Title
A DLL-based Body Bias Generator for Minimum Energy Operation with Independent P-well and N-well Bias
Abstract
This paper proposes an area- and energy-efficient DLL-based body bias generator (BBG) for minimum energy operation that controls p-well and n-well bias independently so that the BBG can minimize total energy consumption under a skewed process condition between nMOSFETs and pMOSFETs. The proposed BBG is composed of digital cells compatible with cell-based design, which results in low energy consumption and small area. A test circuit is implemented in a 65-nm FDSOI process. Measurement results using a 32-bit RISC processor implemented on the same chip show that the proposed BBG can reduce energy consumption close to a minimum where the amount of excess energy is 3%. In this condition, energy and area overheads of the BBG are 0.2% and 0.12%, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/APCCAS50809.2020.9301711
2020 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
total energy consumption,skewed process condition,BBG,cell-based design,low energy consumption,65-nm FDSOI process,energy consumption close,minimum energy operation,energy-efficient DLL-based body bias generator
Conference
978-1-7281-9397-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kentaro Nagai100.34
Jun Shiomi200.68
Hidetoshi Onodera3455105.29