Title :
Advances in Ultra-Low-Voltage Design
Author :
Kwong, Joyce ; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jyskwong@mit.edu
Abstract :
The idea of exploiting weak-inversion operation for low power, pioneered by Dr. Eric Vittoz in the 1960´s, has led to many recent advances in sub-threshold circuit design, described in this paper by MIT´s Anantha Chandrakasan and Joyce Kwong. In the near future, exciting new applications such as medical monitoring, toxic gas sensors and next-generation portable video gadgets in a number of systems will be powered by energy scavenging technologies that will require electronic circuits to operate with the utmost energy efficiency.
Keywords :
Capacitors; Converters; Delay; Logic gates; Random access memory; Switches; Voltage control;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/N-SSC.2008.4785819
