Title :
Asynchronous analogue-to-digital converter for single-electron circuits
Author :
Ahn, Su Jin ; Kim, Dae Mann
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea
fDate :
1/22/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An analogue-to-digital conversion scheme based on the e-periodic transfer characteristics of an SET inverter is proposed. The authors demonstrate the 4 bit analogue-to-digital converter performance using Monte-Carlo simulation in which an SET inverter implements a binary quantiser and encoder for one significant bit. This scheme can be easily extended to higher order bits
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; analogue-digital conversion; asynchronous circuits; logic gates; quantisation (signal); single electron transistors; 4 bit; Monte-Carlo simulation; SET inverter; asynchronous analogue-to-digital converter; binary quantiser; e-periodic transfer characteristics; higher order bits; single-electron circuits;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980157
