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Third International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '97)
A Low Power Zero-Overhead Self-Timed Division and Square Root Unit Combining a Single-Rail Static Circuit with a Dual-Rail Dynamic Circuit
Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS
April 07-April 10
ISBN: 0-8186-7922-0
Gensoh Matsubara, Toshiba Corporation
Nobuhiro Ide, Toshiba Corporation
An asynchronous pipeline scheme that combines a low power static circuit with a high-speed dual-rail dynamic circuit is proposed. The scheme utilizes a dual-rail circuit only in the critical path of an SRT division and square root calculation unit. The proposed implementation of the calculation unit reduced power consumption by more than 1/2 of the full-dynamic implementation while maintaining the calculation speed. Because of the elimination of spurious transitions, the proposed implementation showed even less power consumption over synchronous static circuit implementations. By using 0.3 $B&L (Bm triple metal CMOS technology, the calculation time of floating point 56-b full mantissa division and square root is expected to be 45ns in the worst case.
Index Terms:
division, square root, self-timed, floating point
Citation:
Gensoh Matsubara, Nobuhiro Ide, "A Low Power Zero-Overhead Self-Timed Division and Square Root Unit Combining a Single-Rail Static Circuit with a Dual-Rail Dynamic Circuit," async, pp.198, Third International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '97), 1997
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