A Low-Power Half-Swing Clocking Scheme for Flip-Flop with Complementary Gate and Source Drive

A half-swing clocking scheme with a complementary gate and source drive is proposed for a CMOS flip-flop to reduce the power consumption of the clock system by 43%, while keeping the flip-flop delay time the same as that of the conventional full-swing clocking scheme. The delay time of the preceding half stage of a flip-flop using this scheme is less than half of that using the previous half-swing clocking scheme. key words: CMOS ipop, low power, half-swing clocking,