Electronic Design

Layout-Dependent Modeling Boosts CMOS Gate Density

A layout-dependent circuit-design model from Toshiba helps boost gate density and improve cost-performance in next-generation 45-nm CMOS technology. More specifically, 45-nm CMOS gate density can be 2 ...
EE Herald

Advanced VLSI design: Use of qubits in logic circuit design

One of the most promising nanotechnologies which can replace the present transistor based CMOS technology is the Qubit (Quantum-Dot) Cellular Automata. The major advantages of this technology are ...
EDN

Spare cell leakage minimization in physical design, part 1 of 2

Leakage in IC designs constitutes a significant amount of power dissipation because CMOS gates are not ideal switches. The leakage in CMOS gates varies significantly for different combinations of ...
TechRepublic

Intel’s 45nm CMOS Technology Performance Parameters in VLSI Design

The trend of CMOS technology improvement continues to be driven by the need to integrate more functions within a given silicon area. In this paper, the authors describe Intel’s 45nm technology ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
Design-Reuse

Efficient logic optimization utilizing complementary behavior of CMOS gates

Any typical digital design style with CMOS uses complementary pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions implementation. Naturally, CMOS always ought to provide INVERTED outputs like ...
TechRepublic

Low Power VLSI CMOS Design by DCG Technique

The demand for power-sensitive design has grown significantly in recent years due to tremendous growth in portable applications. Consequently, the need for power efficient design techniques has grown ...