IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 1972 · 23 citations · 1 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringLow-power DesignMicroelectronicsSemiconductor DevicesCmos Circuit DesignCoupled CircuitsDigital Integrated Circuit DesignIntegrated Circuit DesignLow-power Digital Circuit DesignMos CapacitorsCmos Digital Circuit DesignDigital Switching CircuitsLow-power Cmos DesignPower ConsumptionPower Consumption OptimizationThreshold Voltage ControlThreshold Voltage Extraction
Threshold losses reduce speed and increase power consumption of MOS digital circuits. A method to eliminate these losses is described. This is accomplished by the application of bootstrapping, in which a temporarily isolated circuit node is capacitatively coupled to the input voltage. The advantages of a MOS varactor element and its use for the coupling capacitor are described.
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