Research Article

Novel Low Complexity Pulse-Triggered Flip-Flop for Wireless Baseband Applications

Table 1

Features summarized of flip-flop designs.

Pulse-triggered flip-flop DesignsDesign [6]Proposed design

Edge triggering modeDoubleSingleDouble
Number of transistors2121 + 2 (Inverter)
Layout area (um2) 249.21271.09
Setup time (pS)−216−225−220
Hold time (pS)707973
Data-to-Q (pS)157157158
PDPDQ (fJ)20.8121.5319.08