Multi-node driving circuits for multi-branch transmission wires

Author

Fengfeng, Wu ; Song, Jia ; Yuan, Wang ; Ganggang, Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

398

Abstract

In this paper, we propose multi-node driving circuits for multi-branch transmission wires. Power dissipation could be decreased remarkably by dividing the full signal swing into several low swings through charge redistribution. HSPICE simulations show that while driving three branches with load capacitance of 1 pF each, the proposed scheme can save the power by more than 66% compared with the circuit from reference, under a voltage supply of 1.2 V in 0.13 Â¿m technology.

Keywords

driver circuits; integrated circuit interconnections; reference circuits; HSPICE simulation; charge redistribution; interconnect wires; multibranch transmission wires; multinode driving circuits; power dissipation; reference circuits; signal swing; size 0.13 mum; voltage 1.2 V; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Delay effects; Driver circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; MOS devices; Microelectronics; Power dissipation; Threshold voltage; Wires; Multi-node; dynamic current dissipation; low power; low swing; multi-branch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2009. EDSSC 2009. IEEE International Conference of

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4297-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4298-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2009.5394232

Filename

5394232