With adiabatic techniques for capacitor charging, theory suggests that it should be possible to build gates with arbitrarily small energy dissipation. In practice, the complexity of adiabatic approaches has made them impractical. We describe a new CMOS logic family-adiabatic dynamic logic (ADL)-that is the result of combining adiabatic theory with conventional CMOS dynamic logic. ADL gates are simple, general, readily cascadable, and may be fabricated in a standard CMOS process. A chain of 1000 ADL inverters has been constructed in 0.9 /spl mu/m CMOS and successfully tested at 250 MHz. This result, together with comprehensive circuit simulation, suggest that ADL offers an order of magnitude reduction in power consumption over conventional CMOS circuitry.
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机译：利用用于电容器充电的绝热技术，理论表明应该可以以任意小的能量耗散来构建栅极。实际上，绝热方法的复杂性使其不切实际。我们描述了一个新的CMOS逻辑家族-绝热动态逻辑（ADL），这是将绝热理论与常规CMOS动态逻辑相结合的结果。 ADL栅极简单，通用，易于级联，并且可以采用标准CMOS工艺制造。已在0.9 / spl mu / m CMOS中构建了1000个ADL反相器链，并成功在250 MHz下进行了测试。该结果与全面的电路仿真一起表明，与传统的CMOS电路相比，ADL的功耗降低了一个数量级。
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