An asymmetry power clock,4 phase power clock supplying the power to the DSCRL(dual swing charge recovery logic) adiabatic circuit is presented.It is much simpler than the 6 phase power clock,symmetry power clock,us...An asymmetry power clock,4 phase power clock supplying the power to the DSCRL(dual swing charge recovery logic) adiabatic circuit is presented.It is much simpler than the 6 phase power clock,symmetry power clock,used in the DSCRL adiabatic circuit.Although the 4 phase power clock is simpler,the DSCRL adiabatic circuit still shows good performance and high efficiency of energy transfer and recovery.This conclusion has been proved by the result of the HSPICE simulation using the 0 6μm CMOS technology.展开更多
Energy recovery threshold logic (ERTL) is proposed,which combines threshold logic with adiabatic approach.ERTL achieves low energy as well as low gate complexity.A high efficiency power clock generator is also propose...Energy recovery threshold logic (ERTL) is proposed,which combines threshold logic with adiabatic approach.ERTL achieves low energy as well as low gate complexity.A high efficiency power clock generator is also proposed,which can adjust duty cycle of MOS switch in power clock generator depending on logic complexity and operating frequency to achieve optimum energy efficiency.Closed-form results are derived,which facilitate efficiency-optimized design of the power clock generator.An ERTL PLA and a conventional PLA are designed and simulated on 0.35μm process.The energy efficiency of the proposed power clock generator can reach 77%～85% operating between 20～100MHz.Simulation results indicate that ERTL is a low energy logic.Including power loss of power clock circuits,ERTL PLA still shows 65%～77% power savings compared to conventional PLA.展开更多
First the research is conducted on the design of the two-phase sinusoidal power clock generator in this paper. Then the design of the new adiabatic logic circuit adopting the two-phase sinusoidal power clocks--Clocked...First the research is conducted on the design of the two-phase sinusoidal power clock generator in this paper. Then the design of the new adiabatic logic circuit adopting the two-phase sinusoidal power clocks--Clocked Transmission Gate Adiabatic Logic （CTGAL） circuit is presented. This circuit makes use of the clocked transmission gates to sample the input signals, then the output loads are charged and discharged in a fully adiabatic manner by using bootstrapped N-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor （NMOS） and Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor （CMOS） latch structure. Finally, with the parameters of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company （TSMC） 0.25um CMOS device, the transient energy consumption of CTGAL, Bootstrap Charge-Recovery Logic （BCRL） and Pass-transistor Adiabatic Logic （PAL） including their clock generators is simulated. The simulation result indicates that CTGAL circuit has the characteristic of remarkably low energy consumption.展开更多
Clock networks dissipate a significant fraction of the entire chip power budget. Therefore, the optimization for power consumption of clock networks has become one of the most important objectives in high performance ...Clock networks dissipate a significant fraction of the entire chip power budget. Therefore, the optimization for power consumption of clock networks has become one of the most important objectives in high performance IC designs. In contrast to most of the traditional studies that handle this problem with clock routing or buffer insertion strategy, this paper proposes a novel register clustering methodology in generating the leaf level topology of the clock tree to reduce the power consumption. Three register clustering algorithms called KMR, KSR and GSR are developed and a comprehensive study of them is discussed in this paper. Meanwhile~ a buffer allocation algorithm is proposed to satisfy the slew constraint within the clusters at a minimum cost of power consumption. We integrate our algorithms into a classical clock tree synthesis （CTS） flow to test the register clustering methodology on ISPD 2010 benchmark circuits. Experimental results show that all the three register clustering algorithms achieve more than 20% reduction in power consumption without affecting the skew and the maximum latency of the clock tree. As the most effective method among the three algorithms, GSR algorithm achieves a 31% reduction in power consumption as well as a 4% reduction in skew and a 5% reduction in maximum latency. Moreover, the total runtime of the CTS flow with our register clustering algorithms is significantly reduced by almost an order of magnitude.展开更多
We analyze the energy performance of a complete adiabatic circuit/system including the Power Clock Generator （PCG） at the 90 nm CMOS technology node. The energy performance in terms of the conversion efficiency of t...We analyze the energy performance of a complete adiabatic circuit/system including the Power Clock Generator （PCG） at the 90 nm CMOS technology node. The energy performance in terms of the conversion efficiency of the PCG is extensively carried out under the variations of supply voltage, process comer and the driver transistor＇s width. We propose an energy-efficient singe cycle control circuit based on the two-stage comparator for the synchronous charge recovery sinusoidal power clock generator （PCG）. The proposed PCG is used to drive the 4-bit adiabatic Ripple Carry Adder （RCA） and their simulation results are compared with the adiabatic RCA driven by the reported PCG. We have also simulated the logically equivalent static CMOS RCA circuit to compare the energy saving of adiabatic and non-adiabatic logic circuits. In the clock frequency range from 25 MHz to 1GHz, the proposed PCG gives a maximum conversion efficiency of 56.48%. This research work shows how the design of an efficient PCG increases the energy saving of adiabatic logic.展开更多
Based on analyzing significance of controlling clock in design of low power sequential circuits, this paper proposes a technique that the gating signal is derived from the master latch in a flip-flop to make the deriv...Based on analyzing significance of controlling clock in design of low power sequential circuits, this paper proposes a technique that the gating signal is derived from the master latch in a flip-flop to make the derived clock having no glitch and no skew. The design of a decimal counter with half-frequency division shows that by using the synchronous derived clock the counter has lower power dissipation as well as simpler combinational logic. Computer simulation shows 20% power saving.展开更多
A new low power quasi adiabatic logic,complementary pass transistor adiabatic logic (CPAL),is presented.The CPAL circuit is driven by a new three phase power clock,and its non adiabatic loss on output loads can b...A new low power quasi adiabatic logic,complementary pass transistor adiabatic logic (CPAL),is presented.The CPAL circuit is driven by a new three phase power clock,and its non adiabatic loss on output loads can be effectively reduced by using complementary pass transistor logic and transmission gates.Furthermore,the minimization of the energy consumption can be obtained by choosing the optimal size of bootstrapped nMOS transistors,thus it has more efficient energy transfer and recovery.A three phase power supply generator with a small control logic circuit and a single inductor is proposed.An 8 bit adder based on CPAL is designed and verified.With MOSIS 0 25μm CMOS technology,the CPAL adder consumes only 35% of the dissipated energy of a 2N 2N2P adder and is about 50% of the dissipated energy of a PFAL adder for clock rates ranging from 50 to 200MHz.展开更多
A two stage scan architecture is proposed to do low power and low test application cost scan testing. The first stage includes multiple scan chains, where each scan chain is driven by a primary input. Each scan flip-f...A two stage scan architecture is proposed to do low power and low test application cost scan testing. The first stage includes multiple scan chains, where each scan chain is driven by a primary input. Each scan flip-flop in the multiple scan chains drives a group of scan flip-flops. The scan flip-flop in the multiple scan chain and the scan flip-flop driven by it are assigned the same values for all test vectors. Scan flip-flops in the multiple scan chains and those in the second stage use separate clock signals, but the design for testability technqiue needs only one clock. The proposed scan architecture localizes test power consumption to the multiple scan chains during test application. Test signals assigned to scan flip-fiops in the multiple scan chains are applied to the scan flip-flops in the second stage after the test vector has been applied to the multiple scan chains. This technique can make test power consumption very small.展开更多
For the reliability and power consumption issues of Ethernet data transmission based on the field programmable gate array （FPGA）, a low-power consumption design method is proposed, which is suitable for FPGA impleme...For the reliability and power consumption issues of Ethernet data transmission based on the field programmable gate array （FPGA）, a low-power consumption design method is proposed, which is suitable for FPGA implementation. To reduce the dynamic power consumption of integrated circuit （IC） design, the proposed method adopts the dynamic control of the clock frequency. For most of the time, when the port is in the idle state or lower-rate state, users can reduce or even turn off the reading clock frequency and reduce the clock flip frequency in order to reduce the dynamic power consumption. When the receiving rate is high, the reading clock frequency will be improved timely to ensure that no data will lost. Simulated and verified by Modelsim, the proposed method can dynamically control the clock frequency, including the dynamic switching of high-speed and low-speed clock flip rates, or stop of the clock flip.展开更多
The objective of the work is to design a new clock gated based flip flop for pipelining architecture. In computing and consumer products, the major dynamic power is consumed in the system’s clock signal, typically ab...The objective of the work is to design a new clock gated based flip flop for pipelining architecture. In computing and consumer products, the major dynamic power is consumed in the system’s clock signal, typically about 30% to 70% of the total dynamic (switching) power consumption. Several techniques to reduce the dynamic power have been developed, of which clock gating is predominant. In this work, a new methodology is applied for gating the Flip flop by which the power will be reduced. The clock gating is employed to the pipelining stage flip flop which is active only during valid data are arrived. The methodology used in project named Selective Look-Ahead Clock Gating computes the clock enabling signals of each FF one cycle ahead of time, based on the present cycle data of those FFs on which it depends. Similarly to data-driven gating, it is capable of stopping the majority of redundant clock pulses. In this work, the circuit implementation of the various blocks of data driven clock gating is done and the results are observed. The proposed work is used for pipelining stage in microprocessor and DSP architectures. The proposed method is simulated using the quartus for cyclone 3 kit.展开更多
文摘An asymmetry power clock,4 phase power clock supplying the power to the DSCRL(dual swing charge recovery logic) adiabatic circuit is presented.It is much simpler than the 6 phase power clock,symmetry power clock,used in the DSCRL adiabatic circuit.Although the 4 phase power clock is simpler,the DSCRL adiabatic circuit still shows good performance and high efficiency of energy transfer and recovery.This conclusion has been proved by the result of the HSPICE simulation using the 0 6μm CMOS technology.
文摘Energy recovery threshold logic (ERTL) is proposed,which combines threshold logic with adiabatic approach.ERTL achieves low energy as well as low gate complexity.A high efficiency power clock generator is also proposed,which can adjust duty cycle of MOS switch in power clock generator depending on logic complexity and operating frequency to achieve optimum energy efficiency.Closed-form results are derived,which facilitate efficiency-optimized design of the power clock generator.An ERTL PLA and a conventional PLA are designed and simulated on 0.35μm process.The energy efficiency of the proposed power clock generator can reach 77%～85% operating between 20～100MHz.Simulation results indicate that ERTL is a low energy logic.Including power loss of power clock circuits,ERTL PLA still shows 65%～77% power savings compared to conventional PLA.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60273093)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejinag Province(No. Y104135) the Student Sci-entific Research Foundation of Ningbo university (No.C38).
文摘First the research is conducted on the design of the two-phase sinusoidal power clock generator in this paper. Then the design of the new adiabatic logic circuit adopting the two-phase sinusoidal power clocks--Clocked Transmission Gate Adiabatic Logic （CTGAL） circuit is presented. This circuit makes use of the clocked transmission gates to sample the input signals, then the output loads are charged and discharged in a fully adiabatic manner by using bootstrapped N-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor （NMOS） and Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor （CMOS） latch structure. Finally, with the parameters of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company （TSMC） 0.25um CMOS device, the transient energy consumption of CTGAL, Bootstrap Charge-Recovery Logic （BCRL） and Pass-transistor Adiabatic Logic （PAL） including their clock generators is simulated. The simulation result indicates that CTGAL circuit has the characteristic of remarkably low energy consumption.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61274031.
文摘Clock networks dissipate a significant fraction of the entire chip power budget. Therefore, the optimization for power consumption of clock networks has become one of the most important objectives in high performance IC designs. In contrast to most of the traditional studies that handle this problem with clock routing or buffer insertion strategy, this paper proposes a novel register clustering methodology in generating the leaf level topology of the clock tree to reduce the power consumption. Three register clustering algorithms called KMR, KSR and GSR are developed and a comprehensive study of them is discussed in this paper. Meanwhile~ a buffer allocation algorithm is proposed to satisfy the slew constraint within the clusters at a minimum cost of power consumption. We integrate our algorithms into a classical clock tree synthesis （CTS） flow to test the register clustering methodology on ISPD 2010 benchmark circuits. Experimental results show that all the three register clustering algorithms achieve more than 20% reduction in power consumption without affecting the skew and the maximum latency of the clock tree. As the most effective method among the three algorithms, GSR algorithm achieves a 31% reduction in power consumption as well as a 4% reduction in skew and a 5% reduction in maximum latency. Moreover, the total runtime of the CTS flow with our register clustering algorithms is significantly reduced by almost an order of magnitude.
基金Project supported by the Special Man-Power Development Programme in VLSI & Related Software,Phase-Ⅱ(SMDP-Ⅱ),Ministry of Information Technology,Government of Indiathe JUET,Guna(M.P.)
文摘We analyze the energy performance of a complete adiabatic circuit/system including the Power Clock Generator （PCG） at the 90 nm CMOS technology node. The energy performance in terms of the conversion efficiency of the PCG is extensively carried out under the variations of supply voltage, process comer and the driver transistor＇s width. We propose an energy-efficient singe cycle control circuit based on the two-stage comparator for the synchronous charge recovery sinusoidal power clock generator （PCG）. The proposed PCG is used to drive the 4-bit adiabatic Ripple Carry Adder （RCA） and their simulation results are compared with the adiabatic RCA driven by the reported PCG. We have also simulated the logically equivalent static CMOS RCA circuit to compare the energy saving of adiabatic and non-adiabatic logic circuits. In the clock frequency range from 25 MHz to 1GHz, the proposed PCG gives a maximum conversion efficiency of 56.48%. This research work shows how the design of an efficient PCG increases the energy saving of adiabatic logic.
基金Supported by the NSF of China (# 69773034) and DARPA under contract # F33615-95-C-1627
文摘Based on analyzing significance of controlling clock in design of low power sequential circuits, this paper proposes a technique that the gating signal is derived from the master latch in a flip-flop to make the derived clock having no glitch and no skew. The design of a decimal counter with half-frequency division shows that by using the synchronous derived clock the counter has lower power dissipation as well as simpler combinational logic. Computer simulation shows 20% power saving.
文摘A new low power quasi adiabatic logic,complementary pass transistor adiabatic logic (CPAL),is presented.The CPAL circuit is driven by a new three phase power clock,and its non adiabatic loss on output loads can be effectively reduced by using complementary pass transistor logic and transmission gates.Furthermore,the minimization of the energy consumption can be obtained by choosing the optimal size of bootstrapped nMOS transistors,thus it has more efficient energy transfer and recovery.A three phase power supply generator with a small control logic circuit and a single inductor is proposed.An 8 bit adder based on CPAL is designed and verified.With MOSIS 0 25μm CMOS technology,the CPAL adder consumes only 35% of the dissipated energy of a 2N 2N2P adder and is about 50% of the dissipated energy of a PFAL adder for clock rates ranging from 50 to 200MHz.
基金This workis supported in part by JSPS under grant L03540and the National Science Foundation of China under grant60373009
文摘A two stage scan architecture is proposed to do low power and low test application cost scan testing. The first stage includes multiple scan chains, where each scan chain is driven by a primary input. Each scan flip-flop in the multiple scan chains drives a group of scan flip-flops. The scan flip-flop in the multiple scan chain and the scan flip-flop driven by it are assigned the same values for all test vectors. Scan flip-flops in the multiple scan chains and those in the second stage use separate clock signals, but the design for testability technqiue needs only one clock. The proposed scan architecture localizes test power consumption to the multiple scan chains during test application. Test signals assigned to scan flip-fiops in the multiple scan chains are applied to the scan flip-flops in the second stage after the test vector has been applied to the multiple scan chains. This technique can make test power consumption very small.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61376024 and No.61306024Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No.S2013040014366Basic Research Programme of Shenzhen under Grant No.JCYJ20140417113430642 and No.JCYJ20140901003939020
文摘For the reliability and power consumption issues of Ethernet data transmission based on the field programmable gate array （FPGA）, a low-power consumption design method is proposed, which is suitable for FPGA implementation. To reduce the dynamic power consumption of integrated circuit （IC） design, the proposed method adopts the dynamic control of the clock frequency. For most of the time, when the port is in the idle state or lower-rate state, users can reduce or even turn off the reading clock frequency and reduce the clock flip frequency in order to reduce the dynamic power consumption. When the receiving rate is high, the reading clock frequency will be improved timely to ensure that no data will lost. Simulated and verified by Modelsim, the proposed method can dynamically control the clock frequency, including the dynamic switching of high-speed and low-speed clock flip rates, or stop of the clock flip.
文摘The objective of the work is to design a new clock gated based flip flop for pipelining architecture. In computing and consumer products, the major dynamic power is consumed in the system’s clock signal, typically about 30% to 70% of the total dynamic (switching) power consumption. Several techniques to reduce the dynamic power have been developed, of which clock gating is predominant. In this work, a new methodology is applied for gating the Flip flop by which the power will be reduced. The clock gating is employed to the pipelining stage flip flop which is active only during valid data are arrived. The methodology used in project named Selective Look-Ahead Clock Gating computes the clock enabling signals of each FF one cycle ahead of time, based on the present cycle data of those FFs on which it depends. Similarly to data-driven gating, it is capable of stopping the majority of redundant clock pulses. In this work, the circuit implementation of the various blocks of data driven clock gating is done and the results are observed. The proposed work is used for pipelining stage in microprocessor and DSP architectures. The proposed method is simulated using the quartus for cyclone 3 kit.
