This paper relates the potential energy savings to the energy profile of a circuit. These savings are obtained by using gate sizing and supply voltage optimization to minimize energy consumption subject to a delay constraint. The sensitivity of energy to delay is derived from a linear delay model extended to multiple supplies. The optimizations are applied to a range of examples that span typic...

Under 500ps Yong-Bin Kim Tom Chen Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado State University Abstract This paper presents a variable delay line DLL circuit implemented in a 0.8 m CMOS technology. A phase detector and two charge pump circuits calibrate the delay per stage of the delay line using push-pull type clock synchronization scheme. The delay line can be programmed 6 to 18 stages. The...

Silicon photonic interconnection networks can provide significant advantages in bandwidth densities and data communication energy efficiencies over electronic-interconnected systems. However, due to the circuit switched nature of photonics, the latencies associated with circuit setup and reconfiguration must be managed to avoid added delays in application execution time. This work characterizes...

An all-digital on-chip delay sensor (OCDS) circuit with high delay-measurement resolution and low supply-voltage sensitivity for efficient detection and diagnosis in high-performance electronic system applications is presented. Based on the proposed delay measurement scheme, the quantization resolution of the proposed OCDS can be reduced to several picoseconds. Additionally, the proposed cascad...

We consider the problem of synthesizing the asynchronous wrappers and glue logic needed for the correct GALS implementation of a modular synchronous system. Our approach is based on the weakly endochronous synchronous model, which defines high-level, implementation-independent conditions guaranteeing correct desynchronization at the level of the abstract synchronous model. We can therefore fact...

A Continuous-Time Analog Circuit for Computing Time Delays Between Signals Chiang-Jung Pu and John G. Harris University of Florida EE Dept., 446 CSE Bldg 42 Gainesville, FL 32611 Abstract| We describe an analog VLSI circuit that computes the time delay between an arbitrary input signal and its delayed version. Versions of this circuit will be used as the basic computational elements for human a...

AbstructA direct approach to transistor sizing for minimizing the power consumption of a CMOS circuit under a delay constraint is presented. In contrast to the existing assumption that the power consumption of a static CMOS circuit is proportional to the active area of the circuit, it is shown that the power consumption is a convex function of the active area. Analytical formulation for the pow...

In this paper, a new structure possessing the advantages of low-power consumption, less hardware and high-speed is proposed for fuzzy controller. The maximum output delay for general fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) is about 86 ns corresponding to 11.63 MFLIPS (fuzzy logic inference per second) while this amount of the delay in the designed fuzzy controller becomes 52ns that corresponds to 19.23 M...

A direct approach to transistor sizing for minimizing the power consumption of a CMOS circuit under a delay constraint is presented. In contrast to the existing assumption that the power consumption of a static CMOS circuit is proportional to the active area of the circuit, it is shown that the power consumption is a convex function of the active area. Analytical formulation for the power dissi...