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Unlike digital transistors, scaling does not happen so readily or cleanly with analog blocks. The motivation to scale is driven by the fact that digital transistors scale quadratically with each process generation. There are many reasons that analog does not scale as readily. Mostly this is related to the fact the the I/O devices and passives, typically used extensively in analog circuits, do not scale from node to node.  So, is there any hope in benefiting from the process node scaling that we see in digital transistors?