• 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