Noise mitigation in low leakage MTCMOS circuits

Abstract

It is the journey, not the arrival, that matters." When I am approaching the ending point of the journey of my Ph. D. study, I would like to thank all the people who help me along the way.I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Volkan Kursun, for his tireless guidance and continuous support during my Ph. D. study. His dedication and hard working stimulates me to devote more time into my research work. His strictness on every step of my study helps to maintain the high quality of my academic publications. He is unswervingly pursuing perfection, inspiring me to refine myself continuously. He spends tremendous amount of time in helping me to develop the necessary skills to be a successful and independent researcher. I will always remember his motivation to be an outstanding scientist. I also would like to thank Professor Zilong Wen, Professor Chi-Ying Tsui, Professor Jie Yuan, Professor Pedro V. Sander, and Professor Eby G. Friedman for serving on my Ph. D. thesis defense committee. My special thanks go to Professor Eby G. Friedman for coming all the way from the U. S. to attend my final oral examination. I am also grateful to Professor Amine Bermak for his service in my Ph. D. thesis proposal. I appreciate the support from all my colleagues and friends. I would like to thank Hong Zhu, Yanan Sun, Shairfe M. Salahuddin, and Khawar Sarfraz of Nanoelectronic Circuits and Gigascale Systems Lab for the help in the past years. I am also very grateful to the staff members, Siu Fai Luk, Kenny Pang, and Iris Ting, at the Department of Electronic andComputer Engineering for their constant support. Furthermore, I would like to express my thanks to Zhenyu Wu, Dongge Tang, and Guangcai Ding for the long term inspiration. I also would like to thank Xuan Li for the constant encouragements. There are too many friends who I would like to thank in Hong Kong, mainland China, the U. S., and Europe. The friendships will be imprinted in my mind forever. This dissertation is made possible with the support and encouragement from my parents. I am deeply indebted to my parents for their endless love. They are always with me whenever I vii am frustrated by my tough work. I would like to share every moment of joy of my life with them in the future. They will also be proud of my success in my future career. This dissertation is the ending of one journey, but the beginning of a new journey. All the helps, encouragements, and love that I received during my Ph. D. study will become my motivation to achieve more in the future.