FLOATING-GATE TRANSISTORS IN ANALOG AND MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGN

This book is a rich and excellent resource for
designers, who are challenged with analog and
mixed-signal VLSI design issues due to the increased
downscaling trend in the CMOS technology. Even
though such a trend empowers the designers to achieve
high element densities for VLSI circuits, it also
requires less power consumption for low-power
reconfigurable systems and imposes substantial design
challenges for analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Traditional approaches such as calibration, trimming,
and layout techniques are not cost-effective.
Furthermore, employing such techniques to improve
linearity, and circumvent noise and distortion issues
in the analog domain proves to be a daunting task due
to the lower supply voltage and increased parametric
variations as a result of downscaling in the CMOS
technology.

This book provides a fresh and experimentally
verified design strategy based on floating-gate
transistors to cope with existing challenges and
provide tunability and reconfigurability for analog
and mixed-signal circuits. It will be useful to
practicing engineers, academic researchers, and
graduate students, who are interested in analog and
mixed-signal VLSI circuit design.

Autorentext

Erhan Ozalevli, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering atGeorgia Institute of Technology. Analog IC Designer at TexasInstruments, Dallas, TX.Paul Hasler, PhD in Computation and Neural systems at theCalifornia Institute of Technology. Associate Professor atGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Klappentext

This book is a rich and excellent resource fordesigners, who are challenged with analog andmixed-signal VLSI design issues due to the increaseddownscaling trend in the CMOS technology. Eventhough such a trend empowers the designers to achievehigh element densities for VLSI circuits, it alsorequires less power consumption for low-powerreconfigurable systems and imposes substantial designchallenges for analog and mixed-signal circuits. Traditional approaches such as calibration, trimming,and layout techniques are not cost-effective.Furthermore, employing such techniques to improvelinearity, and circumvent noise and distortion issuesin the analog domain proves to be a daunting task dueto the lower supply voltage and increased parametricvariations as a result of downscaling in the CMOStechnology.This book provides a fresh and experimentallyverified design strategy based on floating-gatetransistors to cope with existing challenges andprovide tunability and reconfigurability for analogand mixed-signal circuits. It will be useful topracticing engineers, academic researchers, andgraduate students, who are interested in analog andmixed-signal VLSI circuit design.