This paper presents a low-voltage low-power differential linear transconductor with near rail-to-rail input swing. Based on the current-mirror OTA topology, the proposed transconductor combines the Flipped Voltage Follower (FVF) technique to linearize the transconductor behavior that leads to classAB linear operation and the virtual transistor technique to lower the effective threshold voltages...

In this paper we promote the Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) NAND gate to replace either partly or entirely the encryption block of a design to withstand power analysis attack. Keywords—Differential Power Analysis (DPA), Low Voltage (LV), Ultra Low Voltage (ULV), Floating-Gate (FG) and supply current analysis.

The very fast growing market of portable equipment is increasing interest in low power integrates circuit. So, designing low power integrated circuits requires reduction of supply voltages and interconnection parasitic to minimum but reduction in supply voltage implies series of problems in circuit design. To overcome these issues, an Ultra low power low voltage two stage class AB CMOS fully di...

This paper discusses the design of low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain controls. Four different AGCs are presented, all consisting of three elementary building blocks: a controlled amplifier, a comparator and a voltage follower. Their design is treated separately. As an example, the final section describes an automatic gain control for hearing instruments. INTRODUCTION Low-v...

The growth of battery-powered mobile and wearable devices has increased the importance of low-power operation and cost in system-on-a-chip (SoC) design. Supply-voltage scaling is the predominant approach to active power reduction for SoC design, including voltage scaling for on-die memory given increasing levels of memory integration. SRAM can limit the minimum operating voltage (VMIN) of a des...

—In this paper, we present a method to design low-power low-voltage current-mirror based integrators for continuous-time modulators. It is shown that, by proper biasing of the mirror transistors, very high modulation index can be achieved at low-voltage supply. Careful analysis of the current-mode integrator shows that there exists an optimum supply voltage for minimum power consumption. Simula...