Variable supply voltage-clustered voltage scaling （VS-CVS） scheme can be very effective in reducing power consumption of CMOS circuits without degrading system performance. Level converting flip-flops （LCFFs） are ...Variable supply voltage-clustered voltage scaling （VS-CVS） scheme can be very effective in reducing power consumption of CMOS circuits without degrading system performance. Level converting flip-flops （LCFFs） are key elements in the CVS scheme. In this paper, a new explicit-pulsed double-edge triggered level converting flip-flop （nEP-DET-LCFF） is proposed, which employs double-edge triggering technique, dynamic structure, explicit pulse generator, conditional discharge technique and proper arrangement of stacked nMOS transistors to efficiently perform latching and level converting functions simultaneously. The proposed nEP-DET-LCFF combines merits of both conventional explicit-LCFFs and implicit-LCFFs. Simulation shows the proposed nEP-DET-LCFF has improvement of 19.2% -46% in delay, and 19.4% - 52.9% in power-delay product （PDP） as compared with the published LCFFs.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.60503027） Acknowledgements： The authors are grateful to Prof. Zhao PeiYi of Chapman University, Orange, USA, for beneficial discussions.
文摘Variable supply voltage-clustered voltage scaling （VS-CVS） scheme can be very effective in reducing power consumption of CMOS circuits without degrading system performance. Level converting flip-flops （LCFFs） are key elements in the CVS scheme. In this paper, a new explicit-pulsed double-edge triggered level converting flip-flop （nEP-DET-LCFF） is proposed, which employs double-edge triggering technique, dynamic structure, explicit pulse generator, conditional discharge technique and proper arrangement of stacked nMOS transistors to efficiently perform latching and level converting functions simultaneously. The proposed nEP-DET-LCFF combines merits of both conventional explicit-LCFFs and implicit-LCFFs. Simulation shows the proposed nEP-DET-LCFF has improvement of 19.2% -46% in delay, and 19.4% - 52.9% in power-delay product （PDP） as compared with the published LCFFs.
