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Low-Power High-Speed 180-nm CMOS Clock Drivers

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Low-Power High-Speed 180-nm CMOS Clock Drivers
- The power dissipation (PT) and delay time (tdT) of a CMOS clock driver were minimized. Eight test circuits, each of which has 2 two-stage clock drivers, and a register array were fabricated using 0.18- m CMOS technology. The first and second stages of the driver consisted of a single inverter and m inverters, respectively, and the register array stage was constructed with N delay flip-flops (D-FFs). A single inverter in the second stage drove N/m D-FFs where N was fixed at 40 and m varied from 1 to 40. Minimum PT and tdT were 251 W and 0.640 ns, respectively and were both obtained at an m of 8. These values were 48.6% and 29.4% of maximum PT and tdT, respectively. Simulated and measured results agreed well with these SPICE simulated results.
Tadayoshi Enomoto, Suguru Nagayama, Nobuaki Kobaya
Added 12 Aug 2010
Updated 12 Aug 2010
Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ASPDAC
Authors Tadayoshi Enomoto, Suguru Nagayama, Nobuaki Kobayashi
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