• DocumentCode
    285590
  • Title

    An adjustable threshold MOSFET

  • Author

    Tsay, Suan-Wei ; Newcomb, Robert W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    10-13 May 1992
  • Firstpage
    1270
  • Abstract
    A circuit which is equivalent to a voltage adjustable threshold MOSFET is presented. This adjustable threshold MOSFET uses the voltage adder from a neural arithmetic unit which is based on the describing equations of the neural chemical pools that occur in biological neurons. The threshold voltage of this adjustable threshold MOSFET is linearly modulated by an external control voltage. The circuits used here are all composed of MOS transistors and no resistor is used to convert current to voltage. Thus, these circuits will only occupy a small die area and are very suitable for VLSI realizations
  • Keywords
    MOS integrated circuits; VLSI; insulated gate field effect transistors; neural nets; MOS transistors; MOSFET; VLSI realizations; adaptive weight; linearly modulated; neural arithmetic unit; voltage adder; voltage adjustable threshold; Adders; Arithmetic; Chemicals; Equations; MOSFET circuits; Neurons; Resistors; Threshold voltage; Very large scale integration; Voltage control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 1992. ISCAS '92. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0593-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.1992.230274
  • Filename
    230274