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Design principles for low-voltage low-power analog integrated circuits

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In this paper it is argued that there are good reasons to choose current as the information-carrying quantity in the case of low-voltage low-power design constraints. This paper focuses on the influence of the transfer quality on that choice. To obtain power-efficient transfer quality, indirect feedback is shown to be a good alternative to traditional feedback techniques.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electronics Research Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, the Netherlands

    Wouter A. Serdijn, Albert C. Van Der Woerd, Arthur H. M. Van Roermund & Jan Davidse

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Serdijn, W.A., Van Der Woerd, A.C., Van Roermund, A.H.M. et al. Design principles for low-voltage low-power analog integrated circuits. Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 8, 115–120 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239382

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