Asynchronous Design Methodology for an Efficient Implementation of Low Power ALU
G Sundar
Abstract
     

The power consumption becomes an important issue in circuit design technologies. The power dissipation in high-performance CMOS VLSI circuits like microprocessors is becoming an increasing problem. One reason for the high power dissipation is the almost universal design approach synchronous circuits, which imposes global synchrony across a chip. This is achieved by applying a common clock to all the functional units on a chip and has the undesirable side effect of causing those units to dissipate power whether or not they are doing useful work. The main objective of designing the asynchronous circuits will be there is no master clock, the reduction in silicon by following domino logic with dual-rail logic and thus ensures the power consumption in designing the circuits. We present a design technique for implementing asynchronous ALUs with CMOS domino logic and delay insensitive dual rail four- phase logic. It ensures economy in silicon area and potentially for low power consumption. The design has been described and implemented to achieve high performance in comparison with the synchronous and available asynchronous designs. This implementation justifies the claimed performance through the SPICE simulation results.

     
     
     
Keywords: Integrated Circuits, Design Styles, Domino Logic, Delay insensitive, 4-phase dual-rail logic, Arithmetic and Logic Structures


     
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