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Title:	Investigation of different CMOS DRAM sense amplifier configurations in VLSI
Author:	Chiu, Bihju
View Online:	njit-etd1988-005 (v, 41 pages ~ 1.4 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Electrical Engineering
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Electrical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Singh, Michael Pratap (Committee chair) Frank, Joseph (Committee member)
Date:	1988
Keywords:	Metal oxide semiconductors, Complimentary Amplifiers (Electronics)
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	Sense amplifiers are particularly difficult circuits to design. In this work, only CMOS sense amplifiers are considered. There are typically two configurations of CMOS sense amplifiers: the cross-connected flip flop configuration and the current-mirror configuration. They are widely used nowadays with various modifications. These improved configurations are simulated and optimized with SPICE package, and their relative performances are also compared in this thesis.