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A Design of Prescaler with High-Speed and Low-Power D-Flip Flops  

Park Kyung-Soon (STATS ChipPAC korea Ltd.)
Seo Hae-Jun (School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk University)
Yoon Sang-Il (School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk University)
Cho Tae-Won (School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk University)
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Abstract
An prescaler which uses PLL(Phase Locked Loop) must satisfy high speed operation and low power consumption. Thus the performance or TSPC(True Single Phase Clocked) D-flip flops which is applied at Prescaler is very important. Power consumption of conventional TSPC D-flip flops was increased with glitches from output and unnecessary discharge at internal node in precharge phase. We proposed a new D-flip flop which reduced two clock transistors for precharge and discharge Phase. With inserting a new PMOS transistor to the input stage, we could prevent from unnecessary discharge in precharge phase. Moreover, to remove the glitch problems at output, we inserted an PMOS transistor in output stage. The proposed flip flop showed stable operations as well as low power consumption. The maximum frequency of prescaler by applying the proposed D-flip flop was 2.92GHz and achieved power consumption of 10.61mw at 3.3V. In comparison with prescaler applying the conventional TSPC D-flip $flop^[6]$, we obtained the performance improvement of $45.4\%$ in the view of PDP(Power-Belay-Product).
Keywords
Prescaler; TSPC(True Single Phase Clocked); D-flip flops; Low-Power Circuits;
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