• DocumentCode
    2492230
  • Title

    Power-Delay Optimized Design of Cascaded ECL Gates

  • Author

    Grasso, A.D. ; Palumbo, G. ; Alioto, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e dei Sistemi, Catania Univ.
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    233
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    In this paper a design methodology to design low-power cascaded ECL gates is developed. The results can be applied when a power constraint is assigned, and the available current per gate is much lower than the value which minimizes the propagation delay. The strategy is process independent and is simple enough for hand calculations, avoiding the time-consuming approach based on iterative simulations. A design example based on a 20 GHz bipolar process is introduced to validate the procedure
  • Keywords
    cascade networks; emitter-coupled logic; logic design; logic gates; low-power electronics; 20 GHz; bipolar process; cascaded ECL gates; iterative simulations; power-delay optimized design; propagation delay; Capacitance; Circuits; Design methodology; Design optimization; Energy consumption; Iterative methods; Logic design; Minimization; Propagation delay; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Research in Microelectronics and Electronics 2006, Ph. D.
  • Conference_Location
    Otranto
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0157-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RME.2006.1689939
  • Filename
    1689939