Title
Energy-efficient Level Shifter topology
Abstract
Level Shifters (LS) are essential components of integrated circuits with multiple power supply. They work as voltage scaling interfaces between different power domains. In this paper, we present an energy-efficient level shifter with low area topology. It requires only one power rail and can operate nearby the threshold voltage. We validated the proposed topology with simulations on an IBM 130nm CMOS technology. We compared our topology with traditional LS, like the Differential Cascode Voltage Switch (DCVS) or the Puri's topology. The proposed topology requires up to 93.79% less energy under certain conditions. It presented 88.03% smaller delay and 39.6% less Power-Delay Product (PDP) when compared to the DCVS topology. In contrast with the Puri's level shifter, we obtained a reduction of 32.08% in power consumption, 13.26% smaller delay and 15.37% lower PDP. In addition, our level shifter was the only one capable to work at 35% of the nominal supply.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/PATMOS.2015.7347600
2015 25th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
level shifter,low power,multiple supply voltage,power-delay product
Power–delay product,Power domains,Cascode,Computer science,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Integrated circuit,Topology,Voltage,CMOS,Logic level,Electrical engineering,Threshold voltage
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2474-5456
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roger Llanos100.34
Diego Sousa200.34
Terres, M.331.36
Guilherme Bontorin412.52
Ricardo A. L. Reis521748.75
Marcelo De Oliveira Johann6266.28