• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.10
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• pp.39-50
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• 1998

Wide-band sharp-transition filters are widely used in applications such as wireless CODEC design or medical systems. Since these filters suffer from large sensitivity and roundoff noise, large word-length is required for the VLSI implementation, which increases the hardware size and the power consumption of the chip. In this paper, a low-power implementation technique for digital filters with wide-band sharp-transition characteristics is proposed using CPL (Complementary Pass-Transistor Logic), LWDF (Lattice Wave Digital Filter) and a modified DIFIR (Decomposed & Interpolated FIR) algorithm. To reduce the short-circuit current component in CPL circuits due to threshold voltage reduction through the pass transistor, three different approaches can be used: cross-coupled PMOS latch, PMOS body biasing and weak PMOS latch. Of the three, the cross-coupled PMOS latch approach is the most realistic solution when the noise margin as well as the energy-delay product is considered. To optimize CPL transistor size with insight, the empirical formulas for the delay and energy consumption in the basic structure of CPL circuits were derived from the simulation results. In addition, the filter coefficients are encoded using CSD (Canonic Signed Digit) format and optimized by a coefficient quantization program. The hardware cost is minimized further by a modified DIFIR algorithm. Simulation result shows that the proposed method can achieve about 38% reductions in power consumption compared with the conventional method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.51-51
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 CMOS 로직과 pass-transistor logic(PTL)의 장점만을 가진 새로운 복합모드로직(Compound Mode Logic)을 제안하였다. 제안된 로직은 VLSI설계에서 중요하게 부각되고 있는 저전력, 고속 동작이 가능하며 실제로 전가산기를 설계하여 측정 한 결과 복합모드 로직의 power-delay 곱은 일반적인 CMOS로직에 비해 약 22% 개선되었다 제안한 복합모드 로직을 이용하여 고성능 32×32-bit 곱셈기를 설계 제작하였다. 본 논문의 곱셈기는 개선된 사인선택(Sign Select) Booth 인코더, 4-2 및 9-2 압축기로 구성된 데이터 압축 블록, 그리고 carry 생성 블록을 분리한 64-bit 조건 합 가산기로 구성되어 있다. 0.6um 1-poly 3-metal CMOS 공정을 이용하여 제작된 32×32-bit 곱셈기는 28,732개의 트랜지스터와 1.59×l.68 ㎜2의 면적을 가졌다. 측정 결과 32×32-bit 곱셈기의 곱셈시간은 9.8㎱ 이었으며, 3.3V 전원 전압에서 186㎽의 전력 소모를 하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.447-458
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• 2003

A high speed multiplier is essential basic building block for digital signal processors today. Typically iterative algorithms in Signal processing applications are realized which need a large number of multiply, add and accumulate operations. This paper describes a macro block of a parallel structured multiplier which has adopted a 32$\times$32-b regularly structured tree (RST). To improve the speed of the tree part, modified partial product generation method has been devised at architecture level. This reduces the 4 levels of compression stage to 3 levels, and propagation delay in Wallace tree structure by utilizing 4-2 compressor as well. Furthermore, this enables tree part to be combined with four modular block to construct a CSA tree (carry save adder tree). Therefore, combined with four modular block to construct a CSA tree (carry save adder tree). Therefore, multiplier architecture can be regularly laid out with same modules composed of Booth selectors, compressors and Modified Partial Product Generators (MPPG). At the circuit level new Booth selector with less transistors and encoder are proposed. The reduction in the number of transistors in Booth selector has a greater impact on the total transistor count. The transistor count of designed selector is 9 using PTL(Pass Transistor Logic). This reduces the transistor count by 50% as compared with that of the conventional one. The designed multiplier in 0.25${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ technology, 2.5V, 1-poly and 5-metal CMOS process is simulated by Hspice and Epic. Delay is 4.2㎱ and average power consumes 1.81㎽/MHz. This result is far better than conventional multiplier with equal or better than the best one published.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.52-62
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• 2003

This paper discusses ternary logic gate, ternary D flip-flop, and ternary four-digit parallel input/output register. The ternary logic gates consist of n-channel pass transistors and neuron MOS(νMOS) threshold inverters on voltage mode. They are designed with a transmission function using threshold inverter that are in turn, designed using Down Literal Circuit(DLC) that has various threshold voltages. The νMOS pass transistor is very suitable gate to the multiple-valued logic(MVL) and has the input signal of the multi-level νMOS threshold inverter. The ternary D flip-flop uses the storage element of the ternary data. The ternary four-digit parallel input/output register consists of four ternary D flip-flops which can temporarily store four-digit ternary data. In this paper, these circuits use 3.3V low power supply voltage and 0.35m process parameter, and also represent HSPICE simulation result.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.311-323
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• 1997

This paper presents a fast fault simulation system for detecting stuck-at faults in mixed-level combinational logic circuits with gale level and switch -level primitives. For a practical fault simulator, the types are not restricted to static switch-level and/or gate-level circuits, but include dynamic switch-level circuits. To efficiently handle the multiple signal contention problems at wired logic elements, we propose a six-valued logic system and its logic calculus which are used together with signal strength information. As a basic algorithm for the fault simulation process, a well -known gate-level parallel pattern single fault propagation(PPSFP) technique is extended to switch-level circuits in order to handle pass-transistor circuits and precharged logic circuits as well as static CMOS circuits. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency of our system through the experimental results for switch-level ISCAS85 benchmark combinational circuits and various industrial mixed-level circuits.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.356-359
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• 1999

A high performance 16bit multiplier for asynchronous systems has been designed using asynchronous design methodology. The 4-radix modified Booth algorithm, TSPC (true single phase clocking) registers, and modified 4-2 counters using DPTL (differential pass transistor logic) have been used in our multiplier. It is implemented in 0.65${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ double-poly/double-metal CMOS technology by using 6616 transistors with core size of 1.4$\times$1.1$\textrm{mm}^2$. And our design results in a computation rate exceeding 60MHz at a supply voltage of 3.3V.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.556-558
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• 2004

최근 VLSI 설계 분야에서, 단열 논리는 에너지 효율성이 뛰어난 저전력 설계 기술 중 하나로 각광 받고 있다. 이러한 단열 논리는 기존의 저전력 회로 설계를 위해 사용되었던 CMOS 논리들을 서서히 대체해 나갈 컷으로 기대되고 있다. 하지만 않은 단열 논리들의 제시에도 불구하고, 기존의 CMOS논리들을 단열 논리로 대체하는 기법에 관한 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. 이 논문에서는 래치형 패스 트랜지스터 단열 논리(LPAL)와 이를 이용한 저전력 설계 기법을 소개하였다. 래치형 패스 트랜지스터 단열 논리는 기존의 단열 논리들이 가지고 있는 단정을 해결하고, 보다 저전력 지향적으로 CMOS논리를 대체 할 수 있다는 장점을 가진다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.147-151
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• 2024

The importance of Wireless Sensor Networks is becoming more evident owing to their practical applications in various areas. However, the energy problem remains a critical barrier to the progress of WSNs. By reducing the energy consumed by the sensor nodes that constitute WSNs, the performance and lifespan of WSNs will be enhanced. In this study, we introduce an energy-efficient ternary modulator that employs multi-threshold CMOS for logic conversion. We optimized the design with a low-power ternary gate structure based on a pass transistor using the MTCMOS process. Our design uses 71.69% fewer transistors compared to the previous design. To demonstrate the improvements in our design, we conducted the HSPICE simulation using a CMOS 180 nm process with a 1.8V supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed ternary modulator is more energy-efficient than the previous modulator. Power-delay product, a benchmark for energy efficiency, is reduced by 97.19%. Furthermore, corner simulations demonstrate that our modulator is stable against PVT variations.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

With the recent development of portable system such as mobile communication and multimedia. Full adders are important components in applications such as digital signal processors and microprocessors. Thus It is important to improve the power dissipation and operating speed for designing a full adder. We propose a new adder with modified version of conventional Ratioed logic and Pass Transistor logic. The proposed adder has the advantages over the conventional CMOS, TGA, 14T logic. The delay time is improved by 13% comparing to the average value and PDP(Power Delay Product) is improved by 9% comparing to the average value. Layouts have been carried out using a 0.18um CMOS design rule for evaluation purposes. The physical design has been evaluated using HSPICE.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.60-70
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• 2000

An 8$\times$8+20-bit MAC is designed with low power design methodologies at each of the system design levels. At algorithm level, a new method for multipl $y_tract operation is proposed, and it saves the transistor counts over conventional methods in hardware realization. A new Booth selector circuit using NMOS pass-transistor logic is also proposed at circuit level. It is superior to other circuits designed by CMOS in power-delay-product. And at architecture level, we adopted an ELM adder that is known to be the most efficient in power consumption, operating frequency, area and design regularity as the final adder. For registers, dynamic CMOS single-edge triggered flip-flops are used because they need less transistors per bit. To increase the operating frequency 2-stage pipeline architecture is adopted, and fast 4：2 compressors are applied in Wallace tree block. As a simulation result, the designed MAC in 0.6${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ 1-poly 3-metal CMOS process is operated at 200MHz, 3.3V and consumed 35㎽ of power in multiply operation, and operated at 100MHz consuming 29㎽ in MAC operations, respectively.ly.