Paper Title
Design Of Dual Dynamic Flip-Flop With Featuring Efficient Embedded Logic For Low Power Cmos VLSI Circuits
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a new dual dynamic node hybrid flip-flop (DDFF) and a novel embedded
logic module (DDFF-ELM) based on DDFF. The proposed designs eliminate the large capacitance present in the
precharge node of several state-of-the-art designs by following a split dynamic node structure to separately drive the
output pull-up and pull-down transistors. The DDFF offers a power reduction of up to 37% and 30% compared to the
conventional flip-flops at 25% and 50% data activities, respectively. The aim of the DDFF-ELM is to reduce pipeline
overhead. It presents an area, power, and speed efficient method to incorporate complex logic functions into the flipflop.
The performance comparisons made in a 90 nm UMC process show a power reduction of 27% compared to the
Semi-dynamic flip-flop, with no degradation in speed performance. The leakage power and process-voltagetemperature
variations of various designs are studied in detail and are compared with the proposed designs. Also,
DDFF and DDFF-ELM are compared with other state-of-the-art designs by implementing a 4-b synchronous counter
and a 4-b Johnson up-down counter. The performance improvements indicate that the proposed designs are well
suited for modern high-performance designs where power dissipation and latching overhead are of major concern.
Index Terms—Embedded logic, flip-flops, high-speed, leakage power, low-power.