Low-power circuit design using adiabatic switching principle

This paper presents a new family of logic gates for low energy computing using pulsed power CMOS logic. The logic gates use the principles of adiabatic switching and results show that in typical cases 90% of the energy can he recovered with operating frequency around 1 MHz and more than 60% of energy can still be recovered at 111 MHz. We also present a detailed analysis and modeling of energy dissipation in adiabatic circuits. The models were experimentally validated using the circuit simulator SPICE.