Title :
Design of adiabatic multi-port register file
Author :
Ang, Ang ; Song, Ia ; Jiu, I.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The paper presents one kind of adiabatic driver for multi-port register file. Between decoder part and memory array, the adiabatic driver is added to reduce the power dissipation of word-line. At the same time, we also designed adiabatic sensing amplifier for register file. Adiabatic circuits require trapezoidal wave or sinusoidal wave as inputs and outputs. But the register file presented in this paper hasn´t any requirement for inputs, so it can be easily used in embedded microprocessors. The experiment results show that the power dissipation of adiabatic register file reduces 40% versus traditional register file.
Keywords :
amplifiers; driver circuits; shift registers; adiabatic driver; adiabatic multi-port register file; adiabatic sensing amplifier; Clocks; Costs; Decoding; Driver circuits; Microprocessors; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power dissipation; Registers; Voltage; adiabatic circuit; low power; microprocessor; register file;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC, 2005. ASICON 2005. 6th International Conference On
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9210-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICASIC.2005.1611319