NOVEL HIGH-SPEED CIRCUIT STRUCTURES FOR BICMOS ENVIRONMENT

Novel high speed BiCMOS circuits including ECL/CMOS, CMOS/ECL interfac e circuits and a BiCMOS sense amplifier are presented, A generic 0.8 m u m complementary BiCMOS technology has been used in the circuit desig n, Circuit simulations show superior performance of the novel circuits over conventional designs, The time delays of the proposed ECL/CMOS i nterface circuits, the dynamic reference voltage CMOS/ECL interface ci rcuit and the BiCMOS sense amplifier are improved by 20, 250, and 60%, respectively, All the proposed circuits maintain speed advantage unti l the supply voltage is scaled down to 3.3 V.