The evolution of CMOS technology demands new approaches to implement radio-frequency integrated circuits. This paper presents two digital-intensive frequency synthesizers implemented in 65-nm CMOS: a digital period frequency synthesizer and an all-digital phase-locked loop. The experimental circuits cover frequency ranges of 0.1 4.3 GHz and 2.7 6.1 GHz.

On-chip parasitic inductance inherent to the power distribution network has becoming significant in high speed digital circuits. Therefore, current surges result in voltage fluctuations within the power distribution network, creating delay uncertainty. On-chip simultaneous switching noise should therefore be considered when estimating the propagation delay of a CMOS logic gate in high speed syn...

Domino logic is a CMOS-based evolution of the dynamic logic techniques. It allows a rail-to-rail logic swing. It was developed to speed up circuits. In integrated circuit design, dynamic logic (or sometimes clocked logic) is a design methodology in combinatorial logic circuits, particularly those implemented in MOS technology. This work is oriented towards implementing the domino logic circuits...

The tradition of implementing analogue circuits by means of voltage amplifiers is almost as old as the concept of electronic circuit design. The integrated electronic circuit, however, is a relatively new concept. Furthermore, integrated electronic circuits have significantly different limitations and strengths to the conventional discrete electronic circuits have. Since the active devices in i...

Driven by the demand of the bioelectronics market, many biosensors need to work in parallel or in a controllable way to achieve complicated biodetections, however the limited scale, speed, cost, complex signal processing, and bulky circuit routing problems prohibit the discrete biosensor solutions (Drummond et al., 2003). Nowaday biosensor are usually integrated on the same substrate to form bi...

A novel CMOS tunable transconductor is presented. The circuit operates in classAB hence featuring power efficiency. The internal feedback employed and the use of a linearized triode transistor for voltage-to-current conversion allows achieving high linearity. Rail-to-rail input range is obtained by using floatinggate transistors. Measurement results for a test chip prototype in a 0.5μm standard...