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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ARS</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Advances in Radio Science</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ARS</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1684-9973</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus GmbH</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/ars-2-221-2004</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Improving the positive feedback adiabatic logic familiy</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fischer</surname>
<given-names>J.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Amirante</surname>
<given-names>E.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bargagli-Stoffi</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Schmitt-Landsiedel</surname>
<given-names>D.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Technical Electronics, Technical University Munich, Theresienstrasse 90, D-80290 Munich, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>8</issue>
<fpage>221</fpage>
<lpage>225</lpage>
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<p>Positive Feedback Adiabatic Logic (PFAL) shows
the lowest energy dissipation among adiabatic logic families
based on cross-coupled transistors, due to the reduction
of both adiabatic and non-adiabatic losses. The dissipation
primarily depends on the resistance of the charging
path, which consists of a single p-channel MOSFET during
the recovery phase. In this paper, a new logic family called
Improved PFAL (IPFAL) is proposed, where all n- and pchannel
devices are swapped so that the charge can be recovered
through an n-channel MOSFET. This allows to decrease
the resistance of the charging path up to a factor of
2, and it enables a significant reduction of the energy dissipation.
Simulations based on a 0.13µm CMOS process
confirm the improvements in terms of power consumption
over a large frequency range. However, the same simple design
rule, which enables in PFAL an additional reduction of
the dissipation by optimal transistor sizing, does not apply to
IPFAL. Therefore, the influence of several sources of dissipation
for a generic IPFAL gate is illustrated and discussed,
in order to lower the power consumption and achieve better
performance.</p>
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