Ultra-Low-Voltage Self-Body Biasing Scheme and Its Application to Basic Arithmetic Circuits

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Figure 12

Figure 12: Ultra-Low-Voltage Self-Body Biasing Scheme and Its Application to Basic Arithmetic Circuits 