Short Course: Designing Ultra Low Voltage Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits

This talk focuses on the challenges and solutions for designing analog circuits at supply voltages well below 1V. Fundamental limitations of the MOS transistor force us to rethink the most basic analog circuit configurations. At the same time, low-voltage operation offers new opportunities to use all four terminals of the transistor while the speed of nanoscale devices allows for different representations for analog signal information. The lecture discusses solutions for analog building blocks like amplifiers operating at ultra-low supply voltages, and how they can be used to build complete analog signal processing systems like filters, track-and-hold circuits or analog-to-digital converters.