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1-V Inverting and Non-inverting Loser-Take-All Circuit and Its Applications

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A new solution for a non-conventional loser-take-all (LTA) circuit is proposed in the paper. The circuit possesses several inverting and non-inverting input terminals and an additional current output, which increases its versatility and allows simplifying its possible applications. In order to show its usefulness and versatility, several new applications of the proposed LTA have also been developed, including a simple digital-to-analog converter, an n-bit programmable adder/summer, a chopper modulator and a precision rectifier. The LTA has been designed and fabricated with a 0.35 \(\upmu \hbox {m}\) CMOS I3T25 AMIS process, exploiting the recently proposed bulk-driven quasi-floating-gate technique. The LTA circuit operates from 1 V supply and dissipates 74 \(\upmu \hbox {W}\) of power. The simulations performed in Cadence environment and the measurements of a real chip confirm the attractive features of the proposed LTA.

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Acknowledgments

Research described in this paper was financed by the National Sustainability Program under Grant LO1401 and by the Czech Science Foundation under Grant No. P102-15-21942S. For the research, infrastructure of the SIX Center was used.

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  1. Department of Microelectronics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 10, Brno, Czech Republic

    Fabian Khateb

  2. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, nám. Sítná, 3105, Kladno, Czech Republic

    Fabian Khateb

  3. Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, 10520, Thailand

    Montree Kumngern

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Częstochowa, 42-201, Czestochowa, Poland

    Tomasz Kulej

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Khateb, F., Kumngern, M. & Kulej, T. 1-V Inverting and Non-inverting Loser-Take-All Circuit and Its Applications. Circuits Syst Signal Process 35, 1507–1529 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-015-0130-5

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