The proposed winner-take-all-loser-take-all (WTA–LTA) circuit identifies both the winner and the loser simultaneously using a shared delay line and is suitable for applications where both the winner and the loser are important. Due to the shared delay line between the WTA and LTA cells, power consumption and occupied area are significantly reduced. The power consumption per cell at a frequency of 2 MHz is 5°nW and the occupied area per cell is 41.43°µm2. Moreover, the precision of the circuit for three cells is 99.4% for WTA and 99.2% for LTA. The proposed time-domain WTA-LTA circuit has been post-layout simulated in 65-nm technology with a supply voltage of 0.5 V.

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