primarily focused on the implementation of techniques to reduce power-delay product of sub-threshold source coupled logic (STSCL) circuits. Here the comparisons have been drawn to derive the performance of STSCL, STSCL-SFB (sub-threshold source coupled logic circuits with source follower buffer at output stage) and STSCL-PUSHPULL (sub-threshold source coupled logic circuits with push-pull amplifier at output stage) circuits in terms of PDP. The power dissipation has been kept same and the delay has been compared for all the circuits. Further, the analytical results measured in 180-nm CMOS technology showed an improvement of delay by a factor of 3 times. All the circuits have been designed in Cadence VIRTUOSO environment for simulation purpose.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; differential amplifiers; logic circuits; low-power electronics; CMOS technology; Cadence VIRTUOSO environment; STSCL circuit; STSCL-PUSHPULL; STSCL-SFB; power dissipation; power-delay product reduction; push-pull amplifier; subthreshold source coupled logic circuit; ultra-low-power subthreshold SCL circuit; Source-coupled logic (SCL); sub-threshold SCL (STSCL); ultralow-power circuits; weak inversion SCL (WiSCL);
Conference_Titel :
Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES), 2012 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Allahabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1047-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICPCES.2012.6508108