Interconnections are increasingly one of the dominant contributors to delay, area and energy consumption in CMOS digital circuits now a days. Multiple Valued Logic (MVL) can decrease the average power required for level transitions and also the number of required interconnections are reduced. So the impact of interconnections on overall energy consumption is reduced. In this paper, a quaternary...

In this work we study the feasibility to obtain the smallest CMOS-NEMS resonator using a sub-100 nm CMOS technology. The NEMS resonators are defined in a top-down approach using the available layers of the 65 nm CMOS technology from ST Microelectronics. A combination of dry and wet etching is developed in order to release the NEMS in an in-house post-CMOS process. Two different NEMS resonators ...

This paper presents a 40-MHz hybrid CMOS/GaN integrated multiphase dc–dc switched-inductor buck converter with a maximum 20-V input voltage. The half-bridge switches are realized using lateral AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, while the drivers and other circuitry are implemented in standard 180-nm CMOS. The interface between the CMOS and GaN dice is achieved through face-to-face bonding, reducing inductive par...

This paper presents a voltage-controlled delay unit (VCDU) with novel architecture allowing for wide input range of linearity and an improved immunity to electromagnetic interferences. The circuit is based on current-starved inverter biasing technique extend the voltage near rail-to-rail range. proposed scheme was designed by UMC 180 nm standard CMOS process works without power-hungry amplifier...

CARLA SÁ*, RAYMOND J. G. M. FLORAX† and PIET RIETVELD‡ *University of Minho, Portugal, and Tinbergen Institute, Roetersstraat 31, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected] †Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801–3671, ...

T. M. H. Creemers,† C. A. De Caro,†,‡ R. W. Visschers,§ R. van Grondelle,| and S. Vo1lker*,†,| Center for the Study of Excited States of Molecules, Huygens and Gorlaeus Laboratories, UniVersity of Leiden, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Faculty of Biology, Free UniVersity, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Department of Biophysics, Facul...

The MALTA CMOS monolithic silicon pixel sensors has been developed in the Tower 180 nm imaging process. It includes an asynchronous readout scheme and complies with ATLAS inner tracker requirements for HL-LHC. Several 4-chip modules have built using Al wedge wire bonding to demonstrate direct transfer of data from chip-to-chip read out entire module via one chip only. Novel technologies such as...