Complementary adiabatic and fully adiabatic MOS logic families for gigascale integration

Author

De, V.K. ; Meindl, J.D.

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

10-10 Feb. 1996

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

299

Abstract

A fundamental opportunity for adiabatic-reversible computation is prescribed by the second law of thermodynamics through the universal relationship between entropy and heat generation in a closed system. The complementary adiabatic MOS (CAMOS) and fully adiabatic MOS (ADMOS) logic families provide practical circuit implementations of quasi-adiabatic and quasi-adiabatic-reversible computing, respectively, and offer promising alternatives to CMOS logic for low-power GSI systems.

Keywords

MOS logic circuits; VLSI; circuit analysis computing; entropy; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; thermodynamics; ADMOS; CAMOS; MOS logic families; adiabatic-reversible computation; complementary adiabatic MOS; entropy; fully adiabatic MOS; gigascale integration; heat generation; low-power GSI systems; quasi-adiabatic computing; quasi-adiabatic-reversible computing; second law of thermodynamics; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Clocks; Frequency; Logic design; Power dissipation; Propagation delay; Semiconductor diodes; Stress; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1996. Digest of Technical Papers. 42nd ISSCC., 1996 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3136-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.1996.488626

Filename

488626