Name
Abstract | ||
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Multisupply voltage design technique is widely used in modern system-on-chips to tradeoff energy and speed. Level shifters (LSs) allow different voltage domains to be interfaced. In this brief, a new LS is presented for fast and wide range voltage conversion. Because of a novel architecture combined with the use of multithreshold CMOS technique, the proposed circuit guarantees robust voltage shifting from the deep subthreshold to the above-threshold domain while exhibiting fast response and low energy consumption. When implemented in a 90-nm technology node, considering process-voltage-temperature variations, the proposed design reliably converts 100-mV input signals into 1 V output signals. Post-layout simulation results demonstrate that the new LS shows a propagation delay of 16.6 ns, a static power dissipation of 8.7 nW and a total energy per transition of only 77 fJ for a 0.2 V 1-MHz input pulse. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/TVLSI.2014.2308400 | VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
cmos integrated circuits,integrated circuit layout,low-power electronics,phase shifters,system-on-chip,deep subthreshold,fast range voltage conversion,frequency 1 mhz,level shifters,low energy consumption,multisupply voltage designs,multithreshold cmos technique,post layout simulation,power 8.7 nw,propagation delay,robust voltage shifting,size 90 nm,static power dissipation,system-on-chips,time 16.6 ns,voltage 0.2 v,voltage 1 v,voltage 100 mv,wide range voltage conversion,level shifter (ls),multisupply voltage design (msvd),subthreshold operation,ultralow power,ultralow power.,threshold voltage,very large scale integration | Computer science,Voltage reference,Overdrive voltage,Voltage optimisation,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Voltage regulation,Electrical engineering,Bandgap voltage reference,Voltage droop,Dropout voltage,Voltage divider | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
23 | 2 | 1063-8210 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.68 | 11 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Lanuzza | 1 | 203 | 28.64 |
| Pasquale Corsonello | 2 | 278 | 38.06 |
| Stefania Perri | 3 | 264 | 33.11 |