Design rules for subthreshold MOS circuits

Jorge Ernesto Perez Chamorro (1) , Cyril Lahuec (1) , Fabrice Seguin (1) , Michel Jezequel (1)

1 ELEC - Département Electronique

This paper proposes a set of useful criteria andrules to be used when designing subthreshold MOS analogdecoders. The proposition is made for Gilbert-based circuits andthe Sum-Product algorithm, though they are expected to work forsubthreshold MOS circuits in general with minor modifications.The resulting architecture is simple, bias low-dependent andfully controllable. The nodes required by a decoder for theSum-Product algorithm are designed as a proof of concept andinterconnected together in an LDPC decoder.

Mots clés: Subthreshold MOS circuits; Analog decoding; Sum-Product; Algorithm; Gilbert Cell

Domaines: Electronique; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Jorge Ernesto Perez Chamorro, Cyril Lahuec, Fabrice Seguin, Michel Jezequel. Design rules for subthreshold MOS circuits. 5th Analog Decoding Workshop, Jun 2006, Torino, Italy. pp.23 - 26. ⟨hal-02294338⟩