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This chapter presents five comparators in 120 nm CMOS technology. Circuit details and measurement results are described for each of them. Starting from 1.5 GHz decision rate the performance is improved up to 6 GHz. One comparator is appropriate for low-voltage operation down to 0.5 V supply voltage and shows then an ultra-low power consumption of only 18 \(\upmu \)W. Anot her comparator demonstrates an advanced sensitivity tuning technique.
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Goll, B., Zimmermann, H. (2015). Comparators in 120 nm CMOS. In: Comparators in Nanometer CMOS Technology. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44482-5_6
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