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Low Power Dynamic Cmos Inverter And Sram Cell Design Using Lector And Lector-B Technique


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1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, India
2 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
3 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, India
     

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At the current deep submicron and nanometer level, the leakage power is becoming the major contributor to overall power consumption in modern VLSI circuits. This research paper presents a novel approach to reducing leakage power by inserting two leakage transistors in the middle of pull-down and pull-up paths. Out of these two leakage transistors, one is the PMOS transistor, and another one is the NMOS transistor. This research work presents a dynamic CMOS inverter and 6T SRAM cell with and without transmission gate (TG) to reduce leakage power using the LECTOR and LECTOR-B techniques. The Cadence Virtuoso simulation tool is used to presents the results in terms of static power. Using the 45-nm technology node, the performance in terms of static power is analyzed. It is observed that using LECTOR and LECTOR-B techniques, the overall reduction in static power is 26% and 20%, respectively, compared to the conventional design for SRAM cell. Similar improvements are also noted for dynamic CMOS inverter and TG SRAM cell.

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Dynamic CMOS Inverter, SRAM Cell, Leakage Power, LECTOR, LECTOR-B Technique
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Authors

Vivek Harshey
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, India
Pankaj Kumar Das
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Shivani Sharma
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, India

Abstract


At the current deep submicron and nanometer level, the leakage power is becoming the major contributor to overall power consumption in modern VLSI circuits. This research paper presents a novel approach to reducing leakage power by inserting two leakage transistors in the middle of pull-down and pull-up paths. Out of these two leakage transistors, one is the PMOS transistor, and another one is the NMOS transistor. This research work presents a dynamic CMOS inverter and 6T SRAM cell with and without transmission gate (TG) to reduce leakage power using the LECTOR and LECTOR-B techniques. The Cadence Virtuoso simulation tool is used to presents the results in terms of static power. Using the 45-nm technology node, the performance in terms of static power is analyzed. It is observed that using LECTOR and LECTOR-B techniques, the overall reduction in static power is 26% and 20%, respectively, compared to the conventional design for SRAM cell. Similar improvements are also noted for dynamic CMOS inverter and TG SRAM cell.

Keywords


Dynamic CMOS Inverter, SRAM Cell, Leakage Power, LECTOR, LECTOR-B Technique

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