Cell Characteriation

A novel ultra-low-voltage (ULV) Dual-EdgeTriggered (DET) flip-flop based on the True-Single-PhaseClocking (TSPC) scheme is presented in this paper. Unlike Single-Edge-Triggering (SET), Dual-Edge-Triggering has the advantage of operating at the half-clock rate of the SET clock. We exploit the TSPC principle to achieve the best energy-efficient figures by reducing the overall clock load (only to 8 transistors) and register power while providing fully static, contention-free functionality to satisfy ULV operation.