A systematic description of microelectronic device design. Topics range from the basics to low-power and ultralow-voltage designs, subthreshold current reduction, memory subsystem designs for modern DRAMs, and various on-chip supply-voltage conversion techniques. It also covers process and device issues as well as design issues relating to systems, circuits, devices and processes, such as signal-to-noise and redundancy.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- MOS Integrated Circuit.- Dram Circuit.- High S/N Technology of DRAM.- On-Chip Power-Supply Voltage Generators.- High Data-Throughput DRAM Memory Circuit.- Ultralow-Voltage Memory Circuit.- Future Direction of Memory Chip Design.