The focus of attention in digital VLSI has moved away from low-level circuit details since the advent of HDL synthesis and virtual components. Library developers are the only ones who face ...

A schematic view of the interfaces to ZenTime is shown in Figure 4 ... Due to its ability to optimize designs at the transistor level, hybrid optimization holds the promise to improve other key ...

This circuit uses a P-FET – to turn the power on, open the FET by bringing the GATE signal down to ground level, and to switch ... you can add a NPN transistor section as shown – this inverts ...

Adel Sedra, University of Waterloo 'The complex interdependencies in wireline circuits are elucidated in this book by linking system-level aspects with rigorous transistor-level analyses. It delivers ...

Designs at the logic level of abstraction, describe a digital circuit in terms of primitive logic functions such as or, and nor, etc., and allow for the nets interconnecting the logic functions to ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

Abstract— Today’s on-chip Analog/Mixed-Signal and RF (A/RF) systems have reached a limit of size and complexity where transistor-level SPICE and FastSPICE simulation approaches cannot deliver a ...

Adel Sedra, University of Waterloo ‘The complex interdependencies in wireline circuits are elucidated in this book by linking system-level aspects with rigorous transistor-level analyses. It delivers ...

Prior knowledge needed: ECEA 5630 Semiconductor Physics, ECEA 5631 Diode Junction and Metal Semiconductor Contact, Understanding of active semiconductor devices, basic electronics, Circuits ...