Research Article

DPFFs: Direct Path Flip-Flops for Process-Resilient Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling

Table 2

Delay sensitivity over variation (measured).

Voltage [V]Clock-to-Q rise/fall delay [ns]
MTGFFC2FFC2DPFFTGDPFF

1.150.185/0.1740.172/0.16920.136/0.1300.142/0.139
1.100.208/0.1970.198/0.19110.155/0.1490.165/0.162
1.050.237/0.2270.229/0.21990.179/0.1740.195/0.191
1.000.279/0.2650.262/0.25800.210/0.2080.236/0.229
0.950.331/0.3170.318/0.30180.250/0.2400.288/0.281
0.900.411/0.3930.392/0.38250.316/0.3220.365/0.358
0.850.525/0.5140.532/0.50940.417/0.4310.482/0.479
0.800.726/0.7160.746/0.70580.658/0.6740.671/0.681
0.751.091/1.0861.126/1.09610.962/1.0110.978/1.025
0.701.916/1.8641.975/1.84291.674/1.7041.649/1.711
0.653.543/3.4483.657/3.40092.954/2.8072.905/2.853

Ratio19.1/19.821.2/20.121.7/21.520.4/20.5

Test condition: SS/25°C.
Ratio (%) = delay at 0.65 V/delay at 1.15 V.