A DYNAMIC CMOS MULTIPLIER FOR ANALOG VLSI BASED ON EXPONENTIAL PULSE-DECAY MODULATION

A clocked, charge-based, CMOS modulator circuit is presented. The circuit, which performs a semilinear multiplication function, has applications in arrayed analog VLSI architectures such as parallel filters and neural network systems. Two-quadrant weighting of an input signal is accomplished by control of the magnitude and decay time of an exponential current pulse, resulting in the delivery of charge packets to a shared capacitive summing bus. The cell is modular in structure and can be fabricated in a standard CMOS process. An analytical derivation of the operation of the circuit, as well as SPICE simulations and MOSIS fabrication results, are presented.