Power consumption in reversible logic addressed by a ramp voltage

  • Authors:
  • Alexis De Vos;Yvan Van Rentergem

  • Affiliations:
  • Imec v.z.w. and Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium;Imec v.z.w. and Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS'05 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Reversible MOS or r-MOS is a logic family that inherently promises asymptotically-zero power consumption. We deduce a simple formula for calculating the power consumption. It rightly highlights the unfortunate influence of the threshold voltages of the MOS transistors.