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6 Frequently Asked Questions about “Low voltage capacitor processing”
Can low-voltage CMOS technology be used for a switch-capacitor converter?
Low-voltage design techniques for the switched-capacitor building blocks have been demonstrated enabling the implementation of larger applications such as sample-and-holds, filters, and data converters. In particular, a 1.5 V, 10-bit, 14.3 MS/s, 36 mW pipeline analog-to-digital converter was implemented in a 0.6 m CMOS technology.
What CMOS technology is used for low-voltage circuits?
AS A DEMONSTRATION of the low-voltage circuit techniques described in the previous chapters, a 1.5V, 10-bit, 14.3MS/s analog-to-digitalconverter prototype was implemented in a 0.5 m CMOS technology. This chapter dis-cusses specific implementation details including schematics and layout issues.
Are MOS device reliability issues relevant to switched-capacitor circuits?
identifying the MOS device reliability issues that are relevant to switched-capacitor circuits, (2) introduction of a new bootstrap technique for operating MOS transmission gates on a low voltage supply without significantly degrading device lifetime, (3) development of low-voltage opamp design techniques.
What is a switched-capacitor circuit?
Consider the typical switched-capacitor circuit shown in figure 5.1. It consists of a class A, operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) operating from a sup-ply voltage with a static bias current . The OTA is configured with capacitive negative feedback and drives a fixed capacitive load.
Are scalable switched capacitor DC-DC converters suitable for digital CMOS processes?
These energy processing circuits must maintain high efficiency and reduce component count for the final solution to be attractive from an energy, size and cost perspective. The first part of this work focuses on the development of on-chip voltage scalable switched capacitor DC-DC converters in digital CMOS processes.
Is a comparator a switched-capacitor element?
Comparators are not strictly considered switched-capacitor elements. They, how-ever, often employ switched-capacitor techniques and are used in switched-capacitor applications such as pipeline analog-to-digital converters and sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters.