Design of Low-Voltage Digital Building Blocks and ADCs for Energy-Efficient Systems

Author

Sinangil, Mahmut E. ; Yip, Marcus ; Qazi, Masood ; Rithe, Rahul ; Kwong, Joyce ; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Technol. Labs., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

59

Issue

9

fYear

2012

Firstpage

533

Lastpage

537

Abstract

Increasing number of energy-limited applications continue to drive the demand for designing systems with high energy efficiency. This tutorial covers the main building blocks of a system implementation including digital logic, embedded memories, and analog-to-digital converters and describes the challenges and solutions to designing these blocks for low-voltage operation.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; embedded systems; energy conservation; integrated circuit design; logic circuits; low-power electronics; semiconductor storage; ADC; analog-to-digital converters; digital logic; embedded memories; energy efficiency; energy-efficient systems; energy-limited applications; low-voltage digital building blocks; low-voltage operation; Computer architecture; Delay; Low voltage; Random access memory; Transistors; Analog circuits; analog-to-digital converter (ADC); digital circuits; digital signal processor (DSP); embedded memory; energy efficiency; low power; low voltage; mixed signal; static random-access memory (SRAM); voltage scaling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-7747

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSII.2012.2208675

Filename

6272333