Low-power and highly reliable logic gates transistor-level optimizations

Mawahib Hussein Sulieman, Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim

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    Abstract

    Power dissipation and reliability are two major challenges when designing gates and circuits using nanoscale devices. This paper proposes a novel approach for the design of CMOS logic gates which aims to simultaneously decrease their power consumption and their probabilities of failure. This new sizing method was evaluated on CMOS inverters and NOR-2 gates at three technology nodes: 16nm, 22nm, and 32nm. The new inverters and NOR-2 were compared to the classic gates. The results show that the new gates have significantly lower power and higher reliability when compared to classic CMOS gates. The results also suggest that the advantages of the new design method are enhanced at smaller feature sizes: at 16nm the new gates outperform the classic ones in reliability, power, and PDP.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010
    Pages254-257
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010 - Ilsan, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: Aug 17 2010Aug 20 2010

    Publication series

    Name2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010

    Other

    Other2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityIlsan, Gyeonggi-Do
    Period8/17/108/20/10

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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