International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits

ANALOG RADIO FREQUENCY CIRCUITS DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES IN NANOSCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

  1. Tim Naute ✉

Abstract

The evolution of the nanoscale complementary metal oxide semi-conductors led to many issues in analog design. Gate-leakage mismatches exceeded tolerances which require active and alternative techniques of cancellation and architectures giving rise to the low voltage techniques. Hence, functionalities are been shifted to the digital domains which also include parts of both analog and digital Radio Frequency circuits and imperfections in them.

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