A low-voltage processor for sensing applications with picowatt standby mode

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1145-1155

  Hanson, Scott ^a   Seok, Mingoo ^a   Lin, Yu Shiang ^a,b   Foo, ZhiYoong ^a   Kim, Daeyeon ^a   Lee, Yoonmyung ^a   Liu, Nurrachman ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^a   Blaauw Dr , David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Low voltage; Ultra low leakage; Ultra low power

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

LOW VOLTAGE; LOW-VOLTAGE OPERATIONS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; POWER CONSUMPTION; RECENT PROGRESS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; STANDBY MODES; STANDBY POWER; TEST CHIPS; ULTRA-LOW LEAKAGE; ULTRA-LOW POWER; ULTRA-LOW-POWER CIRCUITS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 63449098455     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2014205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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