Ultra-low power VLSI circuit design demystified and explained: A tutorial

M Alioto - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the state of the art in ultra-low power (ULP) VLSI design is presented within a
unitary framework for the first time. A few general principles are first introduced to gain an …

Effect of gate engineering in double-gate MOSFETs for analog/RF applications

A Sarkar, AK Das, S De, CK Sarkar - Microelectronics Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
This work uncovers the potential benefit of fully-depleted short-channel triple-material
double-gate (TM-DG) SOI MOSFET in the context of RF and analog performance …

Interests and limitations of technology scaling for subthreshold logic

D Bol, R Ambroise, D Flandre… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subthreshold logic is an efficient technique to achieve ultralow energy per operation for low-
to-medium throughput applications. In this paper, the interests and limitations of technology …

Device and Circuit Design Challenges in the Digital Subthreshold Region for Ultralow‐Power Applications

R Vaddi, S Dasgupta, RP Agarwal - VLSI Design, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, subthreshold operation has gained a lot of attention due to ultra low‐power
consumption in applications requiring low to medium performance. It has also been shown …

Utilizing reverse short channel effect for optimal subthreshold circuit design

TH Kim, H Eom, J Keane, C Kim - … on Low power electronics and design, 2006 - dl.acm.org
The impact of the Reverse Short Channel Effect (RSCE) on device current is stronger in the
subthreshold region due to the reduced Drain-Induced-Barrier-Lowering (DIBL) and the …

Device and circuit co-design robustness studies in the subthreshold logic for ultralow-power applications for 32 nm CMOS

R Vaddi, S Dasgupta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital circuits operating in a subthreshold region have gained wide interest due to their
suitability for applications requiring ultralow power consumption with low-to-medium …

Nanometer device scaling in subthreshold logic and SRAM

S Hanson, M Seok, D Sylvester… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subthreshold circuit design is promising for future ultralow-energy sensor applications as
well as highly parallel high-performance processing. Device scaling has the potential to …

Impact of halo do** on the subthreshold performance of deep-submicrometer CMOS devices and circuits for ultralow power analog/mixed-signal applications

S Chakraborty, A Mallik, CK Sarkar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In addition to its attractiveness for ultralow power applications, analog CMOS circuits based
on the subthreshold operation of the devices are known to have significantly higher gain as …

Circuit design advances for wireless sensing applications

G Chen, S Hanson, D Blaauw… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Miniature wireless sensors with long lifetimes enable new applications for medical
diagnosis, infrastructure monitoring, military surveillance, and environmental sensing among …

Analog and RF performance investigation of cylindrical surrounding-gate MOSFET with an analytical pseudo-2D model

A Sarkar, S De, A Dey, CK Sarkar - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2012 - Springer
We report a systematic, quantitative investigation of analog and RF performance of
cylindrical surrounding-gate (SRG) silicon MOSFET. To derive the model, a pseudo-two …