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Information technology emerged during the 1970s based on main-frame computers. Since then, PCs and the Internet world have drastically expanded the IT and semiconductor industry along with rapid growth of network and communication technology. The success has been mainly driven by improvements of integrated circuits in terms of high speed, high density and low power through continuous scaling of process technologies and smart design techniques. It is projected [5] that the delay of integrated logic gates will continue to scale exponentially. This will result in a considerable increase in signal processing speed. The microprocessor clock frequency has been doubling every two years and will reach about 5GHz in 2005.
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Wicht, B. (2003). Introduction. In: Current Sense Amplifiers. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06442-9_1
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