This paper explores the use of transformer-coupled (TC) technique for the 2:1 MUX and the 1:2 DEMUX to serialize-and-deserialize (SerDes) high-speed data sequence. The widely used current-mode logic (CML) designs of latch and multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DEMUX) are replaced by the proposed TC approach to allow the more headroom and to lower the power consumption. Through the stacked transformer, the input clock pulls down the differential source voltage of the TC latch and the TC multiplexer core while alternating between the two-phase operations. With the enhanced drain-source voltage, the TC design attracts more drain current with less width-to-length ratio of NMOS than that of the CML counterpart. The source-offset voltage is decreased so that the supply voltage can be reduced. The lower supply voltage improves the power consumption and facilitates the integration with low voltage supply SerDes interface. The MUX and the DEMUX chips are fabricated in 65-nm standard CMOS process and operate at 0.7-V supply voltage. The chips are measured up to 40-Gb/s with sub-hundred milliwatts power consumption.
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A duty-cycle correction technique using a novel pulse width modification cell is demonstrated across a frequency range of 100 MHz–3.5 GHz. The technique works at frequencies where most digital techniques implemented in the same technology node fail. An alternative method of making time domain measurements such as duty cycle and rise/fall times from the frequency domain data is introduced. The data are obtained from the equipment that has significantly lower bandwidth than required for measurements in the time domain. An algorithm for the same has been developed and experimentally verified. The correction circuit is implemented in a 0.13-µm CMOS technology and occupies an area of 0.011 mm2. It corrects to a residual error of less than 1%. The extent of correction is limited by the technology at higher frequencies. The proposed architecture of this paper area and power consumption analysis using tanner tool.
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A new solution for an ultralow-voltage bulk driven (BD) asynchronous delta–sigma modulator is described in this paper. While implemented in a standard 0.18-µm CMOS process from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and supplied with VDD = 0.3 V, the circuit offers a 53.3-dB signal-to-noise and distortion ratio, which corresponds to 8.56-bit resolution. In addition, the total power consumption is 37 nW, the signal bandwidth is 62 Hz, and the resulting power efficiency is 0.79 pJ/conversion. The above-mentioned features have been achieved employing a highly linear transconductor and a hysteretic comparator based on nontailed BD differential pair.
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A low-phase-noise relaxation oscillator uses a digital compensation loop to reduce its temperature coefficient (TC). This relaxation oscillator is fabricated in the 0.18-µm CMOS process. The measured average oscillation frequency is 13.4 MHz. The whole oscillator consumes 157.8 µW under a 1.2-V supply. The measured average TCs of the oscillation frequency with and without compensation are 193.15 and 1098.7 ppm/◦C, respectively. The TC achieves an improvement of 5.7 times. The measured frequency variation is within ±2% from −20 ◦C to 100 ◦C by using the digital compensation loop. The measured phase noise at 100-kHz offset frequency is −104.82 dBc/Hz, and the measured figure of merit (FOM) is −154.4 dBc/Hz
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This paper proposes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) that achieves wide input range and fine time resolution at the same time. The proposed TDC utilizes pulse-shrinking (PS) scheme in the second stage for a fine resolution and two-step (TS) architecture for a wide range. The proposed PS TDC prevents an undesirable non-uniform shrinking rate issue in the conventional PS TDCs by utilizing a built-in offset pulse and an offset pulse width detection schemes. With several techniques, including a built-in coarse gain calibration mechanism, the proposed TS architecture overcomes a nonlinearity due to the signal propagation and gain mismatch between coarse and fine stages. The simulation results of the TDC implemented in a 0.18-µm standard CMOS technology demonstrate 2.0-ps resolution and 16-bit range that corresponds to ∼130-ns input time interval with 0.08-mm2 area. It operates at 3.3 MS/s with 18.0 mW from 1.8-V supply and achieves 1.44-ps single-shot precision. Index Terms— Built-in calibration, pulse shrinking (PS), time-to-digital conversion, two step (TS).
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A 2.5-V 8-bit low force and efficient Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital converter (SAR-ADC) utilizing a Principled Open Loop Comparator (POLC) and Switched Multi-Threshold Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (SMTCMOS) D-FF shift Register. In light of high proficiency and low force applications SAR-ADC is increasingly well known, yet it experience the ill effects of resolution and speed confinements. To defeat the above issue proposed a systematic methodology uses low force POLC based SAR-ADC is structured. Considering about the resolution, speed and compact design of 8- bit SAR-ADC, the proposed POLC strategy reasonably diminishes the propagation delay by 37% and decreases the force utilization by 62% appeared differently in relation to the standard system. A D-flip flop is planned to employ SMTCMOS procedure which has low force utilization and productively decline the leakage power. All the above circuits are simulated by using TANNER-EDA tool in 0.25μm CMOS technology produces 97% Efficiency.
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Power analysis (PA) attacks have become a serious threat to security systems by enabling secret data extraction through the analysis of the current consumed by the power supply of the system. Embedded memories, often implemented with six-transistor (6T) static random access memory (SRAM) cells, serve as a key component in many of these systems. However, conventional SRAM cells are prone to side-channel power analysis attacks due to the correlation between their current characteristics and written data. To provide resiliency to these types of attacks, we propose a security-oriented 7T SRAM cell, which incorporates an additional transistor to the original 6T SRAM implementation and a two-phase write operation, which significantly reduces the correlation between the stored data and the power consumption during write operations. The proposed 7T SRAM cell was implemented in a 28 nm technology and demonstrates over 1000× lower write energy standard deviation between write ‘1’ and ‘0’ operations compared to a conventional 6T SRAM. In addition, the proposed cell has a 39%–53% write energy reduction and a 19%–38% reduced write delay compared to other power analysis resistant SRAM cells.
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The latest video coding standard high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) provides 50% improvement in coding efficiency compared to H.264/AVC to meet the rising demands for video streaming, better video quality, and higher resolution. The deblocking filter (DF) and sample adaptive offset (SAO) play an important role in the HEVC encoder, and the SAO is newly adopted in HEVC. Due to the high throughput requirement in the video encoder, design challenges such as data dependence, external memory traffic, and on-chip memory area become even more critical. To solve these problems, we first propose an interlacing memory organization on the basis of quarter-LCU to resolve the data dependence between vertical and horizontal filtering of DF. The on-chip SRAM area is also reduced to about 25% on the basis of quarter-LCU scheme without throughput loss. We also propose a simplified bitrate estimation method of rate-distortion cost calculation to reduce the computational complexity in the mode decision of SAO. Our proposed hardware architecture of combined DF and SAO is designed for the HEVC intraencoder, and the proposed simplified bitrate estimation method of SAO can be applied to both intra- and intercoding. As a result, our design can support ultrahigh definition 7680 × 4320 at 40 f/s applications at merely 182 MHz working frequency. Total logic gate count is 103.3 K in 65 nm CMOS process.
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In this article, a new solution for an ultralow-voltage (ULV) ultralow-power (ULP) operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is presented. Thanks to the combination of a low-voltage bulk-driven nontailed differential stage with the multipath Miller zero compensation technique, a simple class AB power-efficient ULV structure has been obtained, which can operate from supply voltages less than the threshold voltages of the employed MOS transistors, while offering rail-to-rail input common-mode range at the same time. The proposed OTA was fabricated using the 180-nm CMOS process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and can operate from VDD ranging from 0.3 to 0.5 V. The 0.3-V version dissipates only 12.6 nW of power while showing a 64.7-dB voltage gain at 1-Hz, 2.96-kHz gain-bandwidth product, and a 4.15-V/ms average slew-rate at 30-pF load capacitance. The measured results agree well with simulations.
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There is an emerging need to design configurable accelerators for the high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications in different precisions. Thus, the floating-point (FP) processing element (PE), which is the key basic unit of the accelerators, is necessary to meet multiple-precision requirements with energy-efficient operations. However, the existing structures by using high-precision-split (HPS) and low-precision-combination (LPC) methods result in low utilization rate of the multiplication array and long multi term processing period, respectively. In this article, a configurable FP multiple-precision PE design is proposed with the LPC structure. Half precision, single precision, and double precision are supported. The 100% multiplier utilization rate of the multiplication array for all precisions is achieved with improved speed in the comparison and summation process. The proposed design is realized in a 28-nm process with 1.429-GHz clock frequency. Compared with the existing multiple-precision FP methods, the proposed structure achieves 63% and 88% areasaving performance for FP16 and FP32 operations, respectively. The 4× and 20× maximum throughput rates are obtained when compared with fixed FP32 and FP64 operations. Compared with the previous multiple-precision PEs, the proposed one achieves the best energy-efficiency performance with 975.13 GFLOPS/W.
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In this paper, a double-error-correcting and triple error-detecting (DEC-TED) Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) code decoder with high decoding efficiency and low power for error correction in emerging memories is presented. To increase the decoding efficiency, we propose an adaptive error correction technique for the DEC-TED BCH code that detects the number of errors in a codeword immediately after syndrome generation and applies a different error correction algorithm depending on the error conditions. With the adaptive error correction technique, the average decoding latency and power consumption are significantly reduced owing to the increased decoding efficiency. To further reduce the power consumption, an invalid-transition-inhibition technique is proposed to remove the invalid transitions caused by glitches of syndrome vectors in the error-finding block. Synthesis results with an industry-compatible 65-nm technology library show that the proposed decoders for the (79, 64, 6) BCH code take only 37%–48% average decoding latency and achieve more than 70% power reduction compared to the conventional fully parallel decoder under the 10−4–10−2 raw bit-error rate.
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As the technology is getting advanced continuously the problem for the security of data is also increasing. The hackers are equipped with new advanced tools and techniques to break any security system. Therefore people are getting more concern about data security. The data security is achieved by either software or hardware implementations. In this work Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) device is used for hardware implementation since these devices are less complex, more flexible and provide more efficiency. This work focuses on the hardware execution of one of the security algorithms that is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The AES algorithm is executed on Vivado 2014.2 ISE Design Suite and the results are observed on 28 nanometers (nm) Artix-7 FPGA. This work discusses the design implementation of the AES algorithm and the resources consumed in implementing the AES design on Artix-7 FPGA. The resources which are consumed are as follows- Slice Register (SR), Look-Up Tables (LUTs), Input/Output (I/O) and Global Buffer (BUFG).
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A floating-point fused dot-product unit is presented that performs single-precision floating-point multiplication and addition operations on two pairs of data in a time that is only 150% the time required for a conventional floating-point multiplication. When placed and routed in a 45nm process, the fused dot-product unit occupied about 70% of the area needed to implement a parallel dot-product unit using conventional floating-point adders and multipliers. The speed of the fused dot-product is 27% faster than the speed of the conventional parallel approach. The numerical result of the fused unit is more accurate because one rounding operation is needed versus at least three for other approaches.
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As a traditional digital platform, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is seldom used for analog applications. Since there is no way to fine tune the gate property or circuit structure, the performance of FPGA analog application is usually inferior to its counterparts based on full-custom or even cell-based design. Nevertheless, a high performance FPGA time-to-digital Converter (TDC) is proposed in this paper to expand the FPGA territory into high-end analog applications. The test time signal is sampled by a serious timing references generated by feeding the original clock into a tapped delay line. According to periodicity, the delays among those timing references are wrapped into a single reference period and the effective TDC resolution can be made much smaller than the clock period to compete even with the state-of the art full-custom TDCs in performance. After measurement, the effective resolution is as fine as 2.5 ps. The corresponding differential nonlinearity (DNL) is -1.90~1.66 LSB and the integral nonlinearity (INL) is -3.79~6.53 LSB only.
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In this paper, we propose a low-power high-speed pipeline multiply-accumulate (MAC) architecture. In a conventional MAC, carry propagations of additions (including additions in multiplications and additions in accumulations) often lead to large power consumption and large path delay. To resolve this problem, we integrate a part of additions into the pa rtial product reduction (PPR) process. In the proposed MAC architecture, the addition and accumulation of higher significance bits are not performed until the PPR process of the next multiplication. To correctly deal with the overflow in the PPR process, a small-size adder is designed to accumulate the total number of carries. Compared with previous works, experimental results show that the proposed MAC architecture can greatly reduce both power consumption and circuit area under the same timing constraint.
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True random number generators (TRNGs) are fundamentals in many important security applications. Though they exploit randomness sources that are typical of the analog domain, digital-based solutions are strongly required especially when they have to be implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based digital systems. This paper describes a novel methodology to easily design a TRNG on FPGA devices. It exploits the runtime capability of the Digital Clock Manager (DCM) hardware primitives to tune the phase shift between two clock signals. The presented auto-tuning strategy automatically sets the phase difference of two clock signals in order to force on one or more flip-flops (FFs) to enter the metastability region, used as a randomness source. Moreover, a novel use of the fast carry-chain hardware primitive is proposed to further increase the randomness of the generated bits. Finally, an effective on-chip post-processing scheme that does not reduce the TRNG throughput is described. The proposed TRNG architecture has been implemented on the Xilinx Zynq XC7Z020 System on Chip (SoC). It passed all the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-22 statistical tests with a maximum throughput of 300×106 bit per second. The latter is considerably higher than the throughput of other previously published DCMbased TRNGs.
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In a memory system, understanding how the host is stressing the memory is important to improve memory performance. Accordingly, the need for the analysis of memory command trace, which the memory controller sends to the dynamic random access memory, has increased. However, the size of this trace is very large; consequently, a high-throughput hardware (HW) accelerator that can efficiently compress these data in real time is required. This paper proposes a high throughput HW accelerator for lossless compression of the command trace. The proposed HW is designed in a pipeline structure to process Huffman tree generation, encoding, and stream merge. To avoid the HW cost increase owing to high throughput processing, a Huffman tree is efficiently implemented by utilizing static random access memory-based queues and bitmaps. In addition, variable length stream merge is performed at a very low cost by reducing the HW wire width using the mathematical properties of Huffman coding and processing the metadata and the Huffman codeword using FIFO separately. Furthermore, to improve the compression efficiency of the DDR4 memory command, the proposed design includes two preprocessing operations, the “don’t care bits override” and the “bits arrange,” which utilize the operating characteristics of DDR4 memory. The proposed compression architecture with such preprocessing operations achieves a high throughput of 8 GB/s with a compression ratio of 40.13% on average. Moreover, the total HW resource per throughput of the proposed architecture is superior to the previous implementations.
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In this brief, a high-throughput Huffman encoder VLSI architecture based on the Canonical Huffman method is proposed to improve the encoding throughput and decrease the encoding time required by the Huffman code word table construction process. We proposed parallel computing architectures for frequency-statistical sorting and code-size computational sorting. This architecture results in a process of building a tree and assigning symbols that can be completed by scanning the data only once. This solves the problem of the low efficiency of the traditional algorithm, which needs to scan the data twice. Consequently, in addition to the advantages of the high compression ratio inherited from the Canonical Huffman, the proposed architecture has overridden advantages for a high parallelism processing capacity. The experimental results showed that the proposed architecture decreased the encoding time by 26.30% compared to the available Huffman encoder using the standard algorithm when encoding 256 8-bit symbols. Furthermore, the VLSI architecture could further decrease the encoding time when encoding more 8-bit symbols. In particular, when encoding 212,642 8-bit symbols, the proposed VLSI architecture could reduce the encoding time by 87.40%. Thus, compared with the traditional Huffman encoders, this brief achieved the improvement of coding efficiency.
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A novel low-complexity multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detector tailored for single-carrier frequency division-multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems, suitable for efficient hardware implementations. The proposed detector starts with an initial estimate of the transmitted signal based on a minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector. Subsequently, it recognizes less reliable symbols for which more candidates in the constellation are browsed to improve the initial estimate. The proposed architecture of this paper analysis the logic size, area and power consumption using Xilinx 14.2.
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A novel type of highly efficient conditional feed through pulse-triggered flip-flop (P-FF) is proposed and demonstrated. The data-to-output (D-to-Q) delay in this circuit was highly optimized using pre discharging and conditional signal feed through schemes. Power consumption was also reduced using a shared pulse generator and an output feedback-controlled conditional keeper, which diminished the floating status of the internal node. The driving strength of this design was further enhanced by including an additional pull-down path at the output node. Various post layout simulation results applied to 16-nm Fin FET technology demonstrated a higher energy efficiency (at all input data toggle rates) for the proposed topology than comparable P-FF devices. Notably, the proposed model achieved a 62% D-to-Q delay reduction, compared to a transmission gate FF, outperforming the device by more than 66% in terms of power efficiency and 87% in energy efficiency (at a 50% input data toggle rate). Improvements were even more significant in comparison with other conventional P-FFs. These results suggest the proposed design to be a viable new option for high-efficiency sequential elements in high-speed applications.
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This brief presents a low-complexity I/Q (in-phase and quadrature components) imbalance calibration method for the transmitter using quadrature modulation. Impairments in analog quadrature modulator have a deleterious effect on the signal fidelity. Among the critical impairments, I/Q imbalance (gain and phase mismatches) deteriorates the residual sideband performance of the analog quadrature modulator degrading the error vector magnitude. Based on the theoretical mismatch analysis of the quadrature modulator, we propose a low-complexity I/Q imbalance extraction algorithm. After the parameter extraction, the transmitter is calibrated by imposing the counter imbalanced mismatch of the transmitter through the digital baseband. In comparison with existing I/Q imbalance calibration methods, the novelty of the proposed method lies in that: 1) only three spectrum measurements of the device-under-test are needed for extraction and calibration of gain and phase mismatches; 2) due to the blind nature of the calibration algorithm, the proposed approach can be readily applicable to an existing I/Q transmitter; 3) no extra hardware that degrades the calibration accuracy is required; and 4) due to the non-iterative nature, the proposed method is faster and computationally more efficient than previously published methods.
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For video applications in a special environment such as medical imaging, space exploration, and underwater exploration, the video captured by an image sensor is often deteriorated because of low lighting conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance the part of the image that is too dark to distinguish details while maintaining the remaining part with the same brightness. The retinex algorithm is widely used to restore naturalness of a video, especially exhibiting outstanding performance in the enhancement of a dark area. However, it demands large computational complexity because of its intricate structure, such as the Gaussian filter and exponentiation operations, and consequently, it is difficult to process in real time. This article presents a low-cost and high-throughput design of the retinex video enhancement algorithm. The hardware (HW) design is implemented using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and it supports a throughput of 60 frames/s for a 1920 × 1080 image with negligible latency. The proposed FPGA design minimizes HW resources while maintaining the quality and the performance by using a small line buffer instead of a frame buffer, by applying the concept of approximate computing for the complex Gaussian filter, and by designing a new and nontrivial exponentiation operation. The proposed design makes it possible to significantly reduce HW resources (up to 79.22% of total resources) compared to existing systems and is compatible with commercialized devices through the standard HDMI/DVI video ports.
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In this brief, a fast and very low power voltage level shifter (LS) is presented. By using a new regulated cross-coupled (RCC) pull-up network, the switching speed is boosted and the dynamic power consumption is highly reduced. The proposed (LS) has the ability to convert input signals with voltage levels much lower than the threshold voltage of a MOS device to higher nominal supply voltage levels. The presented LS occupies a small silicon area owing to its very low number of elements and is ultra-low-power, making it suitable for low-power applications such as implantable medical devices and wireless sensor networks. Results of the post-layout simulation in a standard 0.18-μm CMOS technology show that the proposed circuit can convert up input voltage levels as low as 80 mV. The power dissipation and propagation delay of the proposed level shifter for a low/high supply voltages of 0.4/1.8 V and input frequency of 1 MHz are 123.1 nW and 23.7 ns, respectively.
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A nanopower CMOS 4th-order lowpass filter suitable for biomedical applications is presented. The filter is formed by cascading two types of subthreshold current-reuse biquadratic cell. Each proposed cell is capable of neutralizing the bulk effect that induces the passband attenuation. The nearly 0-dB passband gain can thus be maintained, while the entire filter circuit remains compact and power-efficient. Designed for electrocardiogram detection as an example of application, the filter prototype has been fabricated in a 0.35 µm CMOS process occupying 269 µm × 383 µm chip area. Measurements verify that the filter can operate from a 1.5-V single supply and consumes 5.25 nW, while providing a cutoff frequency of 100 Hz and input-referred noise of 39.38 µVrms. The intermodulation-free dynamic range of 51.48 dB is obtained from a two-tone test of 50 and 60 Hz input frequencies. Compared with state-of-the-art nanopower lowpass filters using the most relevant and reasonable figure of merit, the proposed filter ranks the best.
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As the device dimension is shrinking day by day the conventional transistor based CMOS technology encounters serious hindrances due to the physical barriers of the technology such as ultra-thin gate oxides, short channel effects, leakage currents & excessive power dissipation at nano scale regimes. Quantum Dot Cellular Automata is an alternate challenging quantum phenomenon that provides a completely different computational platform to design digital logic circuits using quantum dots confined in the potential well to effectively process and transfer information at nano level as a competitor of traditional CMOS based technology. This paper has demonstrated the implementation of circuits like D, T and JK flip flops using a derived expression from SR flip-flop. The kink energy and energy dissipations has been calculated to determine the robustness of the designed flip-flops. The simulation results have been verified using QCA Designer simulation tool.
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In-memory computing using emerging technologies such as resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) addresses the ‘von Neumann bottleneck’ and strengthens the present research impetus to overcome the memory wall. While many methods have been recently proposed to implement Boolean logic in memory, the latency of arithmetic circuits (adders and consequently multipliers) implemented as a sequence of such Boolean operations increases greatly with bit-width. Existing in-memory multipliers require O(n2) cycles which is inefficient both in terms of latency and energy. In this work, we tackle this exorbitant latency by adopting Wallace Tree multiplier architecture and optimizing the addition operation in each phase of the Wallace Tree. Majority logic primitive was used for addition since it is better than NAND/NOR/IMPLY primitives. Furthermore, high degree of gate-level parallelism is employed at the array level by executing multiple majority gates in the columns of the array. In this manner, an in-memory multiplier of O(n.log(n)) latency is achieved which outperforms all reported in-memory multipliers. Furthermore, the proposed multiplier can be implemented in a regular transistor-accessed memory array without any major modifications to its peripheral circuitry and is also energy-efficient.
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The main aim of the Single image (SR) super-resolution is to generate (HR) high-resolution images from (LR) low-resolution images. This paper briefly presents a concept of real time super resolution method of FHD based image extended and scaling processor. The super resolution system includes three blocks of operations. The first is a low-frequency interpolation stage, where bicubic interpolation is used for reconstructing the low-frequency parts of HR images. The second stage generates high-frequency patches by choosing the highest related pre-trained regression function according to each HR low frequency patch. In the third stage, with the high-frequency information, the low-frequency image patches are enhanced and overlapped to construct the SR result. These operations for gaining a high-frequency result are applied to the Y-luminance channel only, while the high-resolution Cb and Cr channels are generated by bicubic interpolation. The proposed system generates the output image resolution of 1920 X 1080 (FHD) by the input of 800 X 800 image size. The proposed architecture performs an anchored neighborhood regression algorithm that generates a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image input using only numbers of line buffers. Finally, super resolution technique is implemented in VHDL and Synthesized in the XILINX VERTEX-5 FPGA and shown the comparison for power, area and delay reports.
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This paper explores a low standby power 10T (LP10T) SRAM cell with high read stability and write-ability (RSNM/WSNM/WM). The proposed LP10T SRAM cell uses a strong cross-coupled structure consisting standard inverter with a stacked transistor and Schmitt-trigger inverter with a double-length pull-up transistor. This along with the read path separated from true internal storage nodes eliminates the read-disturbance. Furthermore, it performs its write operation in pseudo differential form through write bit line and control signal with a write-assist technique. To estimate the proposed LP10T SRAM cell’s performance, it is compared with some state-of-the-art SRAM cells using HSPICE in 16-nm CMOS predictive technology model at 0.7 V supply voltage under harsh manufacturing process, voltage, and temperature variations. The proposed SRAM cell offers 4.65X/1.57X/1.46X improvement in RSNM/WSNM/WM and 4.40X/1.69X narrower spread in RSNM/WM compared to the conventional 6T SRAM cell. Furthermore, it shows 1.26X/1.08X/1.01X higher RSNM/WSNM/WM and 1.71X/1.25X tighter/wider spread in RSNM/WM compared to the best studied SRAM cells. The proposed SRAM cell indicates 74.48%/1.41% higher/lower read/write delay compared to the 6T SRAM cell. Moreover, it exhibits the third-(second-) best read (write) dynamic power, consuming 29.69% (26.87%) lower than the 6T SRAM cell. The leakage power is minimized by the proposed design, which is 37.35% and 12.08% lower than that of the 6T and best studied cells, respectively. Nonetheless, the proposed LP10T SRAM cell occupies 1.313X higher area compared to the 6T SRAM cell.
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One of the main motivations for using ternary logic systems is the amount of information per circuit line is higher as compared to the corresponding binary logic representation, thereby leading to more compact circuit realizations. This is particularly attractive for quantum computing as quarts are expensive resources and minimizing their number is one of the main objectives during synthesis. Therefore, ternary reversible logic synthesis has drawn significant attention among researchers. It deals with fundamental unit of information called quarts that can exist in one of the three states |0, |1 and |2. Hence, the aim of this paper is to bridge the knowledge gap for the beginners in this domain than searching the entire space. Therefore, the present work discusses the basic concepts of ternary reversible logic and ternary reversible gates. The detailed discussion of the various ternary reversible logic synthesis will enable the beginners in this domain to understand the ternary reversible logic in a better way.
List of the following materials will be included with the Downloaded Backup:This paper presents a robust energy/area-efficient receiver fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process. The receiver consists of eight data lanes plus one forwarded-clock lane supporting the hyper transport standard for high-density chip-to-chip links. The proposed all-digital clock and data recovery (ADCDR) circuit, which is well suited for today’s CMOS process scaling, enables the receiver to achieve low power and area consumption. The ADCDR can enter into open loop after lock-in to save power and avoid clock dithering phenomenon. Moreover, to compensate the open loop, a phase tracking procedure is proposed to enable the ADCDR to track the phase drift due to the voltage and temperature variations. Furthermore, the all-digital delay-locked loop circuit integrated in the ADCDR can generate accurate multiphase clocks with the proposed calibrated locking algorithm in the presence of process variations. The precise multiphase clocks are essential for the half-rate sampling and Alexander-type phase detecting. Measurement results show that the receiver can operate at a data rate of 6.4 Gbits/s with a bit error rate. The proposed architecture of this paper area and power consumption analysis using tanner tool.
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This brief presents a low-power and high-precision bandgap voltage and current reference (BGVCR) in one simple circuit for battery-powered applications. All the amplifiers have been eliminated in the proposed circuit. The voltage reference is derived from the bandgap topology, and the current reference is obtained by summing a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) current. Therefore, the temperature coefficient of the current reference can be optimized. Besides, a pseudo-cascode structure and a simple line sensitivity enhancement circuit are adopted to improve the current mirror accuracy and line sensitivity. The proposed circuit is fabricated in a 0.18-μm deep N-well CMOS process with an active area of 0.063 mm2. The measured VREF and IREF are 1.2 V and 51 nA, respectively. The VREF and IREF show measured average temperature coefficients of 32.7 ppm/℃ and 89 ppm/℃ at a temperature of -45 to 125 ℃ and standard deviations of 0.17 % and 1.15 %, respectively. In the supply voltage range of 2 to 5 V, the line sensitivities of voltage and current are 0.058%/V and 1.76%/V, respectively. The minimum supply voltage is 2 V with a total power consumption of 192 nW at room temperature.
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We present a novel generalization of quadrature oscillators (QVCO) which we call “arbitrary phase oscillator” or APO for short. In contrast to a QVCO which generates only quadrature phases, the APO is capable of continuously generating any desired phase at its output. The proposed structure employs a novel coupling mechanism to generate arbitrary phase shifts between two coupled oscillators without the need for an explicit phase shifter. A rigorous nonlinear dynamic analysis is presented to give a closed-form formula for the generated phase shifts, and the theory is verified by numerical simulation as well as measurement results of a prototype chip fabricated in 130-nm CMOS technology. The prototype APO has a frequency tuning range of 4.90–5.65 GHz and is continuously phase tunable from 0◦ to 360◦ across the entire frequency range. The APO structure can be used in designing novel coupled-oscillator-based phased arrays for 5G wireless communications.
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This brief presents a three-stage comparator and its modified version to improve the speed and reduce the kickback noise. Compared to the traditional two-stage comparators, the three-stage comparator in this work has an extra amplification stage, which enlarges the voltage gain and increases the speed. Unlike the traditional two-stage structure that uses pMOS input pair in the regeneration stage, the three-stage comparator makes it possible to use nMOS input pairs in both the regeneration stage and the amplification stage, further increasing the speed. Furthermore, in the proposed modified version of three-stage comparator, a CMOS input pair is adopted at the amplification stage. This greatly reduces the kickback noise by canceling out the nMOS kickback through the pMOS kickback. It also adds an extra signal path in the regeneration stage, which helps increase the speed further. For easy comparison, both the conventional two-stage and the proposed three-stage comparators are implemented in the same 130-nm CMOS process. Measured results show that the modified version of three-stage comparator improves the speed by 32%, and decreases the kickback noise by ten times. This improvement is not at the cost of increased input referred offset or noise.
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In this paper, we present a two-speed, radix-4, serial-parallel multiplier for accelerating applications such as digital filters, artificial neural networks, and other machine learning algorithms. Our multiplier is a variant of the serial–parallel (SP) modified radix-4 Booth multiplier that adds only the nonzero Booth encodings and skips over the zero operations, making the latency dependent on the multiplier value. Two sub circuits with different critical paths are utilized so that throughput and latency are improved for a subset of multiplier values. The multiplier is evaluated on an Intel Cyclone V field-programmable gate array against standard parallel–parallel and SP multipliers across four different process–voltage–temperature corners. We show that for bit widths of 32 and 64, our optimizations can result in a 1.42×–3.36× improvement over the standard parallel Booth multiplier in terms of area–time depending on the input set.
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During smart long-term monitoring of any biomedical signal in wireless body area networks, wearable sensor nodes generate and transmit a large amount of data, increasing transmission power consumption. In order to reduce data storage and power consumption, a lossless data compression technique for an electrocardiogram signal monitoring system is presented in this letter. For this, a hybrid lossless compression algorithm based on Run-length coding and Golomb–Rice coding is proposed to enhance the bit compressing rate. The lossless encoding scheme is implemented on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, achieving a compression ratio of 2.91. A VLSI-based architecture of the data compression algorithm is implemented in 90nm CMOS technology that consumes power of 18.78 µW at 100 MHz operating frequency and 1.2 V supply voltage, occupying an area of 0.0051 mm2.
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Low-precision arithmetic operations to accelerate deep-learning applications on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been studied extensively, because they offer the potential to save silicon area or increase throughput. However, these benefits come at the cost of a decrease in accuracy. In this article, we demonstrate that reconfigurable constant coefficient multipliers (RCCMs) offer a better alternative for saving the silicon area than utilizing low-precision arithmetic. RCCMs multiply input values by a restricted choice of coefficients using only adders, subtractors, bit shifts, and multiplexers (MUXes), meaning that they can be heavily optimized for FPGAs. We propose a family of RCCMs tailored to FPGA logic elements to ensure their efficient utilization. To minimize information loss from quantization, we then develop novel training techniques that map the possible coefficient representations of the RCCMs to neural network weight parameter distributions. This enables the usage of the RCCMs in hardware, while maintaining high accuracy. We demonstrate the benefits of these techniques using AlexNet, ResNet-18, and ResNet-50 networks. The resulting implementations achieve up to 50% resource savings over traditional 8-bit quantized networks, translating to significant speedups and power savings. Our RCCM with the lowest resource requirements exceeds 6-bit fixed point accuracy, while all other implementations with RCCMs achieve at least similar accuracy to an 8-bit uniformly quantized design, while achieving significant resource savings.
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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm plays an important role in a data security application. In general S-box module in AES will give maximum confusion and diffusion measures during AES encryption and cause significant path delay overhead. In most cases, either LUTs or embedded memories are used for S- box computations which are vulnerable to attacks that pose a serious risk to real-world applications. In this paper, implementation of the composite field arithmetic-based Sub-bytes and inverse Sub-bytes operations in AES is done. The proposed work includes an efficient multiple round AES cryptosystem with higher-order transformation and composite field s-box formulation with some possible inner stage pipelining schemes which can be used for throughput rate enhancement along with path delay optimization. Finally, input biometric-driven key generation schemes are used for formulating the cipher key dynamically, which provides a higher degree of security for the computing devices.
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In this brief an approach is proposed to achieve energy savings from reduced voltage operation. The solution detects timing-errors by integrating Algorithm Based Fault Tolerance (ABFT) into a digital architecture. The approach has been studied with a systolic array matrix multiplier operating at reduced voltages, detecting errors on-the-fly to avoid energy demanding memory round-trips. The analysis of the solution has been done using analog-digital co-simulation to extract the transient behavior under different voltages and clock frequencies. HSPICE simulations using 90nm CMOS transistor models, and experiments by reducing operation voltage of an FPGA device were carried out. HSPICE simulations, showed possibility of 10x increase in energy-efficiency by approaching near-threshold region.
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A low-complexity analog technique to suppress the local oscillator (LO) harmonics in software-defined radios is presented. Accurate mathematical analyses show that an effective attenuation of the LO harmonics is achieved by modulating the transconductance of the low-noise transconductance amplifier (LNTA) with a raised-cosine signal. This modulation is performed through the bias network of a cascode device with a negligible increase in the LNTA noise figure. The proposed technique results in a notch at the third harmonic and at least 36 dB of attenuation at the fifth and the seventh harmonics. Experimental results in 130-nm CMOS and post layout simulation results in 65-nm CMOS verify the proper functionality of the proposed technique and the accuracy of the proposed analyses
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Cryptography systems have become inseparable parts of almost every communication device. Among cryptography algorithms, public-key cryptography, and in particular elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), has become the most dominant protocol at this time. In ECC systems, polynomial multiplication is considered to be the most slow and area consuming operation. This article proposes a novel hardware architecture for efficient field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of Finite field multipliers for ECC. Proposed hardware was implemented on different FPGA devices for various operand sizes, and performance parameters were determined. Comparing to state-of-the art works, the proposed method resulted in a lower combinational delay and area–delay product indicating the efficiency of design.
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Today, reversible logic can be used for designing low-power CMOS circuits, optical data processing, DNA computations, biological researches, quantum circuits and nanotechnology. Sometimes using of reversible logic is inevitable such as build quantum computers. Reversible logic circuits structure is much more complicated than irreversible logic circuits. Multiplication operation is considered as one of the most important operations in the ALU unit. In this paper, we have proposed two 4×4 reversible unsigned multiplier circuits in which Wallace tree method is used to reduce the depth of circuits. In first design, the partial products circuit is designed using TG and FG gates so that TG is used to produce the partial products and FG for fan-out. In the second design, TG and PG gates are used to produce the partial products and no fan-out is required. Moreover, we have used PG gate and Feynman' block as reversible half-adder (HA) and full-adder (FA) in the summation network, respectively. In the first design, the main purpose is to decrease the depth of the circuit and increase the circuit speed. In the second design we would attempt to improve quantum parameters the number of garbage outputs, constant inputs and quantum cost. The evaluation results show that the first design, in terms of delay, is the fastest circuit. Also, the second design in terms of the number of constant inputs, garbage outputs and quantum cost is better than other designs.
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In this paper we describe an efficient implementation of an IEEE 754 single precision floating point multiplier targeted for Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA. VHDL is used to implement a technology-independent pipelined design. The multiplier implementation handles the overflow and underflow cases. Rounding is not implemented to give more precision when using the multiplier in a Multiply and Accumulate (MAC) unit. With latency of three clock cycles the design achieves 301 MFLOPs. The multiplier was verified against Xilinx floating point multiplier core.
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The modern real time applications related to image processing and etc., demand high performance discrete wavelet transform (DWT). This paper proposes the floating point multiply accumulate circuit (MAC) based 1D/2D-DWT, where the MAC is used to find the outputs of high/low pass FIR filters. The proposed technique is implemented with 45 nm CMOS technology and the results are compared with various existing techniques. The proposed 8 × 8-point floating point 2-levels 2D-DWT achieves 27.6% and 83.7% of reduction in total area and net power respectively as compared with existing DWT.
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In this work, two approaches to realize a look up table (LUT) based finite impulse response (FIR) filter using Residue Number System (RNS) are proposed. The proposed implementations take advantage of shift and add approach offered by the chosen module set. The two proposed filter architecture are compared with an earlier proposed version of reconfigurable RNS FIR filter. The filters are synthesized using Cadence RTL compiler in UMC 90 nm technology. The performance of the filters are compared in terms of Area (A), Power (P), and Delay (T). The results show that one of the proposed architecture offers significant improvement in terms of delay, while the second approach is well suited for applications that require minimal power and area. Both implementations offer advantage in area delay ???????? and power-delay-product ????????????. Proposed approaches are also verified functionally using Altera DSP Builder.
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This paper describes a bandwidth (BW)- and slew rate (SR)-enhanced class AB voltage follower (VF). A thorough small signal analysis of the proposed and a state-of-the-art AB-enhanced VF is presented to compare their performance. The proposed circuit has 50-MHz BW, 19.5-V/µs SR, and a BW figure of merit of 41.6 (MHz × pF/µW) for CL = 50 pF. It provides 13 times higher current efficiency and 15 times higher BW than the conventional VF with equal 60-µW static power dissipation. The experimental and simulation results of a fabricated test chip in the 130-nm CMOS technology validate the proposed circuit.
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High speed multimedia applications have paved way for a whole new area in high speed error-tolerant circuits with approximate computing. These applications deliver high performance at the cost of reduction in accuracy. Furthermore, such implementations reduce the complexity of the system architecture, delay and power consumption. This paper explores and proposes the design and analysis of two approximate compressors with reduced area, delay and power with comparable accuracy when compared with the existing architectures. The proposed designs are implemented using 45 nm CMOS technology and efficiency of the proposed designs have been extensively verified and projected on scales of area, delay, power, Power Delay Product (PDP), Error Rate (ER), Error Distance (ED), and Accurate Output Count (AOC). The proposed approximate 4 : 2 compressor shows 56.80% reduction in area, 57.20% reduction in power, and 73.30% reduction in delay compared to an accurate 4 : 2 compressor. The proposed compressors are utilised to implement 8 × 8 and 16 × 16 Dadda multipliers. These multipliers have comparable accuracy when compared with state-of-the-art approximate multipliers. The analysis is further extended to project the application of the proposed design in error resilient applications like image smoothing and multiplication.
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The approximate computing paradigm emerged as a key alternative for trading off accuracy and energy efficiency. Error-tolerant applications, such as multimedia and signal processing, can process the information with lower-than-standard accuracy at the circuit level while still fulfilling a good and acceptable service quality at the application level. The automatic detection of R-peaks in an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is the essential step preceding ECG processing and analysis. The Haar discrete wavelet transform (HDWT) is a low-complexity pre-processing filter suitable to detect ECG R-peaks in embedded systems like wearable devices, which are incredibly energy constrained. This work presents an approximate HDWT hardware architecture for ECG processing at very high energy efficiency. Our best-proposal employing pruning within the approximate HDWT hardware architecture requires just seven additions. The use of a truncation technique to improve energy efficiency is also investigated herein by observing the evolution of the signal-to-noise ratio and the ultimate impact in the ECG peak-detection application. This research finds that our HDWT approximate hardware architecture proposal accepts higher truncation levels than the original HDWT. In summary: Our results show about 9 times energy reduction when combining our HDWT matrix approximation proposal with the pruning and the highest acceptable level of truncation while still maintaining the R-peak detection performance accuracy of 99.68% on average.
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Approximate computing is a promising technique to elevate the performance of digital circuits at the cost of reduced accuracy in numerous error-resilient applications. Multipliers play a key role in many of these applications. In this brief, we propose a truncation based Booth multiplier with a compensation circuit generated by selective modifications in k-map to circumvent the carry appearing from the truncated part. By judicious mapping, hardware pruning and output error reduction is achieved simultaneously. In the quest of power and accuracy trade-off, Truncated and Approximate Carry based Booth Multipliers (TACBM) are proposed with a range of designs based on truncation factor w. When compared with the state-of-the-art multipliers, TACBM outperforms in terms of accuracy and Area Power savings. TACBM (w = 10) provides with 0.02% MRED and 23% reduction in Area-Power product compared to exact Booth multiplier. The multipliers are evaluated using image blending and Multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network and a high value of accuracy (95.63%) for MLP is achieved.
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Here, the critical path of ripple carry adder (RCA)-based binary tree adder (BTA) is analyzed to find the possibilities for delay minimization. Based on the findings of the analysis, the new logic formulation and the corresponding design of RCA are proposed for the BTA. The comparison result shows that the proposed RCA design offers better efficiency in terms of area, delay and energy than the existing RCA. Using this RCA design, the BTA structure is proposed. The synthesis result reveals that the proposed 32-operand BTA provides the saving of 22.5% in area–delay product and 28.7% in energy–delay product over the recent Wallace tree adder which is the best among available multi-operand adders. The authors have also applied the proposed BTA in the recent multiplier designs to evaluate its performance. The synthesis result shows that the performance of multiplier designs improved significantly due to the use of proposed BTA. Therefore, the proposed BTA design can be a better choice to develop the area, delay and energy efficient digital systems for signal and image processing applications.
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This paper proposes an area-efficient bidirectional shift-register using bidirectional pulsed-latches. The proposed bidirectional shift-register reduces the area and power consumption by replacing master-slave flip-flops and 2-to-1 multiplexers with the proposed bidirectional pulsed-latches and non-overlap delayed pulsed clock signals, and by using sub shift-registers and extra temporary storage latches. A 256-bit bidirectional shift-register was fabricated using a 65nm CMOS process. Its area was 1,943μm2 and its power consumption is 200μW at a 100MHz clock frequency with VDD=1.2V. It reduces area by 39.2% and power consumption by 19.4% compared to the conventional bidirectional shift-register, length in most cases.
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