The Design of Low Power High Speed Two Level Three input XOR gate

Abstract

The Large Fan-In and high performance gates are essential to make portable electronic devices. In this paper an efficient realization of three input two level XOR(Exclusive-OR) is presented. The design of low power and high speed proposed XOR gate involves the combination of pass and transmission gates. The main objective to achieve this is based on the selection of input signals to propagate and maintain the good logic swing. Two methods were used to design proposed XOR, one (i.e. Pass_gate) is purely based on pass transistors with 8 MOSFET’s and second method(Modified_Pass_gate) uses transmission gates with 12 transistors. The Modified_Pass_gate offers 86.14% and 6.66% of power dissipation reduction compared to static and Pass_gate XOR respectively and 77.18% and 50.94% less propagation delay compared to static and Pass_gate XOR respectively, at the supply voltage of 0.7v with input signal frequency of 3GHz. The simulation is performed based on 32nm technology node(PTM-models) using Hspice Synopsis simulation tool.