Reversed Temperature-Dependent Propagation Delay Characteristics in Nanometer CMOS Circuits

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1078-1082

  Kumar, Ranjith ^a   Kursun, Volkan ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

High temperature speed; supply voltage scaling; temperature variations

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SPEED; SUPPLY VOLTAGE SCALING; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33750596850     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.882218     Document Type: Article

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