Physical limitations of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors (CMOS) technology at nanoscale and high cost of lithography have provided the platform for creating Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA)-based hardware. The QCA is a new technology that promises smaller, cheaper and faster electronic circuits, and has been regarded as an effective solution for scalability problems in CMOS technolog...

this paper presents a design of an uwb downconversion integrated cmos resistive ring mixer with linear voltage regulator (lvr), to supply required biasing voltages for the mixer section. the designed mixer circuit has been optimized for using in heart rate extraction system with microwave doppler radar at 2.4ghz frequency. this mixer needs 2 dc bias voltages equal to 0.5 and 1 volts for its bes...

An optical receiver using a CMOS-compatible avalanche photodetector (CMOS-APD) is demonstrated. The CMOS-APD is fabricated with 0.18 μm standard CMOS technology and the optical receiver is implemented by using the CMOS-APD and a transimpedance amplifier on a board. The optical receiver can detect 6.25-Gb/s data with the help of the series inductive peaking effect.

This paper compares two different logic styles based on 45 nm technology for implementing logic gates of upto two inputs in terms of their layout area, delay and power dissipation. The XOR gate has been implemented & designed using CMOS & Pass Transistor logic on 45 nm technology .The schematic of proposed gate has been designed & simulated by using DSCH3& its equivalent layout has been develop...

This paper examines the apparent limits, possible extensions, and applications of CMOS technology in the nanometer regime. Starting from device scaling theory and current industry projections, we analyze the achievable performance and possible limits of CMOS technology from the point of view of device physics, device technology, and power consumption. Various possible extensions to the basic lo...

The 2010 Symposium on VLSI Technology will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 14-17, 2010. The Technology meeting begins with a short course for the VLSI Technology on June 14 entitled “Emerging Logic and Memory Technologies for VLSI Implementation”. There will be 22 technology sessions in the conference including a plenary session on the opening day of the Symposi...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is an advanced technology that has been designed as complementary technology to classic Bluetooth and also it is the lowest possible power wireless technology that can be designed and built. This paper provides an overview of bluetooth low energy technology and utilization of CMOS Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for BLE applications. The aim of this paper is review and comp...

of activity in the area of CMOS image sensors has taken place. Up until recently, the dominant, and nearly the only, solid-state image sensor technology was the charge-coupled device (CCD). However, most microprocessors, logic circuits, ASICs, and memory circuits are based on CMOS technology. Now CMOS can be used for image sensors in a rapidly expanding sphere of applications. Several important...