Fbb Cmos Tapered Buffer With Optimal Vth Selection

Harpreet Kaur; Ajaypal Singh; Lipika Gupta

doi:10.15415/jotitt.2014.22007

Authors

Harpreet Kaur Department of Electronics and Communication, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh-125001, India
Ajaypal Singh Department of Electronics and Communication, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh-125001, India
Lipika Gupta Department of Electronics and Communication, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh-125001, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15415/jotitt.2014.22007

Keywords:

Tapering factor, CMOS inverter, PDP, RBB, Average power, Threshold voltage

Abstract

This paper represents fixed body biased CMOS Tapered Buffer which is designed to minimize the PDP (Power Delay Product) of the circuit. CMOS Tapered Buffers are often used for driving large capacitive load at high speed. Since there are tradeoffs between performance parameters of Buffer for minimizing its PDP value and due to technology constraints on the threshold voltage of MOS; one can vary the Vth up to certain limit while keeping the VDD constant. The proposed work is helpful in designing power efficient CMOS Tapered Buffer. This is found that in proposed Buffer when Vth value for the first stage of inverter is taken between the range of (0.2V_DD - 0.4 V_DD), its performance gets improved in terms of power dissipation. This analysis is verified by simulating the 2-stage Tapered buffer using standard 180nm CMOS technology in Cadence environment. Analysis performed on the schematic shows that FBB (Fixed Body Bias) Tapered Buffer reduces the average power dissipation across capacitive load by 77% and static power has been reduced to 18.3% at very less penalty in delay. Hence the proposed approach is suitable in the design of low power buffer for increasing the current capability of logic gate at optimal speed.

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