Tunable and reconfigurable circuits using floating-gate transistors

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. This book will be useful to practicing engineers, academic researchers, and graduate students.

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.