The paper describes the design of a floating gate MOS sensor embedded in a readout CMOS element, used as a radiation monitor. A maximum sensitivity of 1 mV/rad is estimated within an absorbed dose range from 1 to 10 krad. The paper shows in particular the design of a microelectronic circuit that includes the floating gate sensor, an oscillator, a modulator, a transmitter and an integrated anten...

 A 3-transistor nonvolatile analog storage cell with 14 bits effective resolution and railto-rail buffered voltage output is presented. The memory, which consists of charge stored on a MOS transistor floating gate, is written by means of hotelectron injection and erased by means of gate oxide tunneling. The circuit allows simultaneous memory reading and writing; by writing the memory under fee...

2. CAPACITIVE SOLUTIONS This paper reviews differential implementations of threshold logic gates, detailing two classes of solutions: capacitive (switched capacitor and floating gate), and conductance/current. The concept underlying capacitive TLGs is the use of an array of capacitors to implement the weighted sum of inputs. The idea was introduced as early as 1966 [6]. Capacitive TLGs can be c...

In this paper, a new approach for design of a fully differential second order current mode continuous-time sigma-delta modulator is presented. For circuit implementation, square root domain (SRD) translinear loop based on floating-gate MOS transistors that operate in saturation region is employed. The modulator features, low supply voltage, low power consumption (8mW) and high dynamic range (55...

A non-volatile nanocrystal floating gate MOS capacitor with multi-level function is achieved by engineering the electric field within the tunneling oxide via a stepped control oxide. A MOS capacitor containing Au nanocrystals in a stepped HfO2 and SiO2 tunneling oxide matrix was fabricated in order to demonstrate this concept. The flatband voltage shift, measured from the C–V hysteresis curves,...

The mos protooncogene encodes a serine/threonine kinase and is a key regulator of oocyte meiotic maturation. After acute infection of Swiss 3T3 cells with virus containing the v-mos oncogene, cells expressing high levels of v-Mos round up and detach from the monolayer (floating cells), while cells that remain attached express 10-fold lower levels of v-Mos and are transformed. The floating cells...

Multi-context (MC) FPGAs have multiple memory bits per configuration bit forming configuration planes for fast switching between contexts. Large amount of memory causes significant overhead in area and power consumption. This paper presents two key technologies. The first is a floating-gate-MOS functional pass gate that merges storage and switching functions area-efficiently. The second is the ...