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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Design and optimization of digital circuits for low power and security applications

Hassoune, Ilham 27 June 2006 (has links)
Since integration technology is approaching the nanoelectronics range, some practical limits are being reached. Leakage power is increasing more and more with the continuous scaling, and design of clock distribution systems needs to be reconsidered as it becomes difficult to deal with performance and power consumption specifications while keeping a correct synchronisation in modern multi-GHz systems. The ongoing technology trend will become difficult to maintain unless dedicated library cells, new logic styles and circuit methods are emerging to prevent the drawbacks of future nanoscale circuits. In this thesis we investigate a new class of dynamic differential logic family that features a self-timed operation and low output logic swing. The latter contributes to reduce dynamic power, while the self-timing scheme alleviates the drawbacks of synchronous circuits and systems. Furthermore, the dynamic and differential nature of LSCML class brings advantages in terms of reduction of the power consumption variation and thus gives LSCML an additional potential for implementation of secure encryption devices against attacks based on power analysis. We investigate dynamic and leakage power reduction at the cell level through the application of low-power low-voltage techniques to a new hybrid full adder structure. The 8b RCA circuit based on the ULPFA (ultra low power full adder) version of this full adder, achieves a total power and a leakage power, which are both reduced by 50% compared to the 8b RCA implemented with conventional static CMOS full adder, while featuring better power delay product.
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Design and optimization of digital circuits for low power and security applications

Hassoune, Ilham 27 June 2006 (has links)
Since integration technology is approaching the nanoelectronics range, some practical limits are being reached. Leakage power is increasing more and more with the continuous scaling, and design of clock distribution systems needs to be reconsidered as it becomes difficult to deal with performance and power consumption specifications while keeping a correct synchronisation in modern multi-GHz systems. The ongoing technology trend will become difficult to maintain unless dedicated library cells, new logic styles and circuit methods are emerging to prevent the drawbacks of future nanoscale circuits. In this thesis we investigate a new class of dynamic differential logic family that features a self-timed operation and low output logic swing. The latter contributes to reduce dynamic power, while the self-timing scheme alleviates the drawbacks of synchronous circuits and systems. Furthermore, the dynamic and differential nature of LSCML class brings advantages in terms of reduction of the power consumption variation and thus gives LSCML an additional potential for implementation of secure encryption devices against attacks based on power analysis. We investigate dynamic and leakage power reduction at the cell level through the application of low-power low-voltage techniques to a new hybrid full adder structure. The 8b RCA circuit based on the ULPFA (ultra low power full adder) version of this full adder, achieves a total power and a leakage power, which are both reduced by 50% compared to the 8b RCA implemented with conventional static CMOS full adder, while featuring better power delay product.
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A comparison of circuit implementations from a security perspective

Sundström, Timmy January 2005 (has links)
<p>In the late 90's research showed that all circuit implementations were susceptible to power analysis and that this analysis could be used to extract secret information. Further research to counteract this new threat by adding countermeasures or modifying the nderlaying algorithm only seemed to slow down the attack.</p><p>There were no objective analysis of how different circuit implementations leak information and by what magnitude.</p><p>This thesis will present such an objective comparison on five different logic styles. The comparison results are based on simulations performed on transistor level and show that it is possible to implement circuits in a more secure and easier way than what has been previously suggested.</p>
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A comparison of circuit implementations from a security perspective

Sundström, Timmy January 2005 (has links)
In the late 90's research showed that all circuit implementations were susceptible to power analysis and that this analysis could be used to extract secret information. Further research to counteract this new threat by adding countermeasures or modifying the nderlaying algorithm only seemed to slow down the attack. There were no objective analysis of how different circuit implementations leak information and by what magnitude. This thesis will present such an objective comparison on five different logic styles. The comparison results are based on simulations performed on transistor level and show that it is possible to implement circuits in a more secure and easier way than what has been previously suggested.
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Automatic generation and evaluation of transistor networks in different logic styles / Geração automática e avaliação de redes de transistores em diferentes estilos lógicos

Rosa Junior, Leomar Soares da January 2008 (has links)
O projeto e o desenvolvimento de circuitos integrados é um dos mais importantes e aquecidos segmentos da indústria eletrônica da atualidade. Neste cenário, ferramentas de automação têm possibilitado aos projetistas manipular uma elevada quantidade de transistores em circuitos cada vez mais complexos, diminuindo, assim, o tempo de projeto. Em especial, ferramentas de síntese lógica têm contribuído significativamente para reduzir o ciclo de desenvolvimento. Na metodologia de projeto full-custom, cada bloco funcional tem sua geração realizada de forma manual, desde a implementação das redes de transistores até a geração do leiaute. Entretanto, esta tarefa é extremamente custosa em tempo de projeto. Neste contexto, torna-se confortável ter a disposição algoritmos dedicados para derivar redes de transistores automaticamente. Diversos tipos de arranjos de transistores são encontrados na literatura. Estas diferentes redes de transistores apresentam diferentes comportamentos em termos de consumo de área, consumo de potência e velocidade. Desta forma, não apenas a geração automática de redes de transistores é importante, mas também técnicas automatizadas para avaliar e comparar estas distintas redes de chaves é de fundamental importância para guiar o projetista que deseja alcançar implementações de circuitos eficientes. Estas avaliações não precisam ser necessariamente processos custosos de caracterização elétrica. Elas podem ser realizadas através de estimativas capazes de fornecer informações acuradas sobre o comportamento das redes. Esta idéia pode ser utilizada por projetistas que desejam gerar e avaliar potenciais soluções em redes de transistores para alimentar fluxos standard-cell (utilizando bibliotecas de células), ou por aqueles que utilizam a abordagem de mapeamento tecnológico library-free (fazendo uso de geradores de células). Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta um gerador automático de redes de transistores capaz de fornecer diferentes tipos de redes em diversos estilos lógicos. Para comparar as redes geradas, algumas técnicas de estimativa são empregadas. Comparações são realizadas sobre conjuntos distintos de funções Booleanas, demonstrando as vantagens da utilização de lógicas alternativas em relação ao difundido padrão CMOS. / Currently, VLSI design has established a dominant role in the electronics industry. Automated tools have enabled designers to manipulate more transistors on a design project and shorten the design cycle. In particular, logic synthesis tools have contributed significantly to reduce the design cycle time. In full-custom designs, manual generation of transistor netlists for each functional block is performed, but this is an extremely time-consuming task. In this sense, it becomes comfortable to have efficient algorithms to derive transistor networks automatically. There are several kinds of transistor networks arrangements. These different networks present different behaviors in terms of area, delay and power consumption. Thus, not only automatic transistor networks generation is important, but also an automated technique to evaluate and to compare the distinct switch networks is fundamental to guide designers that need to achieve efficient circuit implementations. This evaluation not necessarily needs to be an expensive electrical characterization process. It can be obtained through estimation processes capable of delivering good information about the logic cells behavior. This idea is useful for those designers that desire to generate and to evaluate potential transistor network implementations to feed standard-cell flow designs (using cell libraries), or for those designers who target the use of library-free technology mapping concept (using automatic cells generators). In this context, this work presents an automated transistor network generator able to delivery different kinds of networks in several logic styles. In order to compare the obtained networks, some estimation techniques are employed. A comparison is done over a set of Boolean function benchmarks, showing the advantages of using alternative logic styles over the traditional Complementary Series-Parallel CMOS (CSP CMOS).
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Automatic generation and evaluation of transistor networks in different logic styles / Geração automática e avaliação de redes de transistores em diferentes estilos lógicos

Rosa Junior, Leomar Soares da January 2008 (has links)
O projeto e o desenvolvimento de circuitos integrados é um dos mais importantes e aquecidos segmentos da indústria eletrônica da atualidade. Neste cenário, ferramentas de automação têm possibilitado aos projetistas manipular uma elevada quantidade de transistores em circuitos cada vez mais complexos, diminuindo, assim, o tempo de projeto. Em especial, ferramentas de síntese lógica têm contribuído significativamente para reduzir o ciclo de desenvolvimento. Na metodologia de projeto full-custom, cada bloco funcional tem sua geração realizada de forma manual, desde a implementação das redes de transistores até a geração do leiaute. Entretanto, esta tarefa é extremamente custosa em tempo de projeto. Neste contexto, torna-se confortável ter a disposição algoritmos dedicados para derivar redes de transistores automaticamente. Diversos tipos de arranjos de transistores são encontrados na literatura. Estas diferentes redes de transistores apresentam diferentes comportamentos em termos de consumo de área, consumo de potência e velocidade. Desta forma, não apenas a geração automática de redes de transistores é importante, mas também técnicas automatizadas para avaliar e comparar estas distintas redes de chaves é de fundamental importância para guiar o projetista que deseja alcançar implementações de circuitos eficientes. Estas avaliações não precisam ser necessariamente processos custosos de caracterização elétrica. Elas podem ser realizadas através de estimativas capazes de fornecer informações acuradas sobre o comportamento das redes. Esta idéia pode ser utilizada por projetistas que desejam gerar e avaliar potenciais soluções em redes de transistores para alimentar fluxos standard-cell (utilizando bibliotecas de células), ou por aqueles que utilizam a abordagem de mapeamento tecnológico library-free (fazendo uso de geradores de células). Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta um gerador automático de redes de transistores capaz de fornecer diferentes tipos de redes em diversos estilos lógicos. Para comparar as redes geradas, algumas técnicas de estimativa são empregadas. Comparações são realizadas sobre conjuntos distintos de funções Booleanas, demonstrando as vantagens da utilização de lógicas alternativas em relação ao difundido padrão CMOS. / Currently, VLSI design has established a dominant role in the electronics industry. Automated tools have enabled designers to manipulate more transistors on a design project and shorten the design cycle. In particular, logic synthesis tools have contributed significantly to reduce the design cycle time. In full-custom designs, manual generation of transistor netlists for each functional block is performed, but this is an extremely time-consuming task. In this sense, it becomes comfortable to have efficient algorithms to derive transistor networks automatically. There are several kinds of transistor networks arrangements. These different networks present different behaviors in terms of area, delay and power consumption. Thus, not only automatic transistor networks generation is important, but also an automated technique to evaluate and to compare the distinct switch networks is fundamental to guide designers that need to achieve efficient circuit implementations. This evaluation not necessarily needs to be an expensive electrical characterization process. It can be obtained through estimation processes capable of delivering good information about the logic cells behavior. This idea is useful for those designers that desire to generate and to evaluate potential transistor network implementations to feed standard-cell flow designs (using cell libraries), or for those designers who target the use of library-free technology mapping concept (using automatic cells generators). In this context, this work presents an automated transistor network generator able to delivery different kinds of networks in several logic styles. In order to compare the obtained networks, some estimation techniques are employed. A comparison is done over a set of Boolean function benchmarks, showing the advantages of using alternative logic styles over the traditional Complementary Series-Parallel CMOS (CSP CMOS).
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Automatic generation and evaluation of transistor networks in different logic styles / Geração automática e avaliação de redes de transistores em diferentes estilos lógicos

Rosa Junior, Leomar Soares da January 2008 (has links)
O projeto e o desenvolvimento de circuitos integrados é um dos mais importantes e aquecidos segmentos da indústria eletrônica da atualidade. Neste cenário, ferramentas de automação têm possibilitado aos projetistas manipular uma elevada quantidade de transistores em circuitos cada vez mais complexos, diminuindo, assim, o tempo de projeto. Em especial, ferramentas de síntese lógica têm contribuído significativamente para reduzir o ciclo de desenvolvimento. Na metodologia de projeto full-custom, cada bloco funcional tem sua geração realizada de forma manual, desde a implementação das redes de transistores até a geração do leiaute. Entretanto, esta tarefa é extremamente custosa em tempo de projeto. Neste contexto, torna-se confortável ter a disposição algoritmos dedicados para derivar redes de transistores automaticamente. Diversos tipos de arranjos de transistores são encontrados na literatura. Estas diferentes redes de transistores apresentam diferentes comportamentos em termos de consumo de área, consumo de potência e velocidade. Desta forma, não apenas a geração automática de redes de transistores é importante, mas também técnicas automatizadas para avaliar e comparar estas distintas redes de chaves é de fundamental importância para guiar o projetista que deseja alcançar implementações de circuitos eficientes. Estas avaliações não precisam ser necessariamente processos custosos de caracterização elétrica. Elas podem ser realizadas através de estimativas capazes de fornecer informações acuradas sobre o comportamento das redes. Esta idéia pode ser utilizada por projetistas que desejam gerar e avaliar potenciais soluções em redes de transistores para alimentar fluxos standard-cell (utilizando bibliotecas de células), ou por aqueles que utilizam a abordagem de mapeamento tecnológico library-free (fazendo uso de geradores de células). Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta um gerador automático de redes de transistores capaz de fornecer diferentes tipos de redes em diversos estilos lógicos. Para comparar as redes geradas, algumas técnicas de estimativa são empregadas. Comparações são realizadas sobre conjuntos distintos de funções Booleanas, demonstrando as vantagens da utilização de lógicas alternativas em relação ao difundido padrão CMOS. / Currently, VLSI design has established a dominant role in the electronics industry. Automated tools have enabled designers to manipulate more transistors on a design project and shorten the design cycle. In particular, logic synthesis tools have contributed significantly to reduce the design cycle time. In full-custom designs, manual generation of transistor netlists for each functional block is performed, but this is an extremely time-consuming task. In this sense, it becomes comfortable to have efficient algorithms to derive transistor networks automatically. There are several kinds of transistor networks arrangements. These different networks present different behaviors in terms of area, delay and power consumption. Thus, not only automatic transistor networks generation is important, but also an automated technique to evaluate and to compare the distinct switch networks is fundamental to guide designers that need to achieve efficient circuit implementations. This evaluation not necessarily needs to be an expensive electrical characterization process. It can be obtained through estimation processes capable of delivering good information about the logic cells behavior. This idea is useful for those designers that desire to generate and to evaluate potential transistor network implementations to feed standard-cell flow designs (using cell libraries), or for those designers who target the use of library-free technology mapping concept (using automatic cells generators). In this context, this work presents an automated transistor network generator able to delivery different kinds of networks in several logic styles. In order to compare the obtained networks, some estimation techniques are employed. A comparison is done over a set of Boolean function benchmarks, showing the advantages of using alternative logic styles over the traditional Complementary Series-Parallel CMOS (CSP CMOS).

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