Abstract

The practical aspect of nanotechnology includes the production of devices and their components needed to create, process and manipulate atoms, molecules and nanoparticles. The phenomena of aging and self-heating significantly affect the operation of microelectronic circuits. This paper developed a model of a three-bit, parallel analog-to-digital converter with low power consumption, as a result of which the circuit does not use resistors and comparators. The absence of resistors improves the static power consumption of the circuit and reduces the problems associated with aging and self-heating, while the absence of comparators has a positive effect on the dynamic power consumption. The Parallel A/D converter has been designed for a 14 nm process, at 25°C, for input signals with an amplitude of 1.8 V. The results obtained show that the developed converter uses about 100 times less energy compared to the classical architecture. Since the eight resistors were removed from the circuit, the area of the resulting converter was reduced by at least 8R_nom, where R_nom = 0.7225 μm is the area of the 1 KΩ resistor.

中文翻译：

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低功耗模数转换器模型

摘要

纳米技术的实用方面包括制造、加工和操纵原子、分子和纳米粒子所需的设备及其组件。老化和自热现象显着影响微电子电路的运行。本文开发了一种低功耗的三位并行模数转换器模型，因此该电路不使用电阻器和比较器。没有电阻器改善了电路的静态功耗并减少了与老化和自热相关的问题，而没有比较器对动态功耗有积极影响。并行 A/D 转换器设计用于 14 nm 工艺，温度为 25°C，输入信号幅度为 1.8 V。获得的结果表明，与经典架构相比，开发的转换器使用的能量减少了约 100 倍。由于从电路中移除了 8 个电阻器，所得转换器的面积至少减少了 8R _nom，其中R _nom = 0.7225 μm 是 1 KΩ 电阻器的面积。