2011 Volume 8 Issue 16 Pages 1322-1329
In this paper, we propose the sub-block Active-Mode Power Gating (AMPG) scheme to reduce the active-mode leakage and apply it to the 32-bit Carry Select Adder (CSA), where the sub-blocks are activated and deactivated according to the idleness during the active time. By doing so, we can reduce the active-mode energy by 21% at the cycle time of 10ns for the 22-nm node compared to the conventional AMPG. The critical path delay is degraded as little as 1% in the sub-block AMPG. For a given power budget as small as 100µW, the new sub-block AMPG with 32-nm node can run faster by 47% than the conventional AMPG.