This paper presents a novel methodology for IC speed-up in 32 nm FinFET. By taking advantage of independently controlling two gates of IG-FinFET, we develop the boosting structures that can improve the signal propagation on interconnect significantly. Furthermore, the circuit area and power dissipation issues are also taken into account. With the addition of boosting path, the full booster can ...

Grid connected power conversion is an absolutely critical component of many established and developing industries, such as information technology, telecommunications, renewable power generation (e.g. photovoltaic and wind), even down to consumer electronics. There is an ever present demand to reduce the volume and cost, while increasing converter efficiency and performance. Reducing the losses ...

In order to optimize power consumption, it is important to know where and why power is consumed in a specific system. Power estimation gives a more or less accurate answer for the first question (where?). Knowing where power is consumed allows designers to optimize these specific components. However, the second question (why?) for the reason of power consumption, is more difficult to answer: Ac...

As CMOS technology scales down, the design of ESD protection circuits becomes more challenging. There are some disadvantages for the actual power clamp circuit. In this paper, an optimization ESD power clamp circuit is proposed. The new clamp circuit adopts the edge triggering True Single Phase Clocked Logic (TSPCL) D flip-flop to turn on and time delay, it has the advantage of dynamic transmis...

The history of micro system electronics is briefly traced through the successive stages of: miniaturization; subminiaturization; microminiaturization; thin-film integrated circuits; semiconductor integrated circuits; and finally morphological integrated circuits or functional blocks. The term integrated circuit is defined as the combination, on or within a single chunk of material, of multiple ...

The growing market of mobile, battery-powered electronic systems demands the design of microelectronic circuits with low power dissipation. More generally, as density, size, and complexity of the chips continue to increase, the difficulty in providing proper cooling might either add significant cost or limit the functionality of the computing systems that make use of those integrated circuits. ...

High-temperature power conversion modules (DC-DC converters, inverters, etc.) have enormous potential in extreme environment applications, including automotive, aerospace, geothermal, nuclear, and well logging. Power-to-volume and power-to-weight ratios of these modules can be significantly improved by employing Silicon Carbide (SiC) based power switches (MOSFET or JFET). Wide bandgap material ...

0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig uthor at: School a Institute of Tec . [email protected] Abstract Demonstrating integrated triboelectric nanogenerator energy harvesting systems that contain triboelectric nanogenerators, power management circuits, signal processing circuits, energy storage elements, and/or load circuits are core steps for practical applications of triboelectric nanogenerator...

This paper shows, for the first time, a complete magnetic field sensing system including a Lorentz-force sensor operating at a frequency slightly lower than the mechanical resonance coupled to an integrated circuit for sensing and driving the device. Working out of resonance, the trade-off between maximum sensing bandwidth and minimum detectable magnetic field is overwhelmed, allowing to improv...