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Bradley Minch

2012

Threshold voltage

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Highly Linear, Wide-Dynamic-Range Multiple-Input Translinear Element Networks, Kofi Odame, Eric Mcdonald, Bradley Minch Jul 2012

Highly Linear, Wide-Dynamic-Range Multiple-Input Translinear Element Networks, Kofi Odame, Eric Mcdonald, Bradley Minch

Bradley Minch

In this paper, we propose a modification to the class of circuits known as multiple input translinear element (MITE) networks. Our proposed modification leads to a MITE network that is free from certain nonidealities encountered in previous implementations. Further, the new MITE network described here readily accommodates the use of bipolar junction transistors in the input and output stages, thus implying a significantly wider dynamic range than we can achieve using subthreshold MOSFETs.


Low Voltage And Performance Tunable Cmos Circuit Design Using Independently Driven Double Gate Mosfets, Arvind Kumar, Bradley Minch, Sandip Tiwari Jul 2012

Low Voltage And Performance Tunable Cmos Circuit Design Using Independently Driven Double Gate Mosfets, Arvind Kumar, Bradley Minch, Sandip Tiwari

Bradley Minch

Independently driven double-gate MOSFETs (DGFETs) facilitate design of analog circuits under digital logic constraints and provide in-circuit parameter adaptability through threshold voltage control. Threshold voltagetuning is achieved by biasing one of the two gates where as strong coupling of surface potentials at the two interfaces provides a low resistance feedback path. The geometry also allows a back-floating gate NVRAM structure with superior scalability and floating gate related analog applications without any read disturbance. This paper gives examples across breadth of circuits where this tunability is exploited.