Novel Devices And Circuits

The first two papers discuss novel buffer designs. One driver uses a capacitance feedback to control the output slew, reducing the power noise. The other buffer design utilizes a new CMOS logic circuit with a unique delay propagation characteristic that makes it much faster than conventional CMOS logic. There are two papers on SRAM circuit techniques. One paper presents a new approach based on current-mode to reduce energy and improve the speed of write and read access in multi-port SRAMS. The other SRAM paper presents a new currentmode sense amplifier design which can be used in the design of a low-voltage low power SRAM for ASIC applications.