High performance bootstrapped CMOS low to high-swing level-converter for on-chip interconnects

European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design 2007, ECCTD 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 795-798

  García, José C ^a   Montiel Nelson, Juan A ^a   Nooshabadi, Saeid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DELAY CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE AREA; CONVERTER CIRCUITS; INTERCONNECT LINES; LEVEL CONVERTER; LOW SWING; LOW-TO-HIGH; ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS; POWER DELAY PRODUCT;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 49749096755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCTD.2007.4529716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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