A 0.8 V CMOS TSPC adiabatic DCVS logic circuit with the bootstrap technique for low-power VLSI

Abstract

The paper reports a novel 0.8 V CMOS true-single-phase-clocking (TSPC) adiabatic differential cascode voltage switch (DCVS) logic circuit with the bootstrap technique for low-power VLSI. Via the pass transistors and compensating transistors, the TSPC scheme has been obtained for easy clocking. Using the capacitance coupling from the bootstrap transistors, this 0.8 V TSPC adiabatic DCVS logic circuit with the bootstrap technique consumes 31% less energy as compared to the one using the clocked adiabatic latch (CAL) approach.