Reducing transistor count in clocked standard cells with ambipolar double-gate FETs
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures
Novel library of logic gates with ambipolar CNTFETs: opportunities for multi-level logic synthesis
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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This paper presents 2-inputs cells designed to perform reconfigurable operations in nanometric systems exploiting the ambipolar property of double-gate (DG) carbon nanotube (CNT) FETs. Previous work [1] described a dynamic logic cell generating only 14 functions instead of 16 normally performed by the multiplexer-based logic part of a CLB (Configurable Logic Block) of an FPGA for 2-inputs. In this work, a reconfigurable 2-input dynamic logic cell designed using DG-CNTFET devices is able to achieve the whole set of 16 functions exploiting a specific correlation between input and configuration signals to offer full functionality over previous version. We also built a reconfigurable 2-input static logic cell which performs 16 functions. Both cells demonstrate a significant reduction in circuit complexity with respect to conventional CMOS-based reconfigurable cells for equivalent functionality. Compared with a 2-LUT, the dynamic cell improve the time delay by a factor of 2X to the detriment of 2X increase in power consumption, while the static logic cell shows an improvement of 2X in term of power consumption and time delay.