Variable Input Delay CMOS Logic Design for Low Dynamic Power Circuits

A gate that offers different delays for different input-output paths through it, is known as a variable input delay (VID) gate. The upper bound on this differential delay capability is specified by the parameter “ub”. These gates can be used to minimize the active power of a digital CMOS circuit by a path balancing and glitch filtering techniques discussed in recent publications. In this paper, we describe transistor sizing methods for three types of VID gates that satisfy given delay requirements. The three ways to obtain the differential delays are capacitance manipulation, nMOS transistor insertion, and CMOS transmission gate insertion. We also describe techniques for calculating the ub of each VID gate type. Finally, we outline an algorithm for quick determination of the transistor sizes for a gate for a given load capacitance.