A Novel Low-Power Bus Design for Bus-Invert Coding

Myungchul YOON
Byeong-hee ROH

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E90-C    No.4    pp.731-734
Publication Date: 2007/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.4.731
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Low-Power, High-Speed LSIs and Related Technologies)
Category: Digital
Keyword: 
NIL-BIC,  flip-driver,  low-power bus scheme,  bus-invert coding,  

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Summary: 
This letter presents a novel implementation for Bus-Invert Coding called No Invert-Line Bus-Invert Coding (NIL-BIC) architecture. It not only removes the invert-lines used in previous BIC implementations, but sends the coding information without additional bus-transitions. NIL-BIC can save about 50% more bus-power than the implementations using invert-line.