Combinational Circuit Design Chapter 6 Combinational Circuit Design
Compound Gates
Asymmetric Gates To optimize for the input-to-output delay Cap on the input A is (2+4/3)=10/3 Logical effort=(10/3)/3=10/9 Better than Normal NAND gates (4/3) To optimize for the input-to-output delay
Pseudo-nMOS works well for wide NOR structures than NAND structures HW. 6.19
Cascade Voltage Switch Logic (CSVL) Advantages: 1. Without the static power consumption 2. Due to logic with nMOS, the speed can be improved 3. The input capacitance is reduced 4. Require the complement logic HW. 6.26
Dynamic Circuits
To ovoid error contention during precharge phase Footed and Unfooted DG To ovoid error contention during precharge phase
Dynamic Gates Advantages: 1.Zero static power consumption 2. Fastest circuit family Disadvantages: Require Clocking Consume dynamic power consumption 3. Sensitive to noise
Problems of Dynamic Gates
Inherent non-inverting Domino Gates Inherent non-inverting
DG suffers from charge leakage on the dynamic node. Keepers DG suffers from charge leakage on the dynamic node. Keeper is a weak MOS that holds the output at the correct level when it floats.
Charge Sharing of DG
NP Domino Gates
Pass-Transistor Circuits
CMOS TG
Threshold Drops
Ratio Failures Weak transistor must be sufficiently small that the output level falls below VIL of the next stage
Charge Sharing
Power Supply Noise IR drop and di/dt noise cause noise margin problems and degrade delay margins
Back-gate Coupling Resulting in a droop on the dynamic node X
Sense Amplifier