Multi-Gigahertz sampling rate Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) with 5-8 bits resolution are used in many signal communication applications. Unfortunately, the performance of the high speed ADC is limited by the timing accuracy of the sampling clock. A small sampling uncertainty can cause a large error in the sampled voltage and result...
Delay insensitive asynchronous circuitry provides significant advantages with
respect to substrate noise due to localized switching. The differences between the
substrate noise from NULL Convention Logic (NCL) and traditional Clocked
Boolean Logic (CBL) are described and analyzed based on measured results. A test chip fabricated in the TSMC 0.25 um...
Scaling of CMOS technology has progressed relentlessly for the past several
decades. In order for this unprecedented scaling to benefit the performance of
large digital systems, the communication bandwidth between integrated circuits
(ICs) must scale accordingly. However, interconnect technology does not scale as
aggressively, making communication between chips the major...
Recent advances in high density low cost RF and microwave three dimensional
integration technologies using LTCC(Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics),
laminate and other multilayer hybrid and integrated circuits have increased interest
in the design of embedded passive components such as inductors, capacitors and
filters. The purpose of this study is to...
A new circuit technique called Folded Source Coupled Logic (FSCL) has been developed
to implement the digital section of mixed-signal IC applications. This FSCL circuit technique
offers the advantage of low overlap current spikes during the switching transitions
of conventional CMOS gates. This overlap current spike has become one of...
Power reduction can be achieved at many different levels, such as architecture, algorithm, logic, and transistor levels in circuit design. This thesis focuses on low power scheduling at the algorithm level. We present a latency-constrained scheduling and a latency and resource constrained scheduling, which minimize power consumption for the resources...
This research was motivated by the use of multi-track feeders in the printed
circuit board (PCB) assembly. In a low volume, high mix production environment,
setup time is usually considered more important than processing time. Implementation
of multi-track feeders not only increases the capacity of the surface mount
machines but...
In recent years, the rapidly growth of CMOS technology has evolved towards submicron and deep-submicron features. Due to smaller device sizes, and significant demand for low-power designs, the maximum allowable power supply voltage is restricted. So far, two solutions; clock boosting and switched opamp schemes have been proposed. The material...