Implementation of Voltage-Mode/Current-Mode Hybrid Circuits for a Low-Power Fine-Grain Reconfigurable VLSI
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This paper proposes low-power voltage-mode/current-mode hybrid circuits to realize an arbitrary two-variable logic function and a full-adder function. The voltage and current mode can be selected for low-power operations at low and high frequency, respectively, according to speed requirement. An nMOS pass transistor network is shared to realize voltage switching and current steering for the voltage- and current-mode operations, respectively, which leads to high utilization of the hardware resources. As a result, when the operating frequency is more than 1.15 GHz, the current mode of the hybrid logic circuit is more power-efficient than the voltage mode. Otherwise, the voltage mode is more power-efficient. The power consumption of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit is lower than that of the conventional two-input look-up table (LUT) using CMOS transmission gates, when the operating frequency is more than 800 MHz. The delay and area of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit are increased by only 7% and 13%, respectively
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E97-C No.10 pp.1028-1035
- Publication Date
- 2014/10/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1353
- DOI
- 10.1587/transele.E97.C.1028
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Integrated Electronics
Authors
Xu BAI
Tohoku University
Michitaka KAMEYAMA
Tohoku University
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Xu BAI, Michitaka KAMEYAMA, "Implementation of Voltage-Mode/Current-Mode Hybrid Circuits for a Low-Power Fine-Grain Reconfigurable VLSI" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E97-C, no. 10, pp. 1028-1035, October 2014, doi: 10.1587/transele.E97.C.1028.
Abstract: This paper proposes low-power voltage-mode/current-mode hybrid circuits to realize an arbitrary two-variable logic function and a full-adder function. The voltage and current mode can be selected for low-power operations at low and high frequency, respectively, according to speed requirement. An nMOS pass transistor network is shared to realize voltage switching and current steering for the voltage- and current-mode operations, respectively, which leads to high utilization of the hardware resources. As a result, when the operating frequency is more than 1.15 GHz, the current mode of the hybrid logic circuit is more power-efficient than the voltage mode. Otherwise, the voltage mode is more power-efficient. The power consumption of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit is lower than that of the conventional two-input look-up table (LUT) using CMOS transmission gates, when the operating frequency is more than 800 MHz. The delay and area of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit are increased by only 7% and 13%, respectively
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AU - Xu BAI
AU - Michitaka KAMEYAMA
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DO - 10.1587/transele.E97.C.1028
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