Charge recycling differential logic (CRDL) for low power application

Abstract

A novel logic family, called charge recycling differential logic (CRDL), has been proposed and analyzed, CRDL reduces power consumption by utilizing a charge recycling technique with the speed comparable to those of conventional dynamic logic circuits, It has an additional benefit of improved noise margin due to inherently static operation. The noise margin problem of true single-phase-clock latch (TSPC) is also eliminated when a CRDL logic circuit is connected to it, Two swing-suppressed-input latches (SSIL's), which are introduced for use with CRDL, have better performance than the conventional transmission gate latch. Moreover, a pipeline configuration with CRDL in a true two-phase clocking scheme shows completely race-free operation with no constraints on logic composition. Eight-bit Manchester carry chains and full adders were fabricated using a 0.8 mu m single-poly double-metal n-well CMOS technology to verify the relative performance of the proposed logic family, The measurement results indicate that about 16-48% improvements in power-delay product are obtained compared with differential cascode voltage switch (DCVS) logic.