An Asymptotically Zero Power Charge-Recycling Bus Architecture for Battery-Operated Ultrahigh Data Rate ULSI's(Special Issue on the 1994 VLSI Circuits Symposium)

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An asymptotically zero power charge recycling bus (CRB) architecture, featuring virtual stacking of the individual bus-capacitance into a series configuration between supply voltage and ground, has been proposed. This CRB architecture makes it possible to reduce not only each bus-swing but also a total equivalent bus-capacitance of the ultramultibit buses running in parallel. The voltage swing of each bus is given by the recycled charge-supplying from the upper adjacent bus capacitance, instead of the power line. The dramatical power reduction was verified by the simulated and measured data. According to these data, the ultrahigh data rate of 25.6Gb/s can be achieved while maintaining the power dissipation to be less than 100mW, which corresponds to less than 10% that of the previously reported 0.9V suppressed bus-swing scheme, at V_<cc>=3.6V for the bus width of 512b with the bus-capacitance of 14pF per bit operating at 50MHz.
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1995-06-25