This paper presents an investigation on the processes, trends, and applications of the BiCMOS technology in the fields of microelectronics and communication electronics. The investigation will focus on the design perspectives and different modifications that were developed to provide a very-high performance BiCMOS integrated circuit for both digital and mixed-signal applications. E. A. Gonzalez...

Silicon integrated circuit interconnect technology has evolved rapidly, driven by the continual increase in device functional density. This paper reviews past technology developments and highlights current innovations such as the use of copper metallisation and low k dielectrics to overcome device speed limitations. Areas of convergence between silicon and compound semiconductor interconnect te...

In this study, an electronically tunable resistorless dual-mode quadrature sinusoidal oscillator, based on current controlled current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCCCTA) and two grounded capacitors is presented. The proposed resistorless oscillator employs a single CCCCTA and two grounded capacitors and thus is well suited for integrated circuit implementation. The proposed circuit is ...

As integrated circuit (IC) technology advances, the ever increasing process variation has become a growing concern [1]. A complex IC, containing numerous circuit components (e.g., millions of SRAM bit-cells integrated in an advanced microprocessor), is required to meet the design specification not only at the nominal process corner, but also under large-scale process variations. To achieve suff...

Operational amplifiers are important building blocks for analog circuit design. Unfortunately, their limited performance such as bandwidth, slew-rate etc. leads the analog designer to search other possibilites and other building blocks. As a result, new current-mode active building blocks such as operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA), second generation current conveyors (CCII), current-...

This paper presents a fully-integrated NEMS resonator together with a compact built-in CMOS interfacing circuitry. The proposed low-power CCII circuit allows measuring the mechanical frequency response of the nanocantilever structure in the MHz range. Detailed experimental results at different DC biasing conditions and pressure levels are presented for a real mixed electro-mechanical system int...

This study examines the effect of library instruction on two sections of the same senior-level electrical engineering course in analog integrated circuit design. One section received a onehour library instruction session while the other section did not. The premise of the study is that inclusion of library instruction will result in higher utilization of scholarly resources in the students’ fin...

A novel design of compact six-port circuit is proposed for millimeter-wave integrated system design. All the structure is based on the use of an elliptic coupler with certain geometrical characteristics. The prototype circuit occupies only 66.5 % of the size of the conventional six-port junction at the same frequency. To examine the performance of the proposed circuit, the six-port using multil...