The 3-2, 4-2 and 5-2 compressors are the basic components in many applications, in particular partial product summation in multipliers. In this paper novel architectures and desig...
Sreehari Veeramachaneni, Kirthi M. Krishna, Lingam...
This paper presents a two-stage CMOS differential voltage-controlled ring oscillator (VCO). The VCO is intended to operate as a frequency synthesizer in a PLL to generate local os...
Luciano Severino de Paula, Eric E. Fabris, Sergio ...
Today's high-performance single-chip CMOS microprocessors are the most complex and challenging chip designs ever implemented. To stay on the leading edge, Digital's micro...
Extreme technology integration in the sub-micron regime comes with a rapid rise in heat dissipation and power density for modern processors. Dynamic voltage scaling is a widely us...
Amin Ansari, Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Scott ...
This paper presents a diagonal routing method which is applied to an actual microprocessor prototype chip. While including the layout functions for the conventional Manhattan rout...