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Skew Minimization With Low Power for Wide-Voltage-Range Multipower-Mode Designs


Abstract:

In a multipower-mode design, as the range of the supply voltage becomes wide, a large clock skew may occur among different power domains. To remove this clock skew, conve...Show More

Abstract:

In a multipower-mode design, as the range of the supply voltage becomes wide, a large clock skew may occur among different power domains. To remove this clock skew, conventional power-mode-aware buffers (PMABs) require a large overhead on power consumption. In this brief, we propose a new PMAB architecture for wide-voltage-range multipower-mode designs. The proposed PMAB architecture is composed of two serially connected sub-PMABs at two different voltage levels, respectively. In the front sub-PMAB, the low voltage level is used for coarse-grained clock skew minimization. In the back sub-PMAB, the high voltage level is used for fine-grained clock skew minimization. Benchmark data show that the proposed approach can effectively eliminate the clock skew with small power consumption.
Page(s): 1189 - 1192
Date of Publication: 12 June 2015

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