NTL with complementary emitter-follower driver: a high-speed low-power push-pull logic circuit

Author

Chuang, Ching-Te

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

26

Issue

4

fYear

1991

fDate

4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

661

Lastpage

665

Abstract

A high-speed low-power nonthreshold-logic (NTL)-based push-pull logic circuit, featuring a complementary emitter-follower driver is presented. Compared with the standard NTL circuit, the circuit offers a much better balance between the pull-up and pull-down delay, improved scalability, and superior load driving capability. Simulation results based on a 0.8-μm double-poly. self-aligned complementary bipolar technology indicate that at a power consumption of 1.22 mW/gate, the circuit offers 2.4× improvement in the pull-down delay of a loaded gate and 4.0× improvement in the load driving capability over the standard NTL circuit. The design and scaling considerations of the circuit are discussed

Keywords

bipolar integrated circuits; integrated logic circuits; 0.8 micron; 1.22 mW; NTL circuit; complementary bipolar technology; complementary emitter-follower driver; double-poly; high-speed; load driving capability; low-power; power consumption; pull-down delay; pull-up delay; push-pull logic circuit; scalability; self-aligned; Circuit simulation; Delay; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Logic circuits; Parasitic capacitance; Scalability; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.75070

Filename

75070