Abstract:
The present invention provides a flip flop circuit utilizing low power dissipation. The low power flip-flop circuit 300 includes a sensing circuit 304, a clock generating circuit 306, and an output sensing circuit. The flip flop is positive edge triggered and operates on an internally generated pseudo clock signal. The sensing circuit senses a change in an input signal and an output signal of the flip-flop output. The clock generating circuit generates a pseudo clock signal with a sharp rise and fall depending on an external clock signal. In very large scale integration (VLSI) applications the data activity is generally of the order of 2-10 % of clock activity, so, the switching current which flows between a power supply to a ground terminal, when the data is constant and clock is toggling leads to high power dissipation and electromagnetic emissions (which has now become a serious problem in VLSI digital designs).
Abstract:
The present invention provides a flip flop circuit (300) utilizing low power dissipation. The low power flip-flop circuit includes a flip-flop circuit (302), a clock generating circuit(306), and a sensing circuit (304). The flip flop is positive edge triggered and operates on an internally generated pseudo clock signal (CP). The sensing circuit senses a change in an input signal and an output signal of the flip-flop output. The clock generating circuit generates a pseudo clock signal (CP) with a sharp rise and fall depending on an external clock signal. In very large scale integration (VLSI) applications the data activity is generally of the order of 2-10 % of clock activity, so, the switching current which flows between a power supply to a ground terminal, when the data is constant and clock is toggling leads to high power dissipation and electromagnetic emissions (which has now become a serious problem in VLSI digital designs).
Abstract:
The present invention provides a flip flop circuit (300) utilizing low power dissipation. The low power flip-flop circuit includes a flip-flop circuit (302), a clock generating circuit(306), and a sensing circuit (304). The flip flop is positive edge triggered and operates on an internally generated pseudo clock signal (CP). The sensing circuit senses a change in an input signal and an output signal of the flip-flop output. The clock generating circuit generates a pseudo clock signal (CP) with a sharp rise and fall depending on an external clock signal. In very large scale integration (VLSI) applications the data activity is generally of the order of 2-10 % of clock activity, so, the switching current which flows between a power supply to a ground terminal, when the data is constant and clock is toggling leads to high power dissipation and electromagnetic emissions (which has now become a serious problem in VLSI digital designs).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a low consumption flip-flop circuit with data retention, comprising at least one flip-flop (10) and at least one retention cell (20; 200) connected to the output of the flip-flop and configured so that during normal operation of the flip-flop circuit, the retention cell transmits the data or logic state present on the output terminal of the flip-flop to its own output terminal (SO), while during low consumption operation of the flip-flop circuit a latch circuit (22; 220) of the retention cell suitable to memorise data or a logic state corresponding to the last data or logic state present on the output terminal of the flip-flop is activated.