• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.302-317
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new full adder design based on pass-transistor logic that offers ultra-low power dissipation and superior variability together with low transistor count. The pass-transistor logic allows device count reduction through direct logic realization, and thus leads to reduction in the node capacitances as well as short-circuit currents due to the absence of supply rails. Optimum transistor sizing alleviates the adverse effects of process variations on performance metrics. The design is subjected to a comparative analysis against existing designs based on Monte Carlo simulations in a SPICE environment, using the 22-nm CMOS Predictive Technology Model (PTM). The proposed ULP adder offers 38% improvement in power in comparison to the best performing conventional designs. The trade-off in delay to achieve this power saving is estimated through the power-delay product (PDP), which is found to be competitive to conventional values. It also offers upto 79% improvement in variability in comparison to conventional designs, and provides suitable scalability in supply voltage to meet future demands of energy-efficiency in portable applications.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.669-672
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• 2004

To improve the operation error caused by the thermal fluctuation of electrons, we propose a novel single-electron pass-transistor logic circuit employing a multiple-tunnel junction (MTJ) scheme and modulate a parameters of an MTJ single-electron tunneling device (SETD) such as the number of tunnel junctions, tunnel resistance, and voltage gain. The operation of a 3-MTJ inverter circuit is simulated at 15 K with parameters $C_g=C_T=C_{clk}=1\;aF,\;R_T=5\;M{\Omega},\;V_{clk}=40\;mV$, and $V_{in}=20\;mV$. Using the SETD/MOSFET hybrid circuit, the charge state output of the proposed MTJ-SETD logic is successfully translated to the voltage state logic.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.91-94
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• 2000

This paper introduces the design of low-power, fast-locking delay locked-loop using complementary pass transistor logic(CPL). Low-power design has become one of the most important in the modem VLSI application. CPL has the advantage of fast speed, high density, and low power with signal buffering between stages. Based on this analysis, we concluded that the I/O performance can be beyond 500㎒, 2-poly, 2-metal 0.65$\mu\textrm{m}$, 3.3V supply.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 1998

In this paper, we designed a low power 8bit ELM adder with static CMOS and hybrid logic styles on a chip. The designed 8bit ELM adder with both logic styles was fabricated in a 0.8$\mu\textrm{m}$ single-poly double-metal, LG CMOS process and tested. Hybrid logic style consists of CCPL(Combinative Complementary Pass-transistor Logic), Wang's XOR gate and static CMOS for critical path which determines the speed of ELM adder. As a result of chip test, the ELM adder with hybrid logic style is superior to the one with static CMOS by 9.29% in power consumption, 14.9% in delay time and 22.8% in PDP(Power Delay Product) at 5.0V supply voltage, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.363-367
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• 1999

In this paper, a novel 108-bit conditional sum adder(CSA) with Energy Economized Pass-transistor Logic(EEPL) is proposed. A new architecture is adopted, in order to obtain a high speed operation, which is composed of seven modularized 16-bit CMS's and two separated carry generation block. Further a design technique based on EEPL is proposed to reduce the power consumption. With 0.65${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ single poly, triple metal, 3.3V CMOS process, its operating speed is about 4.95㎱ and the power consumption is reduced in comparison with that of the conventional adder.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.205-210
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• 2001

In this paper, a novel compound mode logic based on the advantage of both CMOS logic and pass-transistor logic(PTL) is proposed. From the experimental results, the power-delay products of the compound mode logic is about 22% lower than that of the conventional CMOS logic, when we design a full adder. With the proposed logic, a high performance 32$\times$32-bit multiplier has been fabricated with 0.6um CMOS technology. It is composed of an improved sign select Booth encoder, an efficient data compressor based on the compound mode logic, and a 64-bit conditional sum adder with separated carry generation block. The Proposed 32$\times$32-bit multiplier is composed of 28,732 transistors with an active area of 1.59$\times$1.68 mm2 except for the testing circuits. From the measured results, the multiplication time of the 32$\times$32-bit multiplier is 9.8㎱ at a 3.3V power supply, and it consumes about 186㎽ at 100MHz.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.8 no.1 s.14
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• pp.33-38
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• 2004

A multi-valued logic(MVL) pass gate is an important element to configure multi-valued logic. In this paper, we designed the Quaternary MIN(QMIN)/negated MIN(QNMIN) gate, the Quaternary MAX(QMAX)/negated MAX(QNMAX) gate using double pass-transistor logic(DPL) with neuron $MOS({\nu}MOS)$ threshold gate. DPL is improved the gate speed without increasing the input capacitance. It has a symmetrical arrangement and double-transmission characteristics. The threshold gates composed by ${\nu}MOS$ down literal circuit(DLC). The proposed gates get the valued to realize various multi threshold voltages. In this paper, these circuits are used 3V power supply voltage and parameter of 0.35um N-Well 2-poly 4-metal CMOS technology, and also represented HSPICE simulation results.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.467-468
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• 2008

In this paper, a logic family, the transmission gate CMOS(TG CMOS) is proposed, which combines the transmission gate and pass transistor resulting in a different configuration from traditional full CMOS. In the simulation, basic cells comprising this logic are designed and their dynamic responses are analyzed. The simulation shows their performance is exceeding that of conventional full CMOS.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.8
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• pp.33-41
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• 1998

We have designed a high speed and low power 16bit-ELM adder with variable-sized cells uitlizing the fact that the logic depth of lower bit position is less than that of the higher bit position int he conventional ELM architecture. As a result of HSPICE simulation with 0.8.mu.m single-poly double-metal LG CMOS process parameter, out 16bit-ELM adder with variable-sized cells shows the reduction of power-delay-product, which is less than that of the conventional 16bit-ELM adder with reference-sized cells by 19.3%. We optimized the desin with various logic styles including static CMOs, pass-transistor logic and Wang's XOR/XNOR gate. Maximum delay path of an ELM adder depends on the implementation method of S cells and their logic style.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.115-124
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• 2004

This paper proposes a high efficient and low power FIR filter chip for partial-response maximum likelihood (PRML) disk drive read channels; it is a 6-bit, 8-tap digital FIR filter. The proposed filter employs a parallel processing architecture and consists of 4 pipeline stages. It uses the modified Booth algorithm for multiplication and compressor logic for addition. CMOS pass-transistor logic is used for low power consumption and single-rail logic is used to reduce the chip area. The proposed filter is actually implemented and the chip dissipates 120mV at 100MHz, uses a 3.3V power supply and occupies 1.88 ${\times}$ 1.38 $\textrm{mm}^2$. The implemented filter requires approximately 11.7% less power compared with the existing architectures that use the similar technology.