Supply voltage analysis for MRF circuits design based on information theory

IEICE Electronics Express

Jianhao Hu¹  Yan Li¹  Yufeng Li² 

[1] National Key Lab. of Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;University of Alberta

关键词: MRF;    supply voltage;    information theory;   

DOI  :  10.1587/elex.13.20161080

学科分类：电子、光学、磁材料

来源: Denshi Jouhou Tsuushin Gakkai

【 摘 要 】

Reliability is an essential issue in circuits design. The methodology of Markova random field (MRF) provides a new way for ultra-low supply voltage design to obtain high noise-immune performance. However, MRF circuits have a lack of the analysis for the supply voltage. In this paper, we use information theory to analyze the low bound of the supply voltage. Then, we prove the MRF circuit has lower supply voltage compared to the traditional circuit under the same output correct probability. The contribution of this paper is providing a mathematical proof for MRF circuit from the information theory viewpoint in low supply voltage design.

【 授权许可】

CC BY