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.
Fast and Wide Range Voltage Conversion in Multi-Supply Voltage Designs / Lanuzza, Marco; Corsonello, Pasquale; Perri, Stefania. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS. - ISSN 1063-8210. - 23:2(2015), pp. 388-391.
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Titolo: | Fast and Wide Range Voltage Conversion in Multi-Supply Voltage Designs |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 |
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Citazione: | Fast and Wide Range Voltage Conversion in Multi-Supply Voltage Designs / Lanuzza, Marco; Corsonello, Pasquale; Perri, Stefania. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS. - ISSN 1063-8210. - 23:2(2015), pp. 388-391. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11770/135542 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |