A fast low-power driver for long interconnections in VLSI systems

Author

Nekili, Mohamed ; Savaria, Yvon ; Bois, Guy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Montreal Univ., Que., Canada

Volume

4

fYear

1994

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1994

Firstpage

343

Abstract

Propagation delays of signals on long interconnections and power consumption are very important limitations to the computing capacity of VLSI chips. Thus, this paper presents a low-power circuit for the fast propagation of signals on long interconnections in VLSI systems. Using electrical simulations with HSPICE guided by a heuristic, we present two designs that perform better in terms of speed and area than the conventional method. With both designs, power dissipation is reduced by 64%

Keywords

SPICE; VLSI; circuit analysis computing; delays; driver circuits; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit modelling; HSPICE; IC interconnections; VLSI systems; area; computing capacity; electrical simulations; low-power driver; power consumption; power dissipation; propagation delays; speed; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Design methodology; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Integrated circuit interconnections; Power dissipation; Power system interconnection; Propagation delay; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1915-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409267

Filename

409267