Synthesis of high performance low power dynamic CMOS circuits

Author(s):  
D. Samanta ◽  
N. Sinha ◽  
A. Pal
VLSI Design ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shikha Panwar ◽  
Mayuresh Piske ◽  
Aatreya Vivek Madgula

This paper presents several high performance and low power techniques for CMOS circuits. In these design methodologies, drain gating technique and its variations are modified by adding an additional NMOS sleep transistor at the output node which helps in faster discharge and thereby providing higher speed. In order to achieve high performance, the proposed design techniques trade power for performance in the delay critical sections of the circuit. Intensive simulations are performed using Cadence Virtuoso in a 45 nm standard CMOS technology at room temperature with supply voltage of 1.2 V. Comparative analysis of the present circuits with standard CMOS circuits shows smaller propagation delay and lesser power consumption.


Author(s):  
Ajeesh Kumar ◽  
N. Saraswathi

This paper introduces a Low Power Dual DynamicNode FlipFlop(DDFF) using Sleep Transistor with NMOS. Theproposed design retains the logic level till the end of evaluation and pre-charge mode. The low power DDFF architecturethat combines the advantages of dynamic and static CMOSstructures. The Sleep Transistors approach are used for leakagepower reduction. It reduces leakage current in ideal mode.The performance of the proposed flip flop was compared withthe conventional dual dynamic node flip flop (DDFF) in 90nmCMOS technology with 1.2v supply voltage at room temperatures.Also, conventional DDFF and DDFF using Sleep Transistor withNMOS are compared with other complicated designs and realizesby a 4-bit Johnson up and down counter. The performanceimprovements indicates that the proposed designs are suited formodern high-performance CMOS circuits where leakage powerand power delay product overhead are of major concern


2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Sakthivel ◽  
M. Vanitha ◽  
Harish M Kittur

Author(s):  
A. Ferrerón Labari ◽  
D. Suárez Gracia ◽  
V. Viñals Yúfera

In the last years, embedded systems have evolved so that they offer capabilities we could only find before in high performance systems. Portable devices already have multiprocessors on-chip (such as PowerPC 476FP or ARM Cortex A9 MP), usually multi-threaded, and a powerful multi-level cache memory hierarchy on-chip. As most of these systems are battery-powered, the power consumption becomes a critical issue. Achieving high performance and low power consumption is a high complexity challenge where some proposals have been already made. Suarez et al. proposed a new cache hierarchy on-chip, the LP-NUCA (Low Power NUCA), which is able to reduce the access latency taking advantage of NUCA (Non-Uniform Cache Architectures) properties. The key points are decoupling the functionality, and utilizing three specialized networks on-chip. This structure has been proved to be efficient for data hierarchies, achieving a good performance and reducing the energy consumption. On the other hand, instruction caches have different requirements and characteristics than data caches, contradicting the low-power embedded systems requirements, especially in SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) environments. We want to study the benefits of utilizing small tiled caches for the instruction hierarchy, so we propose a new design, ID-LP-NUCAs. Thus, we need to re-evaluate completely our previous design in terms of structure design, interconnection networks (including topologies, flow control and routing), content management (with special interest in hardware/software content allocation policies), and structure sharing. In CMP environments (chip multiprocessors) with parallel workloads, coherence plays an important role, and must be taken into consideration.


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