Digital IP Protection Using Threshold Voltage Control

This paper proposes a method to completely hide the functionality of a digital standard cell. This is accomplished by a differential threshold logic gate (TLG). A TLG with $n$ inputs implements a subset of Boolean functions of $n$ variables that are linear threshold functions. The output of such a gate is one if and only if an integer weighted linear arithmetic sum of the inputs equals or exceeds a given integer threshold. We present a novel architecture of a TLG that not only allows a single TLG to implement a large number of complex logic functions, which would require multiple levels of logic when implemented using conventional logic primitives, but also allows the selection of that subset of functions by assignment of the transistor threshold voltages to the input transistors. To obfuscate the functionality of the TLG, weights of some inputs are set to zero by setting their device threshold to be a high $V_t$. The threshold voltage of the remaining transistors is set to low $V_t$ to increase their transconductance. The function of a TLG is not determined by the cell itself but rather the signals that are connected to its inputs. This makes it possible to hide the support set of the function by essentially removing some variable from the support set of the function by selective assignment of high and low $V_t$ to the input transistors. We describe how a standard cell library of TLGs can be mixed with conventional standard cells to realize complex logic circuits, whose function can never be discovered by reverse engineering. A 32-bit Wallace tree multiplier and a 28-bit 4-tap filter were synthesized on an ST 65nm process, placed and routed, then simulated including extracted parastics with and without obfuscation. Both obfuscated designs had much lower area (25%) and much lower dynamic power (30%) than their nonobfuscated CMOS counterparts, operating at the same frequency

High Speed Low Area DA Based FIR Filter Using EGDI Adder

In this paper, we proposed a novel enhanced gate diffusion (EGDI) adder is designed and is implemented in Distributed Arithmetic (DA) based Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter.  Generally, multipliers, adders, and shift accumulators are the basic blocks present in the FIR filters. The hardware architecture of multipliers is very high. To get rid of this multiplier less architecture is needed in the FIR filter. So Distributed Arithmetic architecture plays a key role in FIR filters which will occupy less area and increase the speed. To reduce the area further the adders in DA are designed using enhanced gate diffusion (EGDI) which increases the operation speed of the FIR filter and at the same time, the area will be decreased. The proposed design is synthesized and implemented in the Synapsis design compiler tool. The area, power delay product, frequency, area delay product, and power of the proposed design are calculated.  When we observe the proposed design has a 15% high-frequency rate when compared with the existing design. Also, the proposed design is more useful in signal, processing applications

High Speed Low Area DA Based FIR Filter Using EGDI Adder

In this paper, we proposed a novel enhanced gate diffusion (EGDI) adder is designed and is implemented in Distributed Arithmetic (DA) based Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter.  Generally, multipliers, adders, and shift accumulators are the basic blocks present in the FIR filters. The hardware architecture of multipliers is very high. To get rid of this multiplier less architecture is needed in the FIR filter. So Distributed Arithmetic architecture plays a key role in FIR filters which will occupy less area and increase the speed. To reduce the area further the adders in DA are designed using enhanced gate diffusion (EGDI) which increases the operation speed of the FIR filter and at the same time, the area will be decreased. The proposed design is synthesized and implemented in the Synapsis design compiler tool. The area, power delay product, frequency, area delay product, and power of the proposed design are calculated.  When we observe the proposed design has a 15% high-frequency rate when compared with the existing design. Also, the proposed design is more useful in signal, processing applications

Concepts for on-board satellite image registration. Volume 3: Impact of VLSI/VHSIC on satellite on-board signal processing

Anticipated major advances in integrated circuit technology in the near future are described as well as their impact on satellite onboard signal processing systems. Dramatic improvements in chip density, speed, power consumption, and system reliability are expected from very large scale integration. Improvements are expected from very large scale integration enable more intelligence to be placed on remote sensing platforms in space, meeting the goals of NASA's information adaptive system concept, a major component of the NASA End-to-End Data System program. A forecast of VLSI technological advances is presented, including a description of the Defense Department's very high speed integrated circuit program, a seven-year research and development effort

The Integration of nearthreshold and subthreshold CMOS logic for energy minimization

With the rapid growth in the use of portable electronic devices, more emphasis has recently been placed on low-energy circuit design. Digital subthreshold complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuit design is one area of study that offers significant energy reduction by operating at a supply voltage substantially lower than the threshold voltage of the transistor. However, these energy savings come at a critical cost to performance, restricting its use to severely energy-constrained applications such as microsensor nodes. In an effort to mitigate this performance degradation in low-energy designs, nearthreshold circuit design has been proposed and implemented in digital circuits such as Intel\u27s energy-efficient hardware accelerator. The application spectrum of nearthreshold and subthreshold design could be broadened by integrating these cells into high-performance designs. This research focuses on the integration of characterized nearthreshold and subthreshold standard cells into high-performance functional modules. Within these functional modules, energy minimization is achieved while satisfying performance constraints by replacing non-critical path logic with nearthreshold and subthreshold logic cells. Specifically, the critical path method is used to bind the timing and energy constraints of the design. The design methodology was verified and tested with several benchmark circuits, including a cryptographic hash function, Skein. An average energy savings of 41.15% was observed at a circuit performance degradation factor of 10. The energy overhead of the level shifters accounted for at least 8.5% of the energy consumption of the optimized circuit, with an average energy overhead of 26.76%. A heuristic approach is developed for estimating the energy savings of the optimized design

Booth Multiplier Based on Low Power High Speed Full Adder With Fin_FET Technology

This paper proposes a novel Fin FET-based HSFA for the multiplier in order to overcome the issues of low speed operation. It is advantageous to use Fin FETs to construct the arithmetic circuit while assessing the available works. The carry propagation and slow operation of the old technique are disadvantages. The CMOS-based compressor circuit, on the other hand, suffers from leakage current, which reduces its driving capabilities. High current DSP applications are well matched to the design's specifications. Even with a supply voltage of 1 volt, the proposed device has a decent driving capability. As a result, the circuit runs more quickly and has less latency. A transmission gate is used in the design of the suggested adder structure to selectively block or transfer data from the input to output. Half adder and adder are shown in the following illustrations. The smaller the transistor count, the less power it uses. The suggested Fin FET design for the smaller transistors has a superior driving capability than the CMOS equivalent. Additionally, when cascading, the Fin FET based adder may contribute to superior switch performance, such as when using ripple carry adder. There is also the possibility of a low operation, which may operate at Low wattage Electronic designs for high-performance and small devices have become increasingly dependent on the use of VLSI circuits. The power of a processor is determined in large part by the multiplier used in its design. Multiplier factor booth coding is being used to reorder the input bits in order to reduce facility use. The booth decoder works by rearranging the specified booth equivalent. The Booth decoder has the ability to expand the range of zeros. As a result, the power consumption of the design will be decreased even more. As soon as the input bit constant drops below zero, related rows or columns of an adder must be disabled, if possible

Low Power and Improved Speed Montgomery Multiplier using Universal Building Blocks

This paper describes the arithmetic blocks based on Montgomery Multiplier (MM), which reduces complexity, gives lower power dissipation and higher operating frequency. The main objective in designing these arithmetic blocks is to use modified full adder structure and carry save adder structure that can be implemented in algorithm based MM circuit. The conventional full adder design acts as a benchmark for comparison, the second is the modified Boolean equation for full adder and third design is the design of full adder consisting of two XOR gate and a 2-to-1 Multiplexer. Besides Universal gates such as NOR gate and NAND gate, full adder circuits are used to further improve the speed of the circuit. The MM circuit is evaluated based on different parameters such as operating frequency, power dissipation and area of occupancy in FPGA board. The schematic designs of the arithmetic components along with the MM architecture are constructed using Quartus II tool, while the simulation is done using Model sim for verification of circuit functionality which has shown improvement on the full adder design with two XOR gate and one 2-to-1 Multiplexer implementation in terms of power dissipation, operating frequency and area