Application of Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic to Adaptive Beamforming Circuits for Ultra-Low Power

Abstract

With the decrease of transistor feature sizes into the ultra-deep submicron range, leakage power becomes an important design challenge for circuit designers. This paper examines the application of anasynchronous design paradigm named Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL) to adaptive beamforming circuits. MTNCL and synchronous designs were implemented using the IBM 130nm bulk CMOS process for power and area comparison. The MTNCL design showed substantial improvements in terms of active energy and leakage power compared to the equivalent synchronous design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 2016
Accession Number
AD1024704

Entities

People

  • Brent Bell
  • Di Jia
  • Erica Logal
  • Shiming Li
  • William Bouillon

Organizations

  • University of Arkansas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Circuits
  • Coding
  • Detection
  • Energy Consumption
  • Engineering
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Pipelines
  • Shift Registers
  • Signal Generation
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Throughput
  • Transistors
  • Wavefronts

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