0.3-μm mixed analog/digital CMOS technology for low-voltage operation

1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1837-1842 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ishii ◽  
M. Miyamoto ◽  
R. Nagai ◽  
T. Nishida ◽  
K. Seki
2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 1607-1611
Author(s):  
Hong Gang Zhou ◽  
Shou Biao Tan ◽  
Qiang Song ◽  
Chun Yu Peng

With the scaling of process technologies into the nanometer regime, multiple-bit soft error problem becomes more serious. In order to improve the reliability and yield of SRAM, bit-interleaving architecture which integrated with error correction codes (ECC) is commonly used. However, this leads to the half select problem, which involves two aspects: the half select disturb and the additional power caused by half-selected cells. In this paper, we propose a new 10T cell to allow the bit-interleaving array while completely eliminating the half select problem, thus allowing low-power and low-voltage operation. In addition, the RSNM and WM of our proposed 10T cell are improved by 21% and nearly one times, respectively, as compared to the conventional 6T SRAM cell in SMIC 65nm CMOS technology. We also conduct a comparison with the conventional 6T cell about the leakage simulation results, which show 14% of leakage saving in the proposed 10T cell.


VLSI Design ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Srivastava ◽  
D. Govindarajan

A high-speed 4-bit ALU has been designed for 1 V operation to demonstrate the usefulness of the back-gate forward substrate bias (BGFSB) method in 1.2 μm N-well CMOS technology. The 4-bit ALU employs a ripple carry adder and is capable of performing eight operations - four arithmetic and four logical operations. The BGFSB voltage has been limited to |0.4| V. Delay time measurements are taken for all operations from the SPICE simulations with and without the back-gate forward substrate bias. A speed advantage of a factor of about 2–2.5 is obtained with BGFSB over the conventional design.


2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Khanh Trung Le ◽  
Tu Trong Bui ◽  
Hung Duc Le ◽  
Kha Cong Pham

In the paper, we present a design of a low voltage Operation Amplifier (OPAMP) circuit using split-length transistors. Indirect feedback compensation is an advanced technique used to stabilize the operation of an OPAMP. Cascode transistors are usually implemented for indirect feedback systems. However, these transistors are not suitable for low voltage design. In this study, we have taken advantage of split-length transistors and indirect feedback compensation technique to design a high performance OPAMP. As a result, the OPAMP operates not only at low supply voltage but also at high frequency. The OPAMP has been designed and fabricated in a 0.18um CMOS technology. This OPAMP achieves 100 dB gain, 90 MHz unity gain frequency and 60 degrees phase margin at 2 V supply voltage.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 2108
Author(s):  
Jorge Pérez-Bailón ◽  
Belén Calvo ◽  
Nicolás Medrano

This paper presents the design and postlayout simulation results of a capacitor-less low dropout (LDO) regulator fully integrated in a low-cost standard 180 nm Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology which regulates the output voltage at 1.2 V from a 3.3 to 1.3 V battery over a –40 to 120°C temperature range. To meet with the constraints of system-on-chip (SoC) battery-operated devices, ultralow power (Iq = 8.6 µA) and minimum area consumption (0.109 mm2) are maintained, including a reference voltage Vref = 0.4 V. It uses a high-gain dynamically biased folded-based error amplifier topology optimized for low-voltage operation that achieves an enhanced regulation-fast transient performance trade-off.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Khateb ◽  
Montree Kumngern ◽  
Spyridon Vlassis ◽  
Costas Psychalinos ◽  
Tomasz Kulej

This paper presents a new CMOS structure for a fully balanced differential difference amplifier (FB-DDA) designed to operate from a sub-volt supply. This structure employs the bulk-driven quasi-floating-gate (BD-QFG) technique to achieve the capability of an ultra-low voltage operation and an extended input voltage range. The proposed BD-QFG FB-DDA is suitable for ultra-low-voltage low-power applications. The circuit is designed with a single supply of 0.5 V and consumes only 357 nW of power. The proposed circuit was simulated in a 0.18-μm TSMC CMOS technology and the simulation results prove its functionality and attractive parameters. An application example of a state variable filter is also presented to confirm the usefulness of the proposed BD-QFG FB-DDA.


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