A static-switching pulse domino technique for statistical power reduction of wide fan-in dynamic gates

  • Authors:
  • Rahul Singh;Jae-Cheol Son;Ukrae Cho;Gunok Jung;Min-Su Kim;Hyoungwook Lee;Suhwan Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Samsung Electronics, Gyunggi-do, South Korea;Samsung Electronics, Gyunggi-do, South Korea;Samsung Electronics, Gyunggi-do, South Korea;Samsung Electronics, Gyunggi-do, South Korea;Samsung Electronics, Gyunggi-do, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In wide fan-in dynamic domino gates, the two phase evaluate-precharge operation leads to high switching activity at the dynamic and the output nodes which introduces a significant power penalty. In this paper, we propose a pulse domino technique to reduce the overall power consumption of a wide fan-in dynamic gate by having static-like switching behavior at the dynamic node, the gate input and the output terminals. Dynamic multiplexers designed and simulated in 90-nm CMOS are used to demonstrate the energy effectiveness of the proposed design style.