Kobayashi et al., 2018 - Google Patents

A 350-mV, under-200-ppm allan deviation floor gate-leakage-based timer using an amplifier-less replica-bias switching technique in 55-nm DDC CMOS

Kobayashi et al., 2018

Document ID
12278254258232031181
Author
Kobayashi A
Nishio Y
Hayashi K
Nakazato K
Niitsu K
Publication year
Publication venue
2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)

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This paper presents a gate-leakage-based timer using an amplifier-less replica-bias switching technique that can realize stable and low-voltage operation with logic circuits based architecture. To generate stable oscillation frequency in low power operation, the …
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
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