As semiconductor technology goes into the deep submicron region, the static power caused by leakage current is no longer negligible. Gated-GND circuit technique switches SRAM cells into standby mode to reduce the static power. In this paper, we studied the detailed current scenario in a Gated-GND circuit structure. Based upon the analysis, we employed a more accurate way to estimate the efficie...

In this paper, we analyze the spectra and stability of a system consisting of a working unit and repair unit, in which the working unit consists of one main unit and one standby unit, while the standby unit may deteriorate in its standby mode. Firstly, we formulate the problem into a suitable Banach space. And then we carry out a detailed spectral analysis of the system operator. Based on the s...

An ultra-low-leakage power-rail ESD clamp circuit, composed of the SCR device and new ESD detection circuit, has been proposed with consideration of gate current to reduce the standby leakage current. By controlling the gate current of the devices in the ESD detection circuit under a specified bias condition, the whole power-rail ESD clamp circuit can achieve an ultra-low standby leakage curren...

Components in cold-standby state are usually assumed to be as good as new when they are activated. However, even in a standby environment, the components will suffer from performance degradation. This article presents a study of a redundancy allocation problem (RAP) for cold-standby systems with degrading components. The objective of the RAP is to determine an optimal design configuration of co...

This paper presents a fully synthesizable low power interconnect bus for millimeter-scale wireless sensor nodes. A segmented ring bus topology minimizes the required chip real estate with low input/output pad count for ultra-small form factors. By avoiding the conventional open drain-based solution, the bus can be fully synthesizable. Low power is achieved by obviating a need for local oscillat...

This paper addresses the issue of optimal redundancy allocation in hybrid structure large binary systems. Two aspects optimization are considered: (1) maximizing reliability system under cost constraint, and (2) obtaining necessary at a minimum cost. The complex considered this work is composed many subsystems with redundant structure. To cover most cases encountered practice, following kinds a...