Title :
Dynamically biased current sensor for current-sensing completion detection
Author :
Lampinen, Harri ; Vainio, Olli
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
This paper presents a dynamically biased current sensor for the Current-Sensing Completion Detection (CSCD) method, which cuts off the power consumption, when the logic blocks do not operate. The proposed method is an essential improvement to all completion detection methods that use static biasing in their current sensing circuits, and where the power consumption is an important issue
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; electric current measurement; electric sensing devices; low-power electronics; activity monitoring; current sensing completion detection; current sensor; dynamic bias; low-power self-timed asynchronous logic circuit; power consumption; CMOS logic circuits; Capacitance; Circuit noise; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Delay; Encoding; Energy consumption; Monitoring; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6685-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922256
