Research Article

Break-before-Make CMOS Inverter for Power-Efficient Delay Implementation

Table 2

Charge consumption results for the standard and the BBM based leading-edge pulse generator depicted in Figure 13 measured for one input impulse. The columns denoted by the percent sign represent the percentage of the standard realization’s consumption.

Standard BBM based
Number of inv. Width [ps] Total [fAs] Delay [fAs] Total [fAs] [%] Delay [fAs] [%]

3 200 171 56 143* 17*
5 330 210 93 142 68 16 17
7 450 247 130 147 60 16 12
9 570 284 167 153 54 16 10
11 690 321 204 161 50 17 8

Pulse width target was not achieved.