A noise-immune sub-threshold circuit design based on selective use of Schmitt-trigger logic

Authors:
Marco Donato;Fabio Cremona;Warren Jin;R. Iris Bahar;William Patterson;Alexander Zaslavsky;Joseph Mundy
Affiliations:
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the great lakes symposium on VLSI
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Nanoscale circuits operating at sub-threshold voltages are affected by growing impact of random telegraph signal (RTS) and thermal noise. Given the low operational voltages and subsequently lower noise margins, these noise phenomena are capable of changing the value of some of the nodes in the circuit, compromising the reliability of the computation. We propose a method for improving noise-tolerance by selectively applying feed-forward reinforcement to circuits based on use of existing invariant relationships. As reinforcement mechanism, we used a modification of the standard CMOS gates based on the Schmitt trigger circuit. SPICE simulations show our solution offers better noise immunity than both standard CMOS and fully reinforced circuits, with limited area and power overhead.