DocumentCode
1167897
Title
"Out-of-the-park home runs" - legendary digital circuits that tracked technology scaling
Author
Bernstein, Kerry
Author_Institution
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Volume
12
Issue
2
fYear
2007
Firstpage
11
Lastpage
16
Abstract
Today we enjoy today an abundance of electronic capability enabled by successive generations of technology scaling. While transistor device technologies have evolved to circumvent limitations arising from power consumption, variability, and atomistic-level physics, what has been less apparent is the circuit design response to these device changes. This article provides a glimpse at what´s happened over the years in circuit styles including Push-Pull Logic, Bootstrapping, E/D Decoding, Static Combinatorial, DCVS, Pass-Gate/T-Gate, Dynamic Domino, Body-Biasing, Sub Vt Operation.
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; Clocks; FETs; History; Logic gates; MOS devices; Switches; Transistors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1098-4232
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/N-SSC.2007.4785572
Filename
4785572
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