Title :
Optimizing CMOS implementations of the C-element
Author :
Shams, Maitham ; Ebergen, Jo C. ; Elmasry, Mohamed I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The C-element is one of the most frequently used primitives in asynchronous control circuits. This paper introduces various single-rail and double-rail implementations of the C-element, explains ways to optimize their performance and compares them with respect to energy and speed in a micropipeline control circuit environment. The issue of divergence of the complementary outputs in the double-rail implementations is also discussed
Keywords :
CMOS logic circuits; asynchronous circuits; logic CAD; C-element; CMOS implementations optimisation; asynchronous control circuits; micropipeline control circuit environment; performance; Circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1997. ICCD '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8206-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1997.628941
