Circuit Design for Modern Applications

This book offers a clear exploration of cutting-edge semiconductor circuit technologies and their practical applications. It covers topics like advanced transistor design, low-power consumption techniques, and high-performance circuit design.

Circuit Design for Modern Applications explores the recent innovations in semiconductor technology. Bandgap reference circuits, quad model transistors, voltagecontrolled oscillators, LDO regulators, power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, operational amplifiers, low-power CNTFET-based quaternary multipliers, and STT MRAM-based cache memory for multicore systems are discussed. It points out the difficulties in designing CMOS analog and RF circuits for mmWave applications and looks into newly developed field-effect transistors for an alternate solution. Innovative devices such as III-V material-based HEMTs, and junctionless FETs are discussed. The book also looks at creative ways to improve circuit performance and energy efficiency, which is a useful resource for academics, researchers, and industry experts working in semiconductors.

This book will help the readers to stay on the cutting edge of contemporary circuit design technologies, covering various topics from fundamental circuit design to high-performance circuits.

A. Andrew Roobert is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. He completed his Ph.D. degree in RFIC Design at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, M.E. degree in VLSI Design at Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, and B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Engineering College Kovilpatti. His research interests include RFIC Design, LNA Design, Circuit optimization, Low power VLSI Design, Physical Design, VLSI architecture design, electronic system design and wireless communication.

M. Venkatesh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He received his B.E degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SACS MAVMM Engineering College, Madurai (2013), M.E degree in VLSI Design from P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul (2015), and completed his Ph.D. in Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai on July (2020). His research interests include analytical modeling and simulation of Nanoscale SOI MOSFETs, Nanowire Transistors, HEMTs, Tunnel FET and Quantum Effects in Multigate MOSFETs.

Shiromani Balmukund Rahi completed his Ph. D. [2018] at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) and post-doctoral research [2021] with Prof. N. Guenifi (Electronics Department, University Mostefa Benboulaid of Batna Algeria (Algeria). Currently he works at Mahamaya College of Agriculture Engineering and Technology Akabarpur Ambedkar Nagar Uttar Pradesh affiliated to Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology Uttar Pradesh India and associated with Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) for advance research for ultra low power devices, circuits and systems. He is currently working on various advanced Field Effect devices such as Tunnel FETs, negative FETs, Nanosheet FETs, NC-Tunnel FET, NC-FinFETs, and FeFETs.

G. Lakshmi Priya is currently an Assistant Professor Senior Grade-II in the School of Electronics Engineering (SENSE), VIT University, Chennai. She completed her Ph.D. in Semiconductor Device Modeling (2020), M.E. in Communication Systems, B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai affiliated to Anna University Chennai. Her primary area of research is Semiconductor Devices and Nanoscale Transistors.

Samuel Tensingh received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2008, and Master of Science in Integrated Circuit Design from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2010. He also received a Master of Business Administration from Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom in 2012. Currently he is working as an Associate Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He also previously worked for ST Microelectronics, Broadcom, and Avago Technologies in Singapore.