Due to limits in technology scaling, energy efficiency of logic devices is decreasing in
successive generations. To provide continued performance improvements without …

The VLSI memory era truly began when the first production of semiconduc tor memory was
announced by IBM and Intel in 1970. The announcement had a profound impact on my …

We have proposed a low power SRAM using an effective method called" ABC-MT-CMOS". It
controls the backgates to reduce the leakage current when the SRAM is not activated (sleep …

Leakage power is dominated by critical paths, and hence dynamic deactivation of fast
transistors can yield large savings. We introduce metrics for comparing fine-grain dynamic …

In high performance Systems-on-Chip, leakage power consumption has become
comparable to the dynamic component, and its relevance increases as technology scales …

Multi-threshold CMOS is an increasingly popular circuit technique that enables high
performance and low power operation, but requires sequential circuit structures that can …

Microprocessor performance has been improved by increasing the capacity of on-chip
caches. However, the performance gain comes at the price of static energy consumption due …

A novel technique for retaining data in flip-flops in power-down applications is presented. In
flip-flops data is stored in cross-coupled inverters. Cross-coupled inverters can hold their …

(57) ABSTRACT A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first MOS transistor having
one Source/drain electrode for receiving a power Supply Voltage and the other Source/drain …

The Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) technology provides a solution to the high
performance and low power design requirements of modern designs. While the low Vth …