This work presents two current-mode integrated circuits designed for sensor signal preprocessing in embedded systems. The proposed circuits have been designed to provide good signal transfer and fulfill their function, while minimizing the load effects due to building complex conditioning architectures. The processing architecture based on the proposed building blocks can be reconfigured throug...

After analyzing the limitations of the traditional description of CMOS circuits at the gate level, this paper introduces the notions of switching and signal variables for describing the switching states of MOS transistors and signals in CMOS circuits, respectively. Two connection operations for describing the interaction between MOS transistors and signals and a new description for CMOS circuit...

The recent progress is reviewed and future prospects of silicon photonics in next generation communication and computing systems are probed. Leveraging the many-billion-dollar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) industry, silicon photonics has promising prospects for realising very large-scale electronic and photonic integrated circuits with thousands of optical components and millio...

Magnetoelectronic devices, which combine ferromagnetic materials with conventional silicon structures, o er the potential to add non-volatile storage to electronic systems, eliminating their vulnerability to data loss due to power supply interruptions. We present a set of circuits, based on the Hybrid Hall E ect device, that combine logic with non-volatile storage. These circuits can be con gur...

CMOS-MEMS-based vibro-impact devices that utilize impact-induced nonlinear dynamics have been shown to yield unique and unprecedented functionalities with on-chip integration capability. For example, a 0.35-µm CMOS-based capacitively transduced comb-driven folded-beam resonant switch has integrated backend circuits demonstrate zero-quiescent power wireless receiver operating at the low-frequenc...

The analysis of effective expectations on emerging nanotechnologies, like Nano-magnetic Logic, is currently a difficult task. The lack of tools that enable the design at logic and physical level of nano-circuits does not allow to inspect properties that can be derived only considering circuits of reasonable complexity. We present results of an unprecedented Place & Route engine for Nano-magneti...

This paper presents the design of a Current-toVoltage (I−V) and Voltage-to-Current (V−I) converters for use in current-mode analog integrated circuits are described. The proposed I−V converter and V-I Converter has high linear range. The circuit uses MOS transistors in linear and saturation regions to produce an output current linearly related to the input voltage. Both circuits have been imple...

Abstract: Dynamic Domino logic circuits are widely used in modern digital VLSI circuits. Because it is simple to implement, low cost designs in CMOS Domino logic are presented. Compared to static CMOS logic, dynamic logic offers good performance. Wide fan-in logic such as domino circuits is used in high-performance applications. Domino gates typically consume higher dynamic switching and leakag...

Introduction: On-chip integrated circuits often need to be tunable to correct for process or temperature variations. However, unpredictable or unknown device characteristics make it hard to implement tunable linear circuits. In modern submicron CMOS technologies, the transistor characteristics can deviate significantly from the ideal behaviour. In this Letter a continuously tunable current divi...

In this paper an adaptive evolutionary algorithm (AEA) for high-level synthesis, resulting in reduction of the power dissipation in CMOS circuits is presented. It enables us to design contemporary electronic circuits/systems with minimisation of the peak and average power consumption, which leads to reduction of the peak and average temperature of the designed chip. Therefore, the reliability o...