Inverters

iRazor: Current-Based Error Detection and Correction Scheme for PVT Variation in 40-nm ARM Cortex-R4 Processor

This paper presents iRazor, a lightweight error detection and correction approach, to suppress the cycle time margin that is traditionally added to very large scale integration systems to tolerate process, voltage, and temperature variations. iRazor …

Reconfigurable self-timed regenerators for wide-range voltage scaled interconnect

A reconfigurable self-timed regenerator based global interconnect scheme enables graceful degradation of performance and power in wide range dynamic voltage/frequency scaled systems. A test chip demonstrates up to 40% and 25% better performance …

A reconfigurable sense amplifier with auto-zero calibration and pre-amplification in 28nm CMOS

This work presents an area-efficient and variation-tolerant small-signal differential sensing (VTS) scheme that modifies the conventional SA circuit to include: 1) a structure for on-the-fly, auto-zeroing offset compensation, 2) pre-amplification of …