Glitching power reduction through supply voltage adaptation mechanism for low power array structure design

A novel supply voltage switching mechanism for reducing power dissipation of array structures is presented. With this mechanism, the supply voltage levels are successively activated by external clock signal in the direction of signal propagation. The mechanism eliminates power dissipated by the glitches while the speed of the array structure can be maintained. The mechanism is easily incorporated so that no circuit change in the existing array structure is required.