Low-power interface circuits between adiabatic and standard CMOS circuits
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Energy efficient interface circuits between adiabatic and standard CMOS logic at 90 nm technology
ICNVS'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Networking, VLSI and signal processing
Adiabatic and standard CMOS interfaces at 90 nm technology
WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems
Low-power register file based on adiabatic logic circuits
PATMOS'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
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This paper presents a novel low-power register file based on adiabatic logic. The register file consists of a storage-cell array, address decoders, read/write control circuits, sense amplifiers, and read/write drivers. The storage-cell array is based on the conventional memory cell. All the circuits except the storage-cell array employ CPAL (complementary pass-transistor adiabatic logic) to recover the charge of large node capacitance on address decoders, bit-lines and word-lines in fully adiabatic manner. The minimization of energy consumption was investigated by choosing the optimal size of CPAL circuits for large load capacitance. The power consumption of the proposed adiabatic register file is significantly reduced because the energy transferred to the large capacitance buses is mostly recovered. The energy and functional simulations are performed using the net-list extracted from the layout. HSPICE simulation results indicate that the proposed register file attains energy savings of 65% to 85% as compared to the conventional CMOS implementation for clock rates ranging from 25 to 200 MHz.