Unit 1
Unit 1
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CMOS Inverter
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CMOS Inverter: Voltage-transfer characteristics
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Sources of power dissipation in CMOS
There are two types of power dissipation in CMOS circuits:
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Sources of power dissipation in CMOS
The most significant source of dynamic power dissipation in
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Charging and Discharging Capacitance
Figure 1.1 depicts the equivalent
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Charging and Discharging Capacitance
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Charging and Discharging Capacitance
The result is independent of the charging and discharging circuitry
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Charging and Discharging Capacitance
Total power summed over each capacitance Ci in a circuit
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
Figure 1.2 shows a simple CMOS inverter operating at Vdd with the
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
From the first order analysis of the MOS transistor model, the time
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
The current is zero when the input signal is below Vtn
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
The shape of the short-circuit current curve is dependent on several
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
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Short-circuit Current in CMOS Circuit
Despite the difficulties in expressing the short-circuit current and energy, they can
be computed quite accurately using circuit simulators such as SPICE.
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
Short-circuit current exhibits some characteristic with
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
Consider the case when the input voltage is falling and the output
voltage is rising.
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
From the above observation, one might question
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
A major contribution of capacitance is the input capacitance of the
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Output Load
To understand the effects of increasing output capacitance on short-
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Input Signal Slope
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Short-circuit Current Variation with Input Signal Slope
To improve power efficiency of a CMOS circuit, we should use
while the sharp signal slope reduces power dissipation of the signal
receiving gate, the transistor sizes of the signal driving gate
have to be increased to sustain the steep slope.
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Glitch Power Dissipation
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Glitch Power Dissipation
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CMOS Leakage Current
In circuits that use MOS transistors, there are two major sources of
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CMOS Leakage Current - Reverse Biased PN-junction
Leakage current occurs when the source or drain of an N-
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CMOS Leakage Current - Reverse Biased PN-junction
The magnitude of the current depends on the temperature,
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CMOS Leakage Current - Reverse Biased PN-junction
Generally, the leakage current is not a problem for most chips and
there is very little one can do to reduce this current in a large scale
digital design.
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CMOS Leakage Current - Subthreshold Channel Leakage
The second source of leakage current is the subthreshold
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CMOS Leakage Current - Subthreshold Channel Leakage
This current is known as the subthreshold leakage because it occurs
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CMOS Leakage Current - Subthreshold Channel Leakage
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Dynamic Power
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Dynamic Power (Switching Power)
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Dynamic Power Cont.
VDD
TfswCVDD VDD
T iDD(t)
CVDD 2 f sw
C
fsw
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Activity Factor
Dynamic power:
Pdynamic aCVDD f 2
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Dynamic Power Reduction
Try to minimize:
Activity factor
Capacitance
Supply voltage
Frequency
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Short Circuit Power Dissipation
Short circuit current occurs during signal transitions when both the
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Glitch Power Dissipation
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Static Power
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Static Power Consumption
Vd d
CL
Vin =5V
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Power Dissipation Sources
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Low Power Design
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Conclusion
Power dissipation is unavoidable especially as technology scales down
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