• DocumentCode
    3436869
  • Title

    Low power CMOS clock buffer

  • Author

    Khoo, Kei-Yong ; Willson, Alan N., Jr.

  • Author_Institution
    Integrated Circuits & Syst. Lab., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    30 May-2 Jun 1994
  • Firstpage
    355
  • Abstract
    Modern high speed CMOS processors using on-chip phase-locked-loops often require a clock buffer with stringent specifications on the signal´s rise time and fall time rather than on the buffer´s delay time. For these applications, we propose a low power CMOS clock buffer that momentarily tri-states its output to minimize its power dissipation and its area requirement below those that are achievable by the traditional tapered CMOS buffers
  • Keywords
    CMOS digital integrated circuits; buffer circuits; timing circuits; area requirement; high speed CMOS processors; low power CMOS clock buffer; onchip PLLs; output tristates; phase-locked-loops; power dissipation; signal fall time; signal rise time; CMOS integrated circuits; Clocks; Delay; High speed integrated circuits; Inverters; Latches; Minimization; Phase locked loops; Power dissipation; Power system reliability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1915-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409270
  • Filename
    409270