Presentation 2010-07-23
Level Converter Circuit for Low Voltage Digital LSIs
Yuji OSAKI, Tetsuya HIROSE, Nobutaka KUROKI, Masahiro NUMA,
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Abstract(in English) Supply voltage scaling in accordance with device scaling has achieved low power dissipation of CMOS LSIs. Because each circuit block in an LSI requires suitable supply voltages, the large voltage gap between each circuit block makes it hard to convert signals between circuit blocks. Therefore, a level converter to solve this problem is a key component for low-voltage LSIs. In this paper, a level converter tolerant to large suply-voltages-gap has been deveolped in a 0.35-μm CMOS process. It can achieve low power operation because it dissipates supply current only when the input signal changes. Measurement results showed that the level converter transformed sinals of 0.4V to 3V.
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Keyword(in English) Level converter / Level shifter / Low voltage operation
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Conference Date 2010/7/15(1days)
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Title (in English) Level Converter Circuit for Low Voltage Digital LSIs
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Keyword(1) Level converter
Keyword(2) Level shifter
Keyword(3) Low voltage operation
1st Author's Name Yuji OSAKI
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University()
2nd Author's Name Tetsuya HIROSE
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
3rd Author's Name Nobutaka KUROKI
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
4th Author's Name Masahiro NUMA
4th Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
Date 2010-07-23
Paper # ICD2010-38
Volume (vol) vol.110
Number (no) 140
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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