Powering Digitals Circuits with Millivolt-Level Alternating Current Sources

摘要

The growth of electronics during the last century has seen remarkable achievements in the fields of high-speed, high-performance, robust, and highly compact devices. These developments have had a profound impact in the digital world of electronics, causing each device generation to be nearly twice as fast as the previous version. Recently, the growth curve of device speed started stagnating, bringing another aspect of device performance into the limelight—power consumption. The lower the power consumed, the more portable the device.