IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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Carry select adder with sub-block power gating for reducing active-mode leakage in sub-32-nm VLSIs
Huan Minh VoChul-Moon JungEun-Sub LeeKyeong-Sik Min
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2011 Volume 8 Issue 16 Pages 1322-1329

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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.

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