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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Highly Reliable Multiple-Valued Current-Mode Comparator Based on Active-Load Dual-Rail Operation

Masatomo MIURA, Takahiro HANYU

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In this paper, a multiple-valued current-mode (MVCM) circuit based on active-load dual-rail differential logic is proposed for a high-performance arithmetic VLSI system with crosstalk-noise immunity. The use of dual-rail complementary differential-pair circuits (DPCs), whose outputs are summed up by wiring makes it possible to reduce the common-mode noise, and yet enhance the switching speed. By using the diode-connected cross-coupled PMOS active loads, the rapid transition of switching in the DPC is relaxed appropriately, which can also eliminate spiked input noise. It is demonstrated that the noise reduction ratio and the switching delay of the proposed MVCM circuit in a 90 nm CMOS technology is superior to those of the corresponding ordinary implementation.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E91-C No.4 pp.589-594
Publication Date
2008/04/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1093/ietele/e91-c.4.589
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Technologies in Digital LSIs and Memories)
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