Title :
Data-dependent operation speed-up through automatically-inserted signal transition detectors for ultra-low voltage logic circuits
Author :
Botman, Francois ; Bol, David ; Legat, Jean-Didier
Author_Institution :
ICTEAM Inst., Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract :
As electronics becomes more mobile, and its uses and applications more widespread, there is an increased need for a low-power yet powerful system to perform a multitude of varied of tasks. Downscaling the supply voltage improves a device´s power usage, but also severely impacts the overall performance. A careful balance must therefore be struck between the needs of the application in terms of processing speed versus power usage.
Keywords :
logic circuits; low-power electronics; automatically inserted signal transition detector; data dependent operation speed-up; supply voltage downscaling; ultralow voltage logic circuits; Clocks; Detectors; Image edge detection; Performance evaluation; Registers; Standards; Timing; CMOS digital integrated circuits; near-threshold / sub-threshold logic; transition detection; ultra-low power; ultra-low voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference (SubVT), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waltham, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1586-9
DOI :
10.1109/SubVT.2012.6404309
