A low power, process invariant keeper design for high speed dynamic logic circuits

David, Rakesh Gnana J and Bhat, Navakanta (2008) A low power, process invariant keeper design for high speed dynamic logic circuits. In: ISCAS, 18-21 May 2008 , Seattle, WA .

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Abstract

A low power keeper circuit using the concept of rate sensing has been proposed. The proposed technique reduces the amount of short circuit power dissipation in the domino gate by 70% compared to the conventional keeper technique. Also the total power-delay product is 26% lower compared to the previously reported techniques. The process tracking capability of the design enables the domino gate to achieve uniform delay across different process corners. This reduces the amount of short circuit power dissipation that occurs in the cascaded domino gates by 90%. The use of the proposed technique in the read path of a register file reduces the energy requirement by 26% as compared to the other keeper techniques. The proposed technique has been prototyped in 130nm CMOS technology.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2011 07:09
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2011 07:09
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/40612

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