Static Latch and Low Power Flip Flop
Introduction Latches and flip-flops play important roles in the building of digital CMOS circuits. Timing elements such as flip-flops and latches in addition to the building blocks of any clocking system, form the most important components in synchronous VLSI system. Moreover, the key signal in all synchronous systems is the apparent clock and clock signal is normally heavily loaded by all the latches and flip-flops in the chip, and by the clock distribution network that covers the whole chip. Lastly, although the activity ratio of the clock signal is unity, the interconnection length of the clock trees has been increasing radically. The design trend is thus to increase the pipeline stages for high throughput, and this has prompted the increased in the number of latches and flip-flops in a chip. ...