Driving fully-adiabatic logic circuits using custom high-Q MEMS resonators

Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 5-11

  Anantharam, Venkiteswaran ^a   He, Maojiao ^a   Natarajan, Krishna ^a   Xie, Huikai ^a   Frank, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic circuits; Low power design; MEMS; Resonators; Ultra low power

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC CIRCUITS; LOW-POWER DESIGNS; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; RESONATORS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSISTORS;

LOGIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 12744263405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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