High speed, low power, low voltage ROMs

Author(s):  
S. Padoan ◽  
A. Boni
Keyword(s):  
Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Bai ◽  
Jianzhong Zhao ◽  
Shi Zuo ◽  
Yumei Zhou

This paper presents a 2.5 Gbps 10-lane low-power low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) transceiver for a high-speed serial interface. In the transmitter, a complementary MOS H-bridge output driver with a common mode feedback (CMFB) circuit was used to achieve a stipulated common mode voltage over process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. The receiver was composed of a pre-stage common mode voltage shifter and a rail-to-rail comparator. The common mode voltage shifter with an error amplifier shifted the common mode voltage of the input signal to the required range, thereby the following rail-to-rail comparator obtained the maximum transconductance to recover the signal. The chip was fabricated using SMIC 28 nm CMOS technology, and had an area of 1.46 mm2. The measured results showed that the output swing of the transmitter was around 350 mV, with a root-mean-square (RMS) jitter of 3.65 [email protected] Gbps, and the power consumption of each lane was 16.51 mW under a 1.8 V power supply.


Author(s):  
P.A. Gowri Sankar ◽  
G. Sathiyabama

The continuous scaling down of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) led to the considerable impact in the analog-digital mixed signal integrated circuit design for system-on-chips (SoCs) application. SoCs trends force ADCs to be integrated on the chip with other digital circuits. These trends present new challenges in ADC circuit design based on existing CMOS technology. In this paper, we have designed and analyzed a 3-bit high speed, low-voltage and low-power flash ADC at 32nm CNFET technology for SoC applications. The proposed ADC utilizes the Threshold Inverter Quantization (TIQ) technique that uses two cascaded carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFET) inverters as a comparator. The TIQ technique proposed has been developed for better implementation in SoC applications. The performance of the proposed ADC is studied using two different types of encoders such as ROM and Fat tree encoders. The proposed ADCs circuits are simulated using Synopsys HSPICE with standard 32nm CNFET model at 0.9 input supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed 3 bit TIQ technique based flash ADC with fat tree encoder operates up to 8 giga samples per second (GSPS) with 35.88µW power consumption. From the simulation results, we observed that the proposed TIQ flash ADC achieves high speed, small size, low power consumption, and low voltage operation compared to other low power CMOS technology based flash ADCs. The proposed method is sensitive to process, temperature and power supply voltage variations and their impact on the ADC performance is also investigated.


Author(s):  
Mohd Tafir Mustaffa

Comparator is one of the main blocks that play a vital task in the performance of analog to digital converters (ADC) in all modern technology devices. High-speed devices with low voltage and low power are considered essential for industrial applications. The design of a low-power comparator with high speed is required to accomplish the requirements mostly in electronic devices that are necessary for high-speed ADCs. However, a high-speed device that leads the scaling down of CMOS process technology will consume more power. Thus, power reduction techniques such as multi-threshold super cut-off stack (MTSCStack), dual-threshold transistor stacking (DTTS), a bulk-driven, and a bulk-driven differential pair were studied in this work. This study aims to find and build the combination of these techniques to produce a comparator that can operate in low power without compromising existing performance using the 0.13-µm CMOS process. A comparator with a combination of MTSCStack, DTTS, and NMOS bulk-driven differential pair shows the most promising result of 6.29 µW for static power, 17.15 µW for dynamic power, and 23.44 µW for total power.


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