Paper Info
Title
Implementation Of Voltage-Mode/Current-Mode Hybrid Circuits For A Low-Power Fine-Grain Reconfigurable Vlsi
Abstract
This paper proposes low-power voltage-mode/current-mode hybrid circuits to realize an arbitrary two-variable logic function and a full-adder function. The voltage and current mode can be selected for low-power operations at low and high frequency, respectively, according to speed requirement. An nMOS pass transistor network is shared to realize voltage switching and current steering for the voltage- and current-mode operations, respectively, which leads to high utilization of the hardware resources. As a result, when the operating frequency is more than 1.15 GHz, the current mode of the hybrid logic circuit is more power-efficient than the voltage mode. Otherwise, the voltage mode is more power-efficient. The power consumption of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit is lower than that of the conventional two-input look-up table (LUT) using CMOS transmission gates, when the operating frequency is more than 800 MHz. The delay and area of the hybrid two-variable logic circuit are increased by only 7% and 13%, respectively
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1587/transele.E97.C.1028
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
voltage-mode/current-mode hybrid design, arbitrary two-variable function circuit, fine-grain reconfigurable VLSI
Voltage,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Electronic circuit,Current mode,Very-large-scale integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E97C
10
1745-1353
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Bai1379.94
Michitaka Kameyama243199.93