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

2007 IEEE North-East Workshop on Circuits and Systems, NEWCAS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 566-569

  García, José C ^a   Montiel Nelson, Juan A ^a   Navarro, H ^a   Sosa, J ^a   Nooshabadi, Saeid ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ACTIVE AREAS; CAPACITIVE LOADS; ENERGY-DELAY-PRODUCT; FULL-SWING; GLOBAL INTERCONNECTS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE CMOS; LEVEL CONVERTERS; LOW SWING; ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS; POWER-DELAY PRODUCTS; SIGNAL LEVELS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 50049111351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2007.4487974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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