Efficient pulsed-latch implementation for multiport register files: work-in-progress

Abstract

In this paper, register file design using pulsed latches is presented. Having some advantages in performance, area and power, pulsed latches represent an attractive implementation of register files. In addition, a proposed multiport register file architecture is introduced using single physical read/write ports to virtualize additional ports for read and write. The initial results show huge savings in area and power in comparison to the traditional architectures.