A Power Efficient Fully Adiabatic Logic Circuit Design Approach: Application to Inverter and 8421 to Excess-3 Code Converter

Abstract Decreasing power consumption is the leading challenge for very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) designers. This paper introduces an innovative prototype for a power-efficient standard or a fully-adiabatic binary-coded-decimal (BCD) 8421 to Excess-3 (XS-3) code converter. The proposed design is compared with traditional complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) as well as two popular fully adiabatic logic families: adiabatic dynamic CMOS logic (ADCL) and two phase clocked adiabatic static CMOS logic (2PASCL). This investigation was conducted at frequencies ranging from 100 to 900 MHz. The circuit employs 0.3µm CMOS technology, with channel length and width set at 0.3µm and 0.75µm, respectively. The power savings for the proposed logic at 500 MHz when compared to standard CMOS logic, ADCL, and 2PASCL are 54.54%, 28.57%, and 16.67%, respectively