Title :
Investigation and design modification of delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits for minimum supply voltage operation
Author :
Coleman, David ; Di, Jia
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Abstract :
Since the introduction of energy harvesting and battery powered low- to mid-speed electronic circuits, supply voltages have been pushed to the physical limits of semiconductor devices for energy minimization and battery lifetime. Using the IBM 8RF-LM 0.13 ¿m process and a modified library, an asynchronous ALU has shown to be capable of operating at 0.1 V. This paper presents the minimum energy analysis of a delay-insensitive asynchronous ALU, its modified version for minimum supply voltage operation, and the simulation results.
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; digital arithmetic; energy harvesting; integrated circuit design; logic design; IBM 8RF-LM process; arithmetic logic unit; battery lifetime; battery powered low-to-mid-speed electronic circuit; delay-insensitive asynchronous ALU; delay-insensitive asynchronous circuit; energy harvesting; energy minimization; minimum energy analysis; minimum supply voltage operation; semiconductor device; size 0.13 mum; voltage 0.1 V; Arithmetic; Asynchronous circuits; Batteries; CMOS logic circuits; Delay; Libraries; Logic circuits; Minimization; Rails; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon), Proceedings of the
Conference_Location :
Concord, NC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5854-7
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.2010.5453926
