Design of implicit pulsed-dual edge triggering flip flop for low power and high speed clocking systems

Abstract

The flip-flops are considered as major contributors to the power dissipation of the clocking system, which is made up of the clock provision network and storage elements (latches, flip-flops). The power- and delay-efficient new implicit-pulsed dual-edge triggering flip-flop circuit (IP-DETFF) is proposed with two latching stages by employing an implicit-pulse triggering, dual-edge clocking and reducing the number of clocked loads. This leads to the reduction of power consumption due to clock allocation tree (pclk-tree) and reduces the delay time. The dual-edge clocking technique is incorporated into this proposed design without an increment of the number of transistors and minimizes the operating frequency as half. This methodology is also employed in this proposed design to construct new latching part of the flip-flop circuit. The performance of proposed flip-flop is analyzed by simulating the circuit at 0.12[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process technology. The simulation results show that the proposed design achieves power saving from 11.22% to 54.81%, improvement of speed from 67% to 71.50%, power-delay product (PDP) from 74.85% to 81.26 %, energy-delay product (EDP) from 87.86% to 92.4% and power-energy product (PEP) from 75.24% to 93.57% compared to the conventional flip-flops.