Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 12, No 1: January 2014

Power-Gating Scheme and Modeling of Near-Threshold Adiabatic Flip-Flops

Fangfang Zang (Ningbo University)
Jianping Hu (Ningbo University)
Wei Cheng (Ningbo University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jan 2014

Abstract

Technology scaling increases the density and performance of nanometer circuits, resulting in both large dynamic and leakage dissipations. This paper presents power-gating scheme, modeling, and optimization of adiabatic flip-flops operating on near-threshold regions to reduce both dynamic and leakage dissipations. The power-gated logic blocks are realized with complementary pass-transistor adiabatic logic with the dual threshold technique to reduce active leakage dissipations. The improved complementary pass-transistor adiabatic logic circuits are used as the two-phase power-gating switches to reduce the sleep leakage dissipations. The analytical model for power-gating adiabatic sequential circuits was constructed, and the energy overhead of the proposed power-gating scheme was analyzed in detail. Near-threshold computing for a power-gating adiabatic mode-10 counter was verified. The results show that the proposed power-gating technique is suitable for the adiabatic units operating on near-threshold regions. DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v12i1.3378

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