Title
A Digit-Serial Reconfigurable VLSI Based on Quaternary Inter-Cell Data Transfer Scheme.
Abstract
A high-throughput recontigurable VLSI using a digit-serial architecture is proposed, where two-bit data for each operand enters a cell per clock cycle. The interconnection complexity between two adjacent cells is reduced by using a quaternary inter-cell data transfer scheme. In a cell, the quaternary data is converted into binary dual-rail voltage signals, and hi nary-controlled current steering technique is introduced utilizing a programmable three-level differential-pair circuit to implement an arbitrary two-variable binary logic function and a full-adder sum/carry. In the cell output circuit, switched current sources are used to reduce power dissipation. Moreover, the CMOS logic is used to make driving capability of a ID flip-flop high. As a result, the maximum throughput of the proposed digit-serial reconfigurable VLSI using quaternary cells is twice that of the bit-serial reconfigurable VLSI, while the power-delay product is reduced to 74%. Dramatic improvement of the recontigurable VLSI can be achieved.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
JOURNAL OF MULTIPLE-VALUED LOGIC AND SOFT COMPUTING
Digit-serial architecture,Fine-grain reconfigurable VLSI,Multiple-valued VLSI,High throughput,Multiple-valued source-coupled logic,MOS current-mode logic,Low power consumption
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer architecture,Data transmission,Computer science,Parallel computing,Numerical digit,Very-large-scale integration
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-2
1542-3980
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Bai1379.94
Nobuaki Okada2383.86
Michitaka Kameyama343199.93