• DocumentCode
    1482616
  • Title

    Multiemitter BiCMOS logic circuit family

  • Author

    Boudon, Gerard ; Mollier, Pierre ; Ong, Ieng ; Nuez, Jean-paul ; Mauchauffee, Daniel ; Plassat, Dominique ; Simonet, Jean-Louis ; Wallart, Frank

  • Author_Institution
    IBM France Component Dev. Lab., Corbeil-Essonnes, France
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    665
  • Lastpage
    669
  • Abstract
    A new multiemitter BiCMOS circuit using half-micrometer BiCMOS technology with a 3.6-V supply provides 85 % improvement in delay over CMOS design and 40 % improvement over conventional BiCMOS. This benefit is demonstrated in a 64-b carry look-ahead adder where most of the gates have a high number of inputs. A complete logic circuit family based on the multiemitter (ME) concept is proposed in a gate-array structure
  • Keywords
    BIMOS integrated circuits; adders; carry logic; integrated logic circuits; logic arrays; 3.6 V; carry look-ahead adder; gate-array structure; logic circuit family; multiemitter BiCMOS circuit; Adders; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Delay; Logic arrays; Logic circuits; Power dissipation; Power supplies; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4.75071
  • Filename
    75071