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Capacitance Selection for Digital Floating Gate Circuits Operating in Subthreshold
Mittuniversitetet, Fakulteten för naturvetenskap, teknik och medier, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier.
Mittuniversitetet, Fakulteten för naturvetenskap, teknik och medier, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier. (STC)ORCID-id: 0000-0001-9572-3639
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2006 (Engelska)Ingår i: Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE conference proceedings, 2006, s. 4341-4344, artikel-id 1693590Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

For digital circuits with ultra-low power consumption, floating-gate circuits (FGMOS) have been considered to be a potentially better technique than standard static CMOS circuits. By having a DC offset on the floating gates, the effective threshold voltage of the floating-gate transistor is adjusted and the speed and power performance can be altered. In this paper we have investigated how the floating-gate capacitances can be selected to achieve the best performance in floating-gate circuits operating at subthreshold power supply. Based on circuit simulations in a 120nm process technology, it is shown that the EDP offers a reduction of more than one order of magnitude for FGMOS with capacitance selection in comparison to static CMOS circuits. This paper also deals with the possibilities available for trade-offs between lower power consumption and higher speed to achieve a better performance for FGMOS than for static CMOS. The main cost involved in achieving these performance improvements is reduced noise margins

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IEEE conference proceedings, 2006. s. 4341-4344, artikel-id 1693590
Serie
IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMP ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, ISSN 0277-674X
Nyckelord [en]
low power
Nationell ämneskategori
Elektroteknik och elektronik
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-3743DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693590ISI: 000245413504168Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-34547241637Lokalt ID: 4017ISBN: 978-0-7803-9389-9 (tryckt)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-3743DiVA, id: diva2:28775
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ISCAS 2006: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems; Kos; Greece; 21 May 2006 through 24 May 2006
Projekt
STC - Sensible Things that CommunicateTillgänglig från: 2009-01-07 Skapad: 2009-01-07 Senast uppdaterad: 2020-01-29Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. Limitations of subthreshold digital floating-gate circuits in present and future nanoscale CMOS technologies
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Limitations of subthreshold digital floating-gate circuits in present and future nanoscale CMOS technologies
2008 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University, 2008. s. 129
Serie
Mid Sweden University doctoral thesis, ISSN 1652-893X ; 54
Nationell ämneskategori
Elektroteknik och elektronik
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-7567 (URN)978-91-85317-97-4 (ISBN)
Disputation
(Engelska)
Handledare
Tillgänglig från: 2008-12-10 Skapad: 2008-12-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2011-02-06Bibliografiskt granskad
2. Performance of Digital Floating-Gate Circuits Operating at Subthreshold Power Supply Voltages
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Performance of Digital Floating-Gate Circuits Operating at Subthreshold Power Supply Voltages
2007 (Engelska)Licentiatavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

All who is involved in electronic design knows that one of the critical issues

in today’s electronic is the power consumption. Designers are always looking for

new approaches in order to reduce currents while still retain performance.

Floating-gate (FGMOS) circuits have previously been shown to be a promising

technique to improve speed and still keep the power consumption low when

power supply is reduced below subthreshold voltage for the transistors.

In this thesis, the goal is to determine how good floating-gate circuits can be

compared to conventional static CMOS when the circuits are working in

subthreshold. The most interesting performance parameters are speed and power

consumption and specifically the Energy-Delay Product (EDP) that is a

combination of those two. To get a view over how the performance varies and how

good the FGMOS circuits are at their best case, the circuits have been designed and

simulated for best case performance.

The investigation also includes trade-offs with speed and power

consumption for better performance, how to select floating-gate capacitances, how

a large circuit fan-in will affect performance and also the influence of different

kinds of refresh circuits.

The first simulations of the FGMOS circuits in a 0.13 μm process have

several interesting results. First of all, in the best case it is shown that FGMOS has

potential to achieve up to 260 times in better EDP-performance compared to CMOS

at 150 mV power supply. Continuing with simulations of FGMOS capacitances

shows that minimum floating-gate capacitance can be as small as 400 fF and more

realistic performance shows that EDP is 37 times better for FGMOS (with parasitic

capacitances included). Other aspects of FGMOS design have been to look at how

refresh circuits will affect performance (semi-floating-gate circuits) and how a

larger fan-in will change noise margin and EDP. It turns out that refresh circuits

with the same transistor size does not give a noticeable change in performance

while an increase of 8 times in size will give between 5 and 10 times wors EDP.

When it comes to fan-in the simulations shows that a maximum fan-in of 5 is

possible at 250 mV supply and it decrease to 3 when supply voltage is reduced to

150 mV.

Finally, it should be kept in mind that tuning the performance of FGMOS

circuits with trade-offs and by changing the floating-gate voltages to achieve

results like the ones stated above will also always affect the noise margins, NM, of

the circuits. As a consequence of this, the NM will sometimes be so close to 1 that a

fabricated circuit with that NM may not be as functional as simulations suggests.

The probability to design functional FGMOS circuits in subthreshold does not

seem to be a problem though.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet, 2007. s. 44
Serie
Mid Sweden University licentiate thesis, ISSN 1652-8948 ; 18
Nationell ämneskategori
Elektroteknik och elektronik
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-9333 (URN)91-85317-35-7 (ISBN)
Presentation
(Engelska)
Opponent
Handledare
Tillgänglig från: 2009-07-10 Skapad: 2009-07-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2011-02-06Bibliografiskt granskad

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