A Two-Phase Non-Overlapping Clock Generator With Buffered
Output
                     Polasi Yasaswi, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology
                                                 June 21, 2021
Abstract                                                        2   Reference Circuit
In this paper, a new robust non overlapping two phase
clock generator with buffered output on both phases is
proposed. Two phase clock is a control signal gener-
ator and bus driver which must perform well driving
relatively large capacitive loads. A two phase clock of-
fers a great deal of freedom in sequential circuit design
if the clock period and the duration of the signals p1
and p2 are correctly chosen. The circuit lodged here
uses a pMOS, nMOS transistors. Result reflects that                   Figure 1: Reference circuit diagram.
the proposed approach shows a H Spice simulation re-
sult at 10MHz. The proposed circuit will implemented
in eSim EDA tool and will be done using Sky130nm                3   Reference Circuit Waveforms
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1    Reference Circuit Details
The circuit two phase clock generator is required to ac-
cept a single-phase input clock signal of 10MHz max-
imum frequency and, from this, generate two phase
non overlapping clock signals at the input clock fre-
quency. The two-phase clock signals are to be good,
clean square waves, and each phase should be capable
of driving a load capacitance of 0.33pF without un-                Figure 2: Reference waveform.
due waveform degradation. The design rules used in
two-phase clock generator circuit will be lambda based
with value lambda = 2 micro meters for fabrication
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at each output and if the technology in use caters for
BiCMOS circuits, the redesign the two phase generator
to include BiCMOS output stages for each phase. A
futher need may be for buffered complementary out-
puts, that is complement of p1 nd compliment of p2 to
be generated.