An energy-efficient CMOS line driver using adiabatic switching

Author

Athas, William C. ; Koller, Jeffrey G. ; Svensson, Lars J.

Author_Institution

Inf. Sci. Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

4-5 Mar 1994

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

199

Abstract

Describes a custom CMOS line driver chip and a resonant power supply that can switch eight 100 pF loads at 1 MHz six times more efficiently than a conventional (CV²) CMOS solution. The authors describe the adiabatic charging principle used, which allows a digital circuit designer to directly trade off switching time for increased energy efficiency. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the dissipation overhead for the whole system including the power supply. Measurements confirm the predicted dissipation decrease

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; digital integrated circuits; driver circuits; 1 MHz; 100 pF; adiabatic charging principle; adiabatic switching; custom CMOS; digital CMOS circuits; dissipation overhead; energy-efficient CMOS line driver; resonant power supply; switching time; Capacitance; Driver circuits; Energy dissipation; Energy efficiency; Logic circuits; Power supplies; RLC circuits; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI, 1994. Design Automation of High Performance VLSI Systems. GLSV '94, Proceedings., Fourth Great Lakes Symposium on

Conference_Location

Notre Dame, IN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5610-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLSV.1994.289970

Filename

289970