FLOATING-GATE TRANSISTORS IN ANALOG AND MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGN

This book is a rich and excellent resource for§designers, who are challenged with analog and§mixed-signal VLSI design issues due to the increased§downscaling trend in the CMOS technology. Even§though such a trend empowers the designers to achieve§high element densities for VLSI circuits, it also§requires less power consumption for low-power§reconfigurable systems and imposes substantial design§challenges for analog and mixed-signal circuits. §Traditional approaches such as calibration, trimming,§and layout techniques are not cost-effective.§Furthermore, employing such techniques to improve§linearity, and circumvent noise and distortion issues§in the analog domain proves to be a daunting task due§to the lower supply voltage and increased parametric§variations as a result of downscaling in the CMOS§technology.§§This book provides a fresh and experimentally§verified design strategy based on floating-gate§transistors to cope with existing challenges and§provide tunability and reconfigurability for analog§and mixed-signal circuits. It will be useful to§practicing engineers, academic researchers, and§graduate students, who are interested in analog and§mixed-signal VLSI circuit design.