Reduced-power electronic circuits with wide-band energy recovery using non-interfering topologies

A method of operation of a digital driver, the method comprising:

• series connecting a first terminal of an inductive component to a pulldown switch and a pullup switch of an inverter with an automated digital auto place route design tool;
• series connecting a second terminal of the inductive component to a lower voltage bias of the inverter;
• and
• configuring the inductive component to enable the digital driver to operate in a resonant mode and reuse electrical energy at a load capacitance without interfering with a signal path of the digital driver due to the inductive component being electrically coupled to the signal path periodically, wherein the inductive component provides for lower energy consumption by resonating with unwanted parasitic capacitance of a load capacitance, wherein the inductive component and the load capacitance (LC) form a series resonant frequency that is significantly greater than a clock frequency of the plurality of resonant clock drivers, so that output clock signal paths are not interfered with and so that effects on skew are minimized.

A series resonance configuration for clock signal energy recovery with a functioning bias circuit comprising:

• a clock input;
• a buffer to receive the clock input;
• a clock input inductor to receive output from the buffer;
• an inductor to resonant with an undesired load capacitance;
• and
• at least one storage capacitor, wherein during operation the clock input charges the at least one storage capacitor to develop a predetermined DC bias voltage and the clock input inductor is about 5 to 500 times a value of the resonating inductor.