This paper presents a low-power and fully integrated frontend channel for long-wave infrared spectroscopic gas recognition. The proposed channel circuitry includes: input sensor biasing, sub-Hz high-pass filtering and pre-amplification, differential blind cancellation, and lock-in A/D conversion. The proposed CMOS circuits make extensive use of transistor subthreshold operation and digital prog...

MOS devices go 3D, new quantum effect devices appear in the research labs. This paper discusses the impact of various innovative device architectures on circuit design. Examples of circuits with FinFETs or Multi-Gate-FETs are shown and their performance is compared with classically scaled CMOS circuits both for digital and analog applications. As an example for novel quantum effect devices beyo...

The need for faster circuits in smaller area with lower power dissipation has made it a common practice to use the domino CMOS in high performance integrated circuits. However this improved performance comes at the cost of lower noise immunity. Also current trends in integrated circuit technology have increased chances of crosstalk due to capacitive coupling. Though several works have investiga...

As great advancements have been made in CMOS process technology over the past 20 years, RF CMOS circuits operating in the microwave band have rapidly developed from component circuit levels to multiband/multimode transceiver levels. In the next ten years, it is highly likely that the following devices will be realized: (i) versatile transceivers such as those used in software-defined radios (SD...

Superconductive single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuit technology attracts attention as a next generation technology of integrated circuits because of its ultra-fast computation speed and low power consumption. In SFQ digital circuits, unlike CMOS digital circuits, a pulse is used as a carrier of information and the representation of the logic values is different from that in CMOS digital circuits. ...

   Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been the industry standard to implement Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) devices for the last two decades. Due to the consequences of miniaturization of such devices (i.e. increasing switching speeds, increasing complexity and decreasing power consumption), it is essential to replace them with a new technology. Quantum-dot c...

CDM ESD event has become the main ESD reliability concern for integrated-circuits products using nanoscale CMOS technology. A novel CDM ESD protection design, using self-biased current trigger (SBCT) and source pumping, has been proposed and successfully verified in 0.13-lm CMOS technology to achieve 1-kV CDM ESD robustness. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Operational amplifiers are important building blocks for analog circuit design. Unfortunately, their limited performance such as bandwidth, slew-rate etc. leads the analog designer to search other possibilites and other building blocks. As a result, new current-mode active building blocks such as operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA), second generation current conveyors (CCII), current-...