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Bonding Pad Design Bonding Pad GND 100 mm Out VDD Out In GND
Reducing the swing • Reducing the swing potentially yields linear reduction in delay • Also results in reduction in power dissipation • Requires use of “sense amplifier” to restore signal level
Using Bipolar Versus MOS But: Bipolar does not scale well with voltage!
Reducing RC-delay Repeater