Power reduction using Unified techniques in Switch-tail Ring counter for sequential circuits

Abstract

The diminution of power dissipation has recently become a paramount concern in contemporary VLSI design. Owing to the shrinking chip size and the gradual development of several micro-electronic reliabilities, low-power (LP) system design has become the utmost priority. Hence, this paper proposes an effective power reduction method that combines clock gating (CG) and a multi-bit flip flop (MBFF) approach. Initially, the CG and MBFF schemes were implemented separately in two standard Johnson counters, one involving a true single-phase clock (TSPC) LP D flip flop (DFF) with five transistors and the other involving a standard DFF with 32 transistors. Furthermore, a combined CG-MBFF scheme is proposed and implemented in 4-bit and 16-bit Johnson counters to illustrate the superiority of the proposed CG-MBFF scheme in terms of power diminution over the CG and MBFF methods when implemented separately. Additionally, an LP application employing a 4-bit Johnson counter was implemented with and without the proposed scheme.