“…Besides, low-voltage operation results in limited common-mode input range, which is important in many high-speed ADC architectures, such as flash ADCs. Many techniques, such as supply boosting methods [2], [3], techniques employing body-driven transistors [4], [5], current-mode design [6] and those using dual-oxide processes, which can handle higher supply voltages have been developed to meet the low-voltage design challenges. Boosting and bootstrapping are two techniques based on augmenting the supply, reference, or clock voltage to address input-range and switching problems.…”