Energy-efficient skewed static logic with dual Vt: Design and synthesis

Chulwoo Kim, Ki Wook Kim, Sung Mo Kang

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we describe skewed static logic (S2 L) with topology-dependent dual Vt which exhibits an energy-efficient operation. S2 L consumes less dynamic and static power compared to monotonic static (MS) CMOS. Speed degradation of S2 L, if any, can be offset by an accelerator circuit. We have designed NAND-NOR gate chains using 0.18-μm CMOS technology and verified that S2 L reduces energy-delay product over MS CMOS by 27%-50%. We have also designed 32-b carry-lookahead adders and verified that S2 L with dual Vt reduces delay by 43% and energy-delay product by 31% for 1-V power supply over conventional CMOS circuit. Synthesis algorithm for S2 L is developed and the experimental results show S2 L consumes 23% less power than MS CMOS with minor increase in delay.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)64-70
    Number of pages7
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
    Volume11
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003 Feb

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received January 3, 2001; revised January 16, 2002. This work was supported in part by Semiconductor Research Corporation under SRC Contract 98-HJ-641.

    Keywords

    • Accelerator
    • Adder
    • Dual Vt
    • Low power
    • Skewed logic
    • Synthesis algorithm

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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