Ferroelectric-based functional pass-gate for fine-grain pipelined VLSI computation

Abstract

The state-transition scheme of remnant polarization in a ferroelectric capacitor performs storage and switching functions simultaneously with a functional pass-gate. As an example of fine-grain pipelined VLSI computation, a 250 MHz 54/spl times/54 b pipelined multiplier has 2.5 W estimated power dissipation in a 0.6 /spl mu/m ferroelectric/CMOS technology.