Title
Conditional-Boosting Flip-Flop for Near-Threshold Voltage Application
Abstract
A conditional-boosting flip-flop is proposed for ultralow-voltage application where the supply voltage is scaled down to the near-threshold region. The proposed flip-flop adopts voltage boosting to provide low latency with reduced performance variability in the near-threshold voltage region. It also adopts conditional capture to minimize the switching power consumption by eliminating redundant boosting operations. Experimental results in a 65-nm CMOS process indicated that the proposed flip-flop provided up to 72% lower latency with 75% less performance variability due to process variation, and up to 67% improved energy-delay product at 25% switching activity compared with conventional precharged differential flip-flops.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2595627
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Boosting,Pulse generation,Capacitors,Niobium,Threshold voltage,Latches,Switches
Capacitor,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Voltage,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Process variation,Boosting (machine learning),Latency (engineering),Flip-flop,Threshold voltage
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
2
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jihoon Park114327.61
Hyun-Seung Seo200.68
Bai-Sun Kong315331.93