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100MHZ-2GHZ PULSE TRIGGERED FLIP-FLOPS IN 32NM TECHNOLOGY FOR LOW POWER AND HIGH PERFORMANCE DIGITAL CMOS CIRCUITS


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1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies., India
2 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies,, India
3 3Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia., India
     

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This study presents extensive work carried out on pulse triggered flip flops (P-FFs) for power consumption, area requirements and delay measurements. Six latest state-of-art P-FFs are used to determine these performance parameters. The flip flops are Conditional Pulse Enhancement P-FF (CPEPFF), Signal Feed-through P-FF (SFTPFF) Karimi’s P-FF (KPFF), Conditional Feed-through P-FF (CFTPFF), Dual Dynamic node hybrid FF (DDFF), and Dual-edge Implicit FF with an embedded Clock Gated Scheme (DIFF-CGS). Simulations are carried out at 32nm CMOS technology on T-SPICE at operating conditions of 500MHz clock frequency, temperature of 25°C with 50% data activity. Results showed that CFTPFF consumes the least average power with minimum reduction of 27.94% and maximum of 57.45%. Even at higher frequencies and varying data activities CFTPFF outperforms other FFs in power dissipation. DDFF is the fastest P-FF with minimum enhancements of 82.7% and maximum 94%. In terms of power delay product (PDP), the optimal PDP of DDFF is best among all the P-FFs whereas DIFF-CGS has the worst. The area overhead of KPFF and CFTPFF is better compared to the rest of P-FFs.

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Flip Flop, CMOS Digital Circuit, Low Power, High-Speed, Pulse Triggered
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Authors

Owais Ahmad Shah
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies., India
Geeta Nijhawan
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies,, India
Imran Ahmed Khan
3Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia., India

Abstract


This study presents extensive work carried out on pulse triggered flip flops (P-FFs) for power consumption, area requirements and delay measurements. Six latest state-of-art P-FFs are used to determine these performance parameters. The flip flops are Conditional Pulse Enhancement P-FF (CPEPFF), Signal Feed-through P-FF (SFTPFF) Karimi’s P-FF (KPFF), Conditional Feed-through P-FF (CFTPFF), Dual Dynamic node hybrid FF (DDFF), and Dual-edge Implicit FF with an embedded Clock Gated Scheme (DIFF-CGS). Simulations are carried out at 32nm CMOS technology on T-SPICE at operating conditions of 500MHz clock frequency, temperature of 25°C with 50% data activity. Results showed that CFTPFF consumes the least average power with minimum reduction of 27.94% and maximum of 57.45%. Even at higher frequencies and varying data activities CFTPFF outperforms other FFs in power dissipation. DDFF is the fastest P-FF with minimum enhancements of 82.7% and maximum 94%. In terms of power delay product (PDP), the optimal PDP of DDFF is best among all the P-FFs whereas DIFF-CGS has the worst. The area overhead of KPFF and CFTPFF is better compared to the rest of P-FFs.

Keywords


Flip Flop, CMOS Digital Circuit, Low Power, High-Speed, Pulse Triggered

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