Field emission air-channel (FEAC) devices can work under atmospheric pressure with a low operation voltage when the electron channel is far less than the mean free path (MFP) in the air, thereby making them a practical component in circuits. Forward...
In this paper, a novel latch-adder based multiplier design, targeting low voltage and low power IoT applications is presented. It employs a semi-dynamic (dynamic circuit with static keeper circuit) full adder design which efficiently incorporates the...
Beam injection systems in hadron colliders require kickers generating ±50 kV peak voltages into a 50 Ω impedance, with peak currents of 1000 A and sub-10 ns rise and fall times. This paper presents a novel high-voltage pulse power genera...
Adders are constituted as the fundamental blocks of arithmetic circuits and are considered important for computation devices. Approximate computing has become a popular and developing area, promising to provide energy-efficient circuits with low powe...
This paper proposes a 16 bit subthreshold adder design using bootstrapped sense amplifier-based pass transistor logic (bootstrapped SAPTL) to overcome serious performance degradation and enhance the immunity to process variations in the subthreshold...
Energy consumption is one of the main barriers to current high-performance designs. Moreover, the increased variability experienced in advanced process technologies implies further timing yield concerns and therefore intensifies this obstacle. Thus,...
Currently, pulsed adders are used as pulsed voltage sources maturely. However, their use as pulsed current sources is significantly limited due to circuit impedance and the characteristics of power devices. This paper presents a simple yet effective...
The design of the Ternary Full Adders (TFA) employing Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFET) has been widely presented in the literature. To obtain the optimal design of these ternary adders, we propose two new different designs, TFA1 with...
Adder is an important datapath unit of a general-purpose microprocessor or a digital signal processor. In the nanoelectronics era, the design of an adder that is modular and which can withstand variations in process, voltage and temperature are of in...
Addition is a fundamental operation in microprocessing and digital signal processing hardware, which is physically realized using an adder. The carry-lookahead adder (CLA) and the carry-select adder (CSLA) are two popular high-speed, low-power adder...
Today’s technology demands compact, portable, fast, and energy-efficient devices. One approach to making energy-efficient devices is an in-memory computation that addresses the memory bottleneck issues of the present computing system by utilizi...
The capability of multiple valued logic (MVL) circuits to achieve higher storage density when compared to that of existing binary circuits is highly impressive. Recently, MVL circuits have attracted significant attention for the design of digital sys...
Due to the difficulties associated with scaling of silicon transistors, various technologies beyond binary logic processing are actively being investigated. Ternary logic circuit implementation with carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFETs)...
In this paper, a wide dynamic range RMS power detector with an operating frequency from 24 GHz to 35 GHz mm-wave frequency is presented. The power detector is fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process. It is composed of a power detector unit, a radio freque...
Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) is one of the most commonly used operations in modern computing systems due to its use in matrix multiplication, signal processing, and in new applications such as machine learning and deep neural networks. Ternary number sy...
With the increasing challenges facing silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) has received extensive attention in overcoming the bottleneck. NVM and computing-in-memory (CiM) architecture...
Fault diagnosis in power converters is essential for keeping electrical systems stable, efficient and long-lasting. Park’s Vector Transform, discrete wavelet transform, Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic and other methods are used to diagno...
In this paper, we analyze the variability of III-V homojunction tunnel FET (TFET) and FinFET devices and 32-bit carry-lookahead adder (CLA) circuit operating in near-threshold region. The impacts of the most severe intrinsic device variations includ...
Viability of a fractional-order proportional–integral–derivative (PID) approximation to regulate voltage in buck–boost converters is investigated. The converter applications range not only to high-power ones but also in micro/nano-scale systems from...
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As digital circuit design continues to evolve due to progress of semiconductor processes well into the sub 100 nm range, clocked architectures face limitations in a number of cases where clockless asynchronous architectures generate less noise and pr...
Hybrid magnetic tunnel junction/complementary metal oxide semiconductor (MTJ/CMOS) circuits based on in-memory-computation (IMC) architecture is considered as the next-generation candidate for the digital integrated circuits. However, the energy cons...
Analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) using oversampling technology and the Σ-∆ modulation mechanism are widely applied in digital audio systems. This paper presents an audio modulator with high accuracy and low power consumption by using a disc...
Multilevel inverters are a type of power electronic circuit that converts direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) for use in high-voltage and high-power applications. Many recent studies on multilevel inverters have used field-programmable ga...