Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99)
A New Single-Clock Flip-Clop for Half-Swing Clocking
Wanchai, Hong Kong
January 18-January 21
ISBN: 0-7803-5012-X
We propose a new flip-flop configuration which saves about 60% of total clocking power using a half-swing clock. To use the half-swing clock, level converters or special clock drivers are traditionally required and the power consumptions of these logic cannot be ignored. In the proposed scheme, only NMOSes are clocked with half-swing clock in order to make it operate without the level converter or any other additional logics, and the random logic circuits except clock and flip-flops are supplied by V{cc} while the clock network is supplied by V{cc}/2. Compared to the conventional scheme, a great amount of power consumed in clocking which responsible for a large portion of total chip power can be saved with the proposed new flip-flop configuration.
Citation:
Young-Su Kwon, Bong-il Park, In-Cheol Park, Chong-Min Kyung, "A New Single-Clock Flip-Clop for Half-Swing Clocking," asp-dac, pp.117, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99), 1999