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Efficacy Of Multi-Threshold Null Convention Logic In Low-Power Applications, Brent Bell
Efficacy Of Multi-Threshold Null Convention Logic In Low-Power Applications, Brent Bell
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In order for an asynchronous design paradigm such as Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL) to be adopted by industry, it is important for circuit designers to be aware of its advantages and drawbacks especially with respect to power usage. The power tradeoff between MTNCL and synchronous designs depends on many different factors including design type, circuit size, process node, and pipeline granularity. Each of these design dimensions influences the active power and the leakage power comparisons. This dissertation analyzes the effects of different design dimensions on power consumption and the associated rational for these effects. Results show that while MTNCL …
Asynchronous Circuit Stacking For Simplified Power Management, Andrew Lloyd Suchanek
Asynchronous Circuit Stacking For Simplified Power Management, Andrew Lloyd Suchanek
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
As digital integrated circuits (ICs) continue to increase in complexity, new challenges arise for designers. Complex ICs are often designed by incorporating multiple power domains therefore requiring multiple voltage converters to produce the corresponding supply voltages. These converters not only take substantial on-chip layout area and/or off-chip space, but also aggregate the power loss during the voltage conversions that must occur fast enough to maintain the necessary power supplies. This dissertation work presents an asynchronous Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL) “stacked” circuit architecture that alleviates this problem by reducing the number of voltage converters needed to supply the voltage the …