This paper presents a new quasi-static single-phase energy recovery logic （QSSERL）, which unlike any other existing adiabatic logic family,uses a single sinusoidal supply-clock without additional timing control volta- ges. This not only ensures lower energy dissipation, but also simplifies the clock design, which would be otherwise more complicated due to the signal synchronization requirement. It is demonstrated that QSSERL circuits operate as fast as conventional two-phase energy recovery logic counterparts. Simulation with an 8bit logarithmic look- ahead adder （LLA） using static CMOS,clocked CMOS adiabatic logic （CAL,an existing typical single-phase ener- gy recovery logic）,and QSSERL,under 128 randomly generated input vectors,shows that the power consumption of the QSSERL adder is only 45% of that of the conventional static CMOS counterpart at 10MHz, and the QS- SERL adder achieves better energy efficiency than CAL when the input frequency finput is larger than 2MHz.
We present a new hybrid digital pulse-width modulator （DPWM） for digital DC-DC converters that employs a ring-oscillator/counter structure. Based on a temperature/process compensation technique and a novel digital controller, the proposed DPWM can not only offer temperature/process-independent pulse widths, but also operate at a much higher clock frequency than the existing delay-line/counter DPWM structure. Post-simulation results show that with our DPWM, the system clock frequency reaches 156.9MHz while the worst variation,in a temperature range of 0 to 100℃under all process corners,is only± 9.4%.
A new temperature compensation technique for ring-oscillator-based ADCs is proposed. This technique employs a novelcfixed-number-based algorithm and CTAT current biasing technology to compensate the temperature-dependent variations of the output, thus eliminating the need for digital calibrations. Simulation results prove that, with the proposed technique,the resolution in the temperature range of 0 to 100℃ can reach a 2mV quantization bin size with an input voltage span of 120mV at the sampling frequency of fs = 100kHz.
