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Electrical and Electronics

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2005

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Low-Voltage Analog Circuit Design Using The Adaptively Biased Body-Driven Circuit Technique, Stephen Christopher Terry Aug 2005

Low-Voltage Analog Circuit Design Using The Adaptively Biased Body-Driven Circuit Technique, Stephen Christopher Terry

Doctoral Dissertations

The scaling of MOSFET dimensions and power supply voltage, in conjunction with an increase in system- and circuit-level performance requirements, are the most important factors driving the development of new technologies and design techniques for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Though scaling has been a fact of life for analog circuit designers for many years, the approaching 1-V and sub-1-V power supplies, combined with applications that have increasingly divergent technology requirements, means that the analog and mixed-signal IC designs of the future will probably look quite different from those of the past. Foremost among the challenges that analog designers will …