新型半静态低功耗D触发器设计

本文从简化触发器内部锁存器结构以降低功耗的要求出发，提出了一种新型的半静态D触发器设计。PSPICE模拟表明，新设计逻辑功能正确。与以往一些设计相比，新设计在功耗和速度上获得显著改进。     

Domino logic with variable threshold voltage keeper

A variable threshold voltage keeper circuit technique is proposed for simultaneous power reduction and speed enhancement of domino logic circuits. The threshold voltage of a keeper transistor is dynamically modified during circuit operation to reduce contention current without sacrificing noise immunity. The variable threshold voltage keeper circuit technique enhances circuit evaluation speed by up to 60% while reducing power dissipation by 35% as compared to a standard domino (SD) logic circuit. The keeper size can be increased with the proposed technique while preserving the same delay or power characteristics as compared to a SD circuit. The proposed domino logic circuit technique offers 14% higher noise immunity as compared to a SD circuit with the same evaluation delay characteristics. Forward body biasing the keeper transistor is also proposed for improved noise immunity as compared to a SD circuit with the same keeper size. It is shown that by applying forward and reverse body biased keeper circuit techniques, the noise immunity and evaluation speed of domino logic circuits are simultaneously enhanced.     

一种低功耗高鲁棒性老化预测传感器

为了降低电路老化对数字集成电路性能的影响,提出了一种通过对比输入信号与其反向延迟信号对电路老化进行预测的传感器结构.提出的传感器结构预测部分可对组合逻辑电路进行数据失效前的老化预测,当检测到电路已发生老化致数据失效时,容错部分可对错误信号进行矫正.该结构特殊的设计减小了面积开销和功耗.采用HSPICE软件对传感器功能进行模拟仿真,实验结果验证了传感器可在不同环境下正确地预测电路的老化情况,并对已发生错误的信号进行矫正,与其他功能相同的传感器相比,该传感器的面积及功耗分别降低了30.91％和41.3％.     

LCD控制器中异步电路的设计

异步电路的设计能够解决功耗、系统速度、时钟偏移等问题,成为当前VLSI研究的热点.文章提出了4级灰度LCD控制器异步电路的设计方案,通过异步控制以消除无效操作从而降低功耗,经验证平均功耗仅为同步电路的23.7%：异步电路还实现了部分显示和滚屏等功能,加快了系统响应速度.     

Turbo译码器的低功耗设计

为了降低Turbo码译码器的功耗,作者介绍了一种利用对迭代次数的优化和关闭闲置状态下的译码器来降低功耗的方案;由于在SISO中,存放分支路径值以及前向路径状态值的储存体在功率的消耗上约占整个Turbo译码器功耗的70%,作者提出自己的方案,通过增加逻辑电路来减小储存体的大小从而降低译码器的功耗.实验结果表明修改后的方案可以降低比传统方案约12%的功耗.可见,在低功耗设计中抓住功率的消耗主体尤为关键.     

Application of source biasing technique for energy efficient DECODER circuit design: memory array application

Researchers have proposed many circuit techniques to reduce leakage power dissipation in memory cells.If we want to reduce the overall power in the memory system,we have to work on the input circuitry of memory architecture i.e.row and column decoder.In this research work,low leakage power with a high speed row and column decoder for memory array application is designed and four new techniques are proposed.In this work,the comparison of cluster DECODER,body bias DECODER,source bias DECODER,and source coupling DECODER are designed and analyzed for memory array application.Simulation is performed for the comparative analysis of different DECODER design parameters at 180 nm GPDK technology file using the CADENCE tool.Simulation results show that the proposed source bias DECODER circuit technique decreases the leakage current by 99.92％ and static energy by 99.92％ at a supply voltage of 1.2 V.The proposed circuit also improves dynamic power dissipation by 5.69％,dynamic PDP/EDP 65.03％ and delay 57.25％ at 1.2 V supply voltage.     

Dual-threshold voltage assignment with transistor sizing for lowpower CMOS circuits

We demonstrate a novel algorithm for assigning the threshold voltage to the gates in a digital random logic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuit for a dual-threshold voltage process. The tradeoff between static and dynamic power consumption has been explored. When used along with device sizing and supply voltage reduction techniques for low power, the proposed algorithm can reduce the total power dissipation of a circuit by as much as 50%     

A 0.79-mm2 29-mW Real-Time Face Detection Core

A 0.79-mm² 29-mW real-time face detection core is fabricated in a 0.13-mum CMOS technology. It consists of 75-kgate logic, 58-kbit SRAM, and an ARM AMBA bus interface. Comprehensive optimization in both algorithm and hardware design improves performance and reduces area and power dissipation. Two kinds of templates with facial features are proposed to achieve high speed and yet accurate face detection. A Steady State Genetic Algorithm is employed for high-speed hardware implementation of template matching. To reduce area and power dissipation, frame memory is optimized at minimum and the detection engine is shared for two kinds of template matching. The core can detect eight faces in each frame of moving pictures at 30 frames/second. Face detection accuracy is 92%     

FELERION: a new approach for leakage power reduction

The circuit proposed in this paper simultaneously reduces the sub threshold leakage power and saves the state of art aspect of the logic circuits. Sleep transistors and PMOS-only logic are used to further reduce the leakage power. Sleep transistors are used as the keepers to reduce the sub threshold leakage current providing the low resistance path to the output. PMOS-only logic is used between the pull up and pull down devices to mitigate the leakage power further. Our proposed fast efficient leakage reduction circuit not only reduces the leakage current but also reduces the power dissipation. Power and delay are analyzed at the 32 nm BSIM4 model for a chain of four inverters, NAND, NOR and ISCAS-85 c17 benchmark circuits using DSCH3 and the Microwind tool. The simulation results reveal that our proposed approach mitigates leakage power by 90%–94% as compared to the conventional approach.     

高性能微处理器中一种改进的高扇入多米诺电路设计与实现

设计实现了一种改进的高扇入多米诺电路结构.该电路的nMOS下拉网络分为多个块,有效降低了动态节点的电容,同时每一块只需要一个小尺寸的保持管.由于省去了标准多米诺逻辑中的尾管,有效地提升了该电路的性能.在0.13μm工艺下对该结构实现的一个64位或门进行模拟,延迟为63.9ps,功耗为32.4μw,面积为115μm2.与组合多米诺逻辑相比,延迟和功耗分别降低了55%和38%.     

用于MB-OFDM UWB系统的FFT/IFFT处理器的设计与实现

设计了一种应用于超宽带(UWB)无线通信系统中的FFT/IFFT处理器。该处理器采用基24算法进行FFT运算,利用8路并入并出的流水线结构实现该算法,提高了处理器的数据吞吐率,降低了芯片功耗。提出了一种新颖的数据处理方式,在保证信噪比的情况下节约了逻辑资源。在乘法器的设计环节,针对UWB系统的具体特点,在结构上对乘法器进行了改进和优化,提高了乘法器的性能。最后,设计的FFT/IFFT处理器采用TSMC 0.18μm CMOS标准工艺库综合,芯片的内核面积为0.762mm2(不含测试电路)。在1.8V,25℃条件下,最大工作时钟317.199MHz,在UWB典型的工作频率下,内核功耗为33.5304mW。     

Modeling and evaluation of positive-feedback source-coupled logic

Positive feedback source-coupled logic (PFSCL) is proposed as an alternative logic style to traditional SCL logic, which is often used in high-resolution mixed-signal integrated circuits. Positive feedback allows for significantly reducing the NMOS transistors' aspect ratio compared to traditional single-ended SCL gates for equal values of design constraints. The resulting reduction in NMOS parasitic capacitances permits a significant speed up, which can be traded off to achieve a power saving for a given speed constraint, as well as a silicon area reduction. PFSCL gates are analytically modeled in terms of their static parameters and delay, which are expressed as a function of bias current, transistors' aspect ratios and process parameters. Spectre simulations by using a 0.35-/spl mu/m CMOS process confirm that the proposed models are sufficiently accurate in practical cases. PFSCL gates are also compared with traditional SCL circuits by resorting to two different metrics: the gate delay in a Ring Oscillator and that of an inverter with a fan-out of 4. The comparison confirms that PFSCL logic is faster than SCL logic in most cases, and design conditions leading to a speed advantage are identified. As a result, PFSCL gates are an interesting alternative to traditional SCL circuits in mixed-signal applications requiring a high speed or a good balance with power dissipation.     

基于门控时钟技术的低功耗三值D型触发器设计

本文在三值D型触发器的基础上提出了一种低功耗三值门控时钟D型触发器的设计.该设计通过抑制触发器的冗余触发来降低功耗,PSPICE模拟验证了该触发器具有正确的逻辑功能.与三值D触发器相比,该触发器在输入信号开关活动性较低的情况下具有更低的功耗.同时该电路结构可以推广到基值更高的低功耗多值触发器的设计中.     

Output gating performance overhead elimination for scan test

Switching activity is much higher in test mode as compared to normal mode of operation which causes higher power dissipation, and this leads to several reliability issues. Output gating is proposed as a very effective low-power test technique, which is used to eliminate redundant switching activity in the combinational logic of circuit under test (CUT) during the shifting of test vectors in a scan chain. This method reduces the average power significantly, but it introduces performance overhead in normal mode of operation. In this work, a new output gating technique is proposed which eliminates redundant switching activity in combinational logic of CUT during shifting of test vectors without any negative impact on performance as compared to earlier proposed output gating techniques. The proposed design also improves the performance of the scan flop in functional mode with negligible area overhead incurred due to extra transistors. Experimental results show that our design has a more robust performance over wide range of capacitive load as compared to earlier designs.     

A 1-V, 10-MHz, 3.5-mW, 1-Mb MTCMOS SRAM: with charge-recyclinginput/output buffers

This paper presents a high-speed and low-power SRAM for portable equipment, which is operated by a single battery cell of around 1 V. Its memory cells are made up of high-threshold-voltage (high-V_th) MOSFETs in order to suppress the power dissipation due to large subthreshold leakage currents. For designing peripheral circuitry, we use SRAM's special feature that input signals of each logic gate during the standby time can be predicted. Low-V_th MOSFETs are assigned for the critical paths of memory-cell access. The leakage current in each logic gate is reduced by high-V_th MOSFETs, which are cut off during standby. The high-V_th, MOSFET in one logic gate can be shared with another logic gate in order to enlarge effective channel width. To shorten the readout time, a step-down boosted-wordline scheme suitable for current-sense readout and a new half-swing bidirectional double-rail bus are used. The data-writing time is halved by means of a pulse-reset wordline architecture. To reduce the power dissipation, a 32-divided memory array structure is employed with a new redundant address-decoding scheme. Also, data transition detectors and a charge-recycling technique are employed for reducing the power dissipation of data-I/O buffers. A 64-K-words×16-bits SRAM test chip, which was fabricated with a 0.5-μm multithreshold voltage CMOS (MTCMOS) process, has demonstrated a 75-ns address access time at a 1-V power supply. The power dissipation during standby is 1.2 μW, and that at a 10-MHz read operation with the modified checkerboard test pattern is 3.9 mW for 30-pF loads     

低功耗双边沿触发器的逻辑设计

本文从消除时钟信号冗余跳变而致的无效功耗的要求出发,提出双边沿触发器的设计思想与基于与非门的逻辑设计．用ＰＳＰＩＣＥ程序模拟证实了该种触发器具有正确的逻辑功能,能够正常地应用于时序电路的设计,并且由于时钟工作频率减半而导致系统功耗的明显降低．     

New Light Weight Threshold Voltage Defined Camouflaged Gates for Trustworthy Designs

The outsourcing of the IC fabrication process introduces the security vulnerabilities into the design. An attacker can exploit them to extract the functionality using image processing-based reverse engineering and can also mount the various attacks such as hardware Trojan, piracy, overbuilding, etc. Various dummy contacts and Threshold Voltage Defined (TVD) logic-based layout camouflaging techniques are presented that can deceive the attacker into incorrectly interpreting the functionality of the camouflaged gate. The existing dummy contact-based techniques require large overhead and provide poor security whereas, the TVD logic-based camouflaging techniques increase the security at the cost of large area and energy overhead. Therefore, in this paper, new light weight TVD static and dynamic logic (TVD-SL and TVD-DL) based camouflaged gates are proposed. The proposed TVD-SL/DL gates have same physical structure and provide the functionality of several standard gates by implanting different threshold voltages during manufacturing. Further, various simplified TVD-SL/DL gates are also proposed to achieve the overhead and security trade-off. To evaluate the efficacy, the proposed TVD logic gates are implemented using 32nm PTM library and simulated using the HSPICE simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed TVD-SL-based gates on an average reduce 35.49%, 59.18% and 72.05% whereas the proposed TVD-DL reduces 54.84%, 84.18% and 82.30% area, power and delay respectively over the existing. Further, on an average, the proposed TVD-DL-based camouflaged gates require 56% less power over the standard gates. Due to the low-cost and high energy efficiency, the proposed logic gates are best suited for the development of secure and portable devices for the Internet of Things applications.     

Total Power Modeling in FPGAs Under Spatial Correlation

This work describes a novel approach for total power estimation in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) while considering spatial correlation among the different signals in the design. The signal probabilities under spatial correlations are used to properly model the dynamic power dissipation and the state-dependency of the leakage power dissipation in the logic and routing resources of FPGAs. Moreover, the proposed model accounts for power due to glitches. The accuracy of the developed power estimation technique is compared with that of HSpice simulations and other FPGA power estimation techniques that assume spatial independence. It is found that the spatial independence assumption can overestimate power dissipation in FPGAs by an average of 19%.      

An asynchronous ternary logic signaling system

This paper presents a new approach to an on-chip asynchronous transmission system suitable for next generation asynchronous on-chip networks. It implements multivalued logic to reduce the number of wires and a low-voltage swing for lower dynamic power dissipation. Furthermore, the transmission system described here enjoys fully static design and has zero static power consumption. Two versions of the transmitter circuit and the receiver are described. The proposed signaling scheme is compared to a classical dual-rail signaling system with regard to speed, power consumption, and reliability. The simulation results show that the asynchronous ternary logic signaling (ATLS) system delivers over 70% higher bandwidth per wire and consumes over 50% less power than the dual-rail signaling system on 10-mm-long on-chip interconnection.     

An efficient design of CORDIC in Quantum-dot cellular automata technology

Power dissipation of future-integrated systems, consisting of a numberless of devices, is a challenge that cannot be easily solved by classical technologies. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a Field-Coupled Nanotechnology (FCN) and a potential alternative to traditional CMOS technologies. It offers various features like extremely low-power dissipation, very high operating frequency and nanoscale feature size. This study presents a novel design of CORDIC circuit based on QCA technology. The proposed circuit is based on several proposed QCA sub-modules as adder and Flip-Flop. To design and verify the proposed architecture, QCADesigner tool is employed and power consumption is estimated using QCAPro software. The proposed QCA CORDIC achieves about 69% reduction in power and area compared to previous existing designs. The outcome of this work can open up a new window of opportunity for the design of the CORDIC module and can be used in low-power signal and image processing systems.