Armin Tajalli

Extreme Low-Power Mixed Signal IC Design: Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuits Armin Tajalli 2010 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Applications of Widely Adjustable Circuits and Systems -- 1.1.1. Performance Scalability and Requirements -- 1.2. Prior Art -- 1.2.1. Digital Circuits -- 1.2.2. Analog Circuits -- 1.3. Organization -- References -- 2. Subthreshold MOS for Ultra-Low Power -- 2.1. MOS Technology -- 2.2. Device Modeling -- 2.2.1. I-V Characteristics -- 2.2.2. Second Order Effects -- 2.3. Design Considerations in Subthreshold -- 2.3.1. PVT Variation -- 2.3.2. Matching -- 2.3.3. Noise -- 2.4. Ultra-Low-Power Design Using Subthreshold MOS -- 2.4.1. MOS Transistor Leakage Mechanisms -- 2.4.2. Leakage Reduction Techniques -- 2.5. Impacts of Variation on Subthreshold CMOS Operation -- 2.5.1. Noise Margin -- 2.5.2. Energy Consumption -- 2.5.3. Optimal Design with Technology Scaling -- 2.5.4. Supply Voltage and Threshold Voltage Scaling for Optimal Design -- References -- Part I. Scalable and Ultra-Low-Power Digital Integrated Circuits -- 3. Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Conventional SCL Topology -- 3.2.1. Circuit Topology -- 3.2.2. Tradeoffs in Design of Strong-Inversion SCL Gates -- 3.3. Ultra-Low-Power Source-Coupled Logic -- 3.3.1. High-Valued Load Device Concept -- 3.3.2. STSCL Gates -- 3.4. Design Issues and Performance Estimation -- 3.4.1. Power-Speed Tradeoffs in STSCL -- 3.4.2. Noise Margin -- 3.4.3. Replica Bias Circuit -- 3.4.4. Minimum Operating Current -- 3.4.5. Global Process and Temperature Variation -- 3.4.6. Effect of Mismatch on Delay -- 3.4.7. Minimum Supply Voltage -- 3.5. Experimental Results -- 3.5.1. Basic Building Blocks -- 3.5.2. Ring Oscillator and Frequency Divider -- 3.5.3. Multiplier Circuit -- 3.6. Conclusion -- References -- 4. STSCL Standard Cell Library Development -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Standard Cell Library -- 4.2.1. Background -- 4.2.2. Cell Types -- 4.2.3. Cell Layout -- 4.2.4. Characterization -- 4.2.5. LEF File -- 4.2.6. Template Generation -- 4.3. Design Strategies -- 4.3.1. Series-Parallel Tail Bias Transistors -- 4.3.2. Constant Area Scaling -- 4.4. Demonstration Circuits -- 4.4.1. FIR Filter Topology -- 4.4.2. Sample FIR Filter Demonstrator Circuit -- 4.5. Conclusion -- References -- 5. Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic Performance Analysis -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Comparison with the CMOS Topology -- 5.2.1. Ultra-Low-Power Requirements -- 5.2.2. Power-Speed Tradeoff in STSCL -- 5.2.3. Performance Analysis of CMOS Logic Circuits -- 5.2.4. Performance Comparison -- 5.3. Performance Improvement Techniques -- 5.3.1. Compound Logic Style -- 5.3.2. Using Source-Follower Buffer -- 5.3.3. Pipelining Technique -- 5.4. Experimental Results -- 5.4.1. STSCL with Source-Follower Buffer -- 5.4.2. Pipelined Adder Chain -- 5.4.3. Pipelined Multiplier -- 5.5. Conclusions -- References -- 6. Low-Activity-Rate and Memory Circuits in STSCL -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Power Efficiency in Low Activity Rates -- 6.2.1. STSCL Topology Performance -- 6.2.2. CMOS Topology Performance -- 6.2.3. Comparison -- 6.3. Low-Leakage CMOS SRAMs -- 6.4. Low Stand-By Current STSCL Memory Cell -- 6.4.1. Circuit Topology -- 6.4.2. Device Sizing -- 6.4.3. Sense Amplifier -- 6.4.4. Leakage Current Detection -- 6.5. Experimental Results -- 6.6. Observations and Discussion -- References -- Part II. Scalable and Ultra-Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits -- 7. Widely Adjustable Continuous-Time Filter Design -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Amplifier Design -- 7.2.1. Low Power Folded-Cascode Amplifier -- 7.2.2. Widely Adjustable Two-Stage Amplifier -- 7.3. Transconductor-C Filter Design -- 7.3.1. Proposed Biquadratic Filter Topology -- 7.3.2. Dynamic Range -- 7.3.3. Sixth Order gm-C Filter -- 7.4. MOSFET-C Filter Design -- 7.4.1. Circuit Topology -- 7.4.2. High-Valued Pseudo-Resistance -- 7.4.3. Dynamic Range -- 7.4.4. Second Order MOSFET-C Filter -- 7.5. Experimental Results -- 7.5.1. MOSFET-C Filter -- 7.5.2. gm-C Filter -- 7.5.3. Figure of Merit -- 7.6. Conclusion -- References -- 8. Scalable Folding and Interpolating ADC Design -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Previous Art -- 8.3. Folding and Interpolating Analog-to-Digital Converter -- 8.3.1. Basics -- 8.3.2. Building Blocks and Design Tradeoffs -- 8.4. Design of FAI ADC -- 8.4.1. Circuit Topology -- 8.4.2. Ultra Low Power Resistor Ladder -- 8.4.3. Comparator Circuit -- 8.4.4. Encoder -- 8.5. Simulation and Experimental Results -- 8.5.1. Encoder -- 8.5.2. FAI ADC Performance -- 8.6. Conclusion -- References -- 9. Widely Adjustable Ring Oscillator Based ? ? ADC -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Background -- 9.2.1. Dynamic Range -- 9.2.2. Improving the Resolution -- 9.3. Performance Scalability in Ring Oscillator Based ? ? ADCs -- 9.3.1. Frequency Domain Adjustability -- 9.3.2. Dynamic Range Adjustment -- 9.4. Top Level Design -- 9.4.1. Sources of Non-Ideality -- 9.4.2. Performance Analysis -- 9.5. Circuit Design -- 9.5.1. Ring Oscillator -- 9.5.2. Logic Circuit -- 9.5.3. Current-Mode Integrator -- 9.6. High Order Modulator Design -- 9.6.1. Analysis and Modeling -- 9.6.2. Behavioral Modeling -- 9.7. Simulations and Experimental Results -- 9.8. Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- 10. Wide Tuning Range PLL -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Wide Tuning Range PLLs -- 10.2.1. Background -- 10.2.2. Wide Tuning Range CPLL -- 10.2.3. Design Issues with Wide Tune PLLs -- 10.3. Circuit Design -- 10.3.1. Proposed PLL Topology -- 10.3.2. Ring Oscillator -- 10.3.3. Frequency Divider and Phase-Frequency Detector (PFD) -- 10.3.4. Transconductor -- 10.4. Simulation and Experimental Results -- 10.5. Conclusions -- References -- 11. Conclusions -- 11.1. Main Contributions -- 11.2. Perspectives -- References -- Index. 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Contributor Bio:  Leblebici, Yusuf Yusuf Leblebici is Director and Chair Professor of the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He has previously worked as a faculty member at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at Istanbul Technical University, and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he established and directed the VLSI Design Laboratory, and also served as a project director at the New England Center for Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design. He is a co-author of more than 150 scientific articles and 3 textbooks.