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A Low-Power and High-Precision Winner-Take-All Circuit for Low-Voltage Applications

2025

Abstract

This paper presents a new low-power and high-precision digital winner-take-all (WTA) circuit. The proposed circuit employs a parallel architecture with a symmetric positive-feedback network to determine the maximum (winner) input signal. The feedback network not only improves the circuit's speed and precision, but also ensures a unique winner is determined, even when the input signals are very close together. Furthermore, the proposed symmetric structure avoids the systematic error present in previous designs, leading to a further improvement in precision. The proposed WTA circuit has been designed and simulated in a standard 180−nm CMOS technology. Post-layout simulations show that the three-input circuit achieves a precision of 99.96 % under a 0.5 V supply voltage and at an operating frequency of 1 MHz. The circuit consumes a power of 32.4 nW and occupies an area of 23.6μ m×12.6μ m.

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2025

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/65041b03-debc-4a64-8d11-215c5102d45c

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