Design of a four-valued current-mode VLSI CMOS standard cell library

Author

Abd-El-Barr, Mostafa ; Fortugno, Vincenzo ; Bolton, Ron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

fYear

1999

fDate

22-24 Nov. 1999

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

152

Abstract

In this paper, the design and test of a 4-valued current-mode CMOS standard cell library is presented. A total of five basic elements are presented. These are the switch, constant, current mirror, threshold, and summing node. Using these basic elements, a number of multiple-valued operators are designed and tested. These operators are the min, tsum, and literal. Each of the designed circuits is presented with its complete specifications and HSPICE simulation. Standard cell library layout diagrams are presented with accompanying descriptions for these logic operators.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; SPICE; VLSI; circuit CAD; circuit simulation; current-mode circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit testing; multivalued logic circuits; HSPICE simulation; constant element; current mirror element; current-mode CMOS standard cell library; designed circuit specifications; four-valued current-mode CMOS standard cell library; four-valued current-mode VLSI CMOS standard cell library design; literal operator; logic operators; min operator; multiple-valued operator design; multiple-valued operator test; multiple-valued operators; standard cell library layout diagrams; summing node element; switch element; threshold element; tsum operator; CMOS logic circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; Libraries; Logic circuits; Logic devices; Mirrors; Switches; Testing; Threshold voltage; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 1999. ICM '99. The Eleventh International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6643-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2000.884827

Filename

884827