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Low power SoCs with resonant dynamic logic using inductors for energy recovery
I. Bezzam, S. Krishnan,
Published in IEEE Computer Society
2015
Volume: 07-10-October-2012
   
Pages: 307 - 310
Abstract
High speed dynamic logic implementations have power consumption bottlenecks when driving large capacitive loads that occur in clock trees, memory bit/word lines and I/O pads. This severely limits their use in a System on Chip (SoC) at Gigabit rates. A novel dynamic logic gate that saves switching power by 50% with LC resonance is described. The stored energy on the load capacitance is transferred using an inductor during logic evaluation and recovered back for pre-charge, rather than being wasted. Implementation in a standard 90nm CMOS process illustrates feasibility with realistic on-chip inductors. Inductor values below 5nH are sufficient to operate at 1GHz speed driving 1pF of load while consuming less than 1.1mW of power from a 1.8V supply, thus breaking the f.CV2 barrier. The savings are realized over a wider range of frequency and less sensitive to LC variations than previously reported. © 2012 IEEE.
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JournalData powered by TypesetIEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC
PublisherData powered by TypesetIEEE Computer Society
ISSN23248432
Open AccessNo