HIGH SPEED DIGITAL CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY

The following sections are included:

• Introduction and Overview

• General Requirements for High Speed Digital Circuits

• Material and Process Influences on High Speed Device Performance

  • Importance of materials on device and circuit performance: FETs

  • Importance of materials on device and circuit performance: BJTs

  • Importance of process on device and circuit performance

• Circuits for High Performance Digital ICs

  • Very high speed SSI/MSI circuits

  • Low power high speed LSI/VLSI circuit techniques

    • Static ratioed logic

    • Static non-ratioed logic

    • Dynamic low power high speed circuits

    • Low power bipolar logic

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgment

• References