Add to ORKGThere has been a tremendous evolution in integrated circuit technology in the past decades. With the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, faster, less power consuming and more complex chips per unit area have made possible electronic gadgets to evolve to what we see today. The increasing demand in electronic portability imposes low power consumption as a key metric to analog and digital circuit design. While dynamic power consumption decreases quadratically with the decrease of power supply voltage, leakage power presents a limitation due to the inverse sub-threshold slope (SS). A power supply reduction implies a consequent threshold voltage reduction that, given the fixed SS, cause an exponential increase...
