• DocumentCode
    2259073
  • Title

    Implementing digital logic with sinusoidal supplies

  • Author

    Bollapalli, Kalyana C. ; Khatri, Sunil P. ; Kish, Laszlo B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of ECE, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    8-12 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    315
  • Lastpage
    318
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a new type of combinational logic circuit realization is presented. Logic values are implemented as sinusoidal signals. Sinusoidal signals of the same frequency are phase shifted by ?? to destructively interfere with each other, and represent the logic 0 and 1 values of Boolean Logic. These properties of sinusoids can be used to identify a signal without ambiguity. Thus, representing logic values as sinusoidal signals yields a realizable system of logic. The paper presents a logic gate family that can operate using the sinusoidal signals for logic 0 and logic 1 values. Due to orthogonality of sinusoid signals with different frequencies, multiple sinusoids could be transmitted on a single wire. This provides a natural way of implementing multilevel logic. Signals traveling long distances could take advantage of this fact and can share interconnect lines. Recent research in circuit design has made it possible to harvest sinusoidal signals of the same frequency and 180?? phase difference from a single resonant clock ring in a distributed manner. Other advantage of such a logic family is its immunity from external additive noise. The experiments in this paper indicate that this paradigm, when used to implement binary valued logic, yields an improvement in switching (dynamic) power.
  • Keywords
    Boolean algebra; combinational circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; logic circuits; logic design; Boolean logic; additive noise; binary valued logic; circuit design; combinational logic circuit realization; digital logic; interconnect lines; logic gate family; multilevel logic; sinusoidal signals; sinusoidal supplies; Boolean functions; Circuit synthesis; Clocks; Combinational circuits; Frequency; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic gates; Resonance; Signal processing; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2010
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden
  • ISSN
    1530-1591
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7054-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DATE.2010.5457188
  • Filename
    5457188