1 Carsten Wulff, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physical Electronics, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] 2 Trond Ytterdal, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physical Electronics, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] Abstract  The work presented here aims to outfit remotely operated laboratories with circuit programmability throug...

The paper presents Gate Transfer Level (GTL) as a general framework for synthesis of industrial complexity asynchronous quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) circuits. The GTL flow automatically provides the finest degree of pipelining (gate-level) resulting in extremely high-performance designs. Automatic gate level pipelining is not possible for synchronous design due to the stage balance problem and...

Complex responses, including chaotic responses, were observed through physiological experiments with biological neurons. To include these complex responses, the chaotic neuron model was proposed. Chaotic dynamical systems have been applied to logical systems, and to information and signal processing systems. In this paper, we propose a dynamic logic element with a chaotic transition region usin...

Domino logic is widely used for high switching speed and high performance circuits. In dynamic logic, problem arises while cascading one gate to another. In order to cascade dynamic logic, domino logic is used which consists of an inverter used between two stages. Robustness of domino logic diminishes with downscaling as leakage power increases. This paper presents a new proposed domino logic c...

Advances in lithography have contributed significantly to the advancement of the integrated circuit technology. While nonoptical next-generation lithography (NGL) solutions are being developed, optical lithography continues to be the workhorse for high-throughput very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) lithography. Extending optical lithography to the resolution levels necessary to support today’s a...

The enhancement-mode MOSFET is the primary active device used in present-day digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit processes. Thus, it is important to introduce this device and associated circuit design methods early in the electronics curriculum. This article discusses four integrated circuit MOSFET amplifier configurations; the current source/active load stage, the source follower, the ...

Many single-electron devices and circuits that realize CMOS-like digital logic were proposed so far (Takahashi, Ono, Fujiwara, & Inokawa, 2002). However, the single-electron circuit technology should aim at developing computing systems that perform information processing by using singleelectron phenomena (Morie, & Amemiya, 2006). Because their operation principles are completely different from ...

Power reduction is one of the biggest challenges in CMOS integrated circuit design. Optimization of power is inevitable in order to reduce package cost and extended battery life. As a switch tri-modal MTCMOS (Multi Threshold CMOS switch) can be considered as a low power solution for data retentive power gating applications. In MTCMOS, transistors with multiple threshold voltages are used in ord...