Gallium Arsenide Digital Circuits

✍ Scribed by Omar Wing (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 109
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gallium Arsenide technology has come of age. GaAs integrated circuits are available today as gate arrays with an operating speed in excess of one Gigabits per second. Special purpose GaAs circuits are used in optical fiber digital communications systems for the purpose of regeneration, multiplexing and switching of the optical signals. As advances in fabrication and packaging techniques are made, the operat­ ing speed will further increase and the cost of production will reach a point where large scale application of GaAs circuits will be economical in these and other systems where speed is paramount. This book is written for students and engineers who wish to enter into this new field of electronics for the first time and who wish to embark on a serious study of the subject of GaAs circuit design. No prior knowledge of GaAs technology is assumed though some previous experience with MOS circuit design will be helpful. A good part of the book is devoted to circuit analysis, to the extent that is possible for non­ linear circuits. The circuit model of the GaAs transistor is derived from first principles and analytic formulas useful in predicting the approxi­ mate circuit performance are also derived. Computer simulation is used throughout the book to show the expected performance and to study the effects of parameter variations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Circuit Models of the MESFET....Pages 15-61
Enhancement-Depletion Logic Circuits....Pages 63-93
Transmission-Gate Logic....Pages 95-104
Buffered ED Logic Circuits....Pages 105-134
Source-Coupled Logic Circuits....Pages 135-147
Subsystems Design....Pages 149-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-188

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems;Electrical Engineering