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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University, USA
Chien-In Henry Chen, Wright State University, USA
Due to the increased importance of speed on microprocessor circuits, the complexity in transistor sizing for timing optimization increases due to channel-connected transistors on various paths of the design. In this paper, an efficient approach to transistor sizing of dynamic CMOS circuits for timing optimization while considering the Load Balance of Multiple Paths, named LBMP, is proposed. The iterative optimization algorithm is a deterministic approach and illustrated first by a 2-b weighted binary-to-thermometric converter (BTC), of which the critical path is optimized from an initial delay of 287.57 ps to an optimal delay of 161.37 ps which accounts for a 43.9% delay improvement. Then by a 64-b adder partitioned to a mixed dynamic-static style, the critical path is optimized to 686.11 ps and the power delay product is optimized to 91.6 pJ.
Citation:
Kumar Yelamarthi, Chien-In Henry Chen, "Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization," isqed, pp.426-431, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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