Low-Power High-Speed Reduced-Clock-Swing Flip-Flops Based on Contention Reduction Techniques

摘要

Recently there is an increasing demand for mobile computing devices. Portable music players, multimedia mobile phone, and many other new gadgets are becoming more common in everyday life. All of these devices have many things in common, its dependency on limited battery power while required to be able to be used longer per battery recharge, its fairly limited computing power requirement (compared to conventional devices), is but a few. On the other hand, the rise of processor frequency is such that heat produced by a further rise would not be tolerable by the silicon. The afore mentioned specs dictates the needs for a specially low power circuit design, even by cutting some edges on the computing power/speed.