Transistors

On-Chip Charge-Trap-Transistor-Based Mismatch Calibration of an 8-Bit Thermometer Current-Source DAC

On-Chip Charge-Trap-Transistor-Based Mismatch Calibration of an 8-Bit Thermometer Current-Source DAC 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents an on-chip mismatch calibration technique for current-source digital-to-analog converters (DACs) using charge-trap transistors (CTTs) in 22-nm FDSOI technology. The proposed method exploits programmable threshold voltage (VTH) shifts in CTTs to locally tune the current of near-minimum-sized devices without external trimming. A compact 8-bit thermometer DAC is implemented …

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A Sub-Threshold Oscillator-Based High-Accuracy Temperature Sensor With Tolerance to Supply Fluctuation and Device Aging

A Sub-Threshold Oscillator-Based High-Accuracy Temperature Sensor With Tolerance to Supply Fluctuation and Device Aging 150 150

Abstract:

Accurate, low-power, and compact temperature sensors are demanded in a wide range of biomedical, environmental, and industrial sensing applications. This article presents an accurate and precise CMOS temperature sensor based on a sub-threshold ring oscillator (RO) in 180 nm. The sensing core employs a five-stage super cut-off contention-free (SCCF) delay cell …

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A Standalone-in-Memory Voltage Crossover-Based Assist Switching Circuit for Reliable and Efficient Process Tracking Memory Vmin Improvement in Intel 18A-RibbonFET Technology

A Standalone-in-Memory Voltage Crossover-Based Assist Switching Circuit for Reliable and Efficient Process Tracking Memory Vmin Improvement in Intel 18A-RibbonFET Technology 150 150

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Advanced CMOS memory requires voltage biasing assist techniques to achieve low operating voltages (Vmin), which must be deactivated at higher voltages for high electric field reliability. Centralized power management unit (PMU) control signals face timing synchronization and process tracking challenges when distributed across cores to activate assist circuits in various …

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Dual-Band Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for CB and HF RFID Bands in a Flexible IGZO Technology

Dual-Band Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for CB and HF RFID Bands in a Flexible IGZO Technology 150 150

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In this work, a cross-coupled voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for the high frequency RFID and citizen bands (CBs) is investigated, and implemented on a flexible Indium gallium zinc oxide thin film transistor (TFT) technology. To circumvent the challenges of integrating passive components in this frequency range and minimize the circuit’s …

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A Bidirectional Neuromodulation Chipset With Algorithm-Aware AFE Optimization and High-Voltage-Compliant Stimulation

A Bidirectional Neuromodulation Chipset With Algorithm-Aware AFE Optimization and High-Voltage-Compliant Stimulation 150 150

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This work presents a bidirectional neuromodulation chipset with 64-channel neural analog front-end (AFE), and a four-channel current stimulator. The chipset employs a heterogeneous architecture, combining a 28-nm low-voltage (LV) CMOS process for the AFE and the digital backend (DBE) to improve area and power efficiency, with a 180-nm high-voltage (HV) …

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A 0.015-mm2 0.5-V Synthesizable Hybrid PLL With Multi-Phase Linear Proportional-Gain Paths

A 0.015-mm2 0.5-V Synthesizable Hybrid PLL With Multi-Phase Linear Proportional-Gain Paths 150 150

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This brief presents a 0.015-mm2 0.5-V synthesizable hybrid phase locked loop (PLL). All blocks including an analog proportional-gain path can be logically or physically synthesized with digital cells and hardware languages. To mitigate the mismatch and common-mode fluctuation problems of a voltage-mode phase detector, multi-phase proportional-gain paths are designed for …

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220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS

220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS 150 150

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This letter presents a broadband $G$ -band power amplifier (PA) designed in a 130-nm silicon-germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. Unlike dual-band matching and staggered tuning techniques to obtain large operation bandwidth (BW), we propose a common broadband amplification stage in this work for its flexibility. In each stage, inductive …

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A 298–334-GHz Scalable Injection-Locked Phased-Array Radiator With Second-Subharmonic-Termination-Assisted Waveform Formulation for Power Enhancement

A 298–334-GHz Scalable Injection-Locked Phased-Array Radiator With Second-Subharmonic-Termination-Assisted Waveform Formulation for Power Enhancement 150 150

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This article introduces an injection-locked $4\times 2$ phased-array radiator featuring scalability in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The system architecture is constructed by sequentially cascading four identical phase-shifting and frequency-quadrupling (PSFQ) elements in a chain-like configuration and then cohering two such chains, thereby achieving global frequency synchronization. Particularly, phase shifting and …

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A 14-b Energy-Efficient BW/Power Scalable CTDSM With a Frequency-Controlled Current Source

A 14-b Energy-Efficient BW/Power Scalable CTDSM With a Frequency-Controlled Current Source 150 150

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This work presents a 14-bit energy-efficient bandwidth (BW)/power scalable continuous-time delta–sigma modulator (CTDSM) for sensor interfaces in IoT applications. To ensure low noise for small input signals and achieve BW/power scalability, it is built around Gm-C integrators biased via a linear frequency-controlled current source (FCCS). The FCCS …

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