LOW-POWER CMOS BICMOS DRIVERS AND RECEIVERS FOR ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS/

Novel low-voltage swing CMOS and BICMOS driver/receiver circuits for l ow-power VLSI applications are proposed, Interconnect wire drivers wit h low output signal swing are employed. Special receivers provide sing le and double level conversion while minimizing the total driver/recei ver transmission delay, These level converters have no de power dissip ation, At 3.3 V power supply voltage, the proposed circuits consume le ss power without delay penalty, The power saving is observed to be as high as 30%. At lower supplies further power and delay improvements ar e observed.