• DocumentCode
    3240282
  • Title

    An Analog On-Chip Adaptive Body Bias Calibration for Reducing Mismatches in Transistor Pairs

  • Author

    Bacinschi, P.B. ; Murgan, T. ; Koch, K. ; Glesner, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    10-14 March 2008
  • Firstpage
    698
  • Lastpage
    703
  • Abstract
    Device parameter variations exhibit an increasingly serious impact on analog and mixed-signal circuit behavior. In this paper, we propose a novel fully-analog on-chip adaptive body bias calibration method, for efficiently reducing mismatches in transistor pairs. We present three circuit implementations which achieve a mismatch reduction between 61% and 73% in terms of standard deviation.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MOSFET; calibration; integrated circuit reliability; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; MOSFET; analog on-chip adaptive body bias calibration; circuit implementation; device parameter variations; mismatch reduction; mixed-signal circuit; transistor pairs; CMOS technology; Calibration; Circuit testing; Delay; Digital circuits; Frequency; MOS devices; Microelectronics; System-on-a-chip; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2008. DATE '08
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-3-9810801-3-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-3-9810801-4-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DATE.2008.4484760
  • Filename
    4484760