Showing posts with label Input Vector Dependence on Leakage Power. Show all posts
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April 08, 2018

Leakage Power: Input Vector Dependence

Leakage Power of a standard cell depends on various transistors parameters like the channel length, threshold voltage, substrate or the body bias voltage etc. Apart from these physical parameters, leakage power also depends upon the input vector applied.

Consider a 2-input NAND gate and a 3-input NAND gate. Can you arrange the input combinations: (AB = 00, 01, 10, 11 for a 2-input NAND gate), and (ABC = 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111 for a 3-input NAND gate) in increasing order of leakage current, with a word of two about the logical reasoning behind it?

Note that the order of transistors in a stack matters here.

2-input NAND and 3-input NAND Gates