Adiabatic charging register circuit
AssigneeNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
InventorsShunji Nakata, Yuuichi Kado
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Abstract
An adiabatic charging register circuit comprising a plurality of n-channel MOSFET's and a plurality of p-channel MOSFET's, is operated by a clock signal which has a gradually rising and a gradually falling waveform generated by using a charge recycle power source in which charge supplied to a load is at least partially collected to said charge recycle power source, and following inequality is satisfied; |VTN|+|VTP|≧VDD where VTN is threshold of an n-channel MOSFET, VTP is threshold of a p-channel MOSFET, and VDD is output voltage of said charge recycle power source.
Claims3
A CMOS register circuit having a plurality of n-channel MOSFET transistors and a plurality of p-channel MOSFET transistors, accepting an input data, and a clock signal, and providing an output data, said clock signal not being a conventional CMOS signal and instead being a charge recycled clock signal having a stepwise waveform from a switched capacitor regenerator in which power supplied to a load is at least partially collected to said switched capacitor regenerator, and
- the following inequality is satisfied for getting rid of short circuit current:
- |VTN|+|VTP|≧VDD
- where VTN is a threshold of said n-channel MOSFET transistor, VTP is a threshold of said p-channel MOSFET, and VDD is an output voltage of said switched capacitor regenerator,
- wherein said register circuit comprises a pair of D-latch circuits with an input of a second D-latch circuit coupled with an output of a first D-latch circuit, a first D-latch circuit accepts a first stepwise waveform clock signal, and a second D-latch circuit accepts a second stepwise waveform clock signal which is different by 180° phase of the first power clock signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.