Re: Low Voltage Analog IC.
Hi Suraj:
From the point of High frequency analog circuit design, the answers to your questions are:
1.Low voltage architectures is necessary to increase the Life time perweight of the battery used in PDA’s
2.Obtaining high dynamic range output, with reduced stacked transistors hence proposing novel architectures serves as the main challenge in realizing this architectures.
3.You could browse through this papers for more information:
Manku, T., Beck, G. & Shin, E.J. (1998). A Low-Voltage Design Technique for RF Integrated Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, 45(10), 1408-1413.
Svelto, F., Conta, M., Torre, V.D. & Castello, R. (1999). A Low Voltage Topology for CMOS RF Mixers. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 45(2), 299-309.
MacEachern, L.A.& Manku, T.(1999). A Low Voltage and Low Power Integrated Radio Frequency Mixer. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 525-528.
Rgds