Title
An effective staggered-phase damping technique for suppressing power-gating resonance noise during mode transition
Abstract
This paper presents a power-gating structure that employs a staggered-phase damping technique for suppressing power and ground rails fluctuation and stabilization time during mode-transition. Two same type sleep devices coupled to two clusters in a single power domain are switched-on at different time instants such that the turn-on time of one of these is delayed by half the resonant oscillation period relative to the turn-on time of the other. The same can be generalized to plurality of clusters where one set of sleep devices switch at the first time instant and the other set switch at the said second time instant. This technique was evaluated in a 1-V 90-nm CMOS technology in the context of a 3-stage 16-bit Carry-Select-Adder (CSA) component, and compared with the parallel sleep transistor technique that is based on reducing the instantaneous excitation current. Results show that the present technique reduces peak noise by 33.2% compared to standard power-gating structure, and achieves a settling time reduction of 4.03× and 3.21× compared to standard and parallel sleep transistor power-gating structures, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISQED.2009.4810280
ISQED
Keywords
Field
DocType
standard power-gating structure,turn-on time,present technique,time reduction,effective staggered-phase,power-gating resonance noise,stabilization time,time instant,power-gating structure,mode transition,different time,transistor technique,sleep device,cmos integrated circuits,fluctuations,signal integrity,oscillations,switches,threshold voltage,cmos technology,noise,resonance,adders,noise figure,transistors,damping
Oscillation,Power domains,Adder,Computer science,Settling time,Control theory,Signal integrity,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Power gating,Transistor
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charbel J. Akl1374.57
Rafic A. Ayoubi2667.60
Magdy A. Bayoumi3803122.04