Title :
Integrated MEMS Switches for Leakage Control of Battery Operated Systems
Author :
Raychowdhury, A. ; Kim, Jeong Il ; Peroulis, D. ; Roy, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel and efficient leakage control technique suitable for battery operated systems. In this paper we propose to completely cut off the power supply of combinational digital logic of the baseband processor in the standby mode of operation using an integrated MEMS switch. Measurement results of thermally actuated MEMS switches illustrate extremely low ON resistances (<3Omega) with NO-standby power consumption. This methodology can drastically reduce the leakage power, thereby increasing the battery lifetime by more than 50%
Keywords :
VLSI; combinational circuits; logic design; microswitches; baseband processor; battery operated systems; combinational digital logic; integrated MEMS switches; leakage control technique; leakage power; power supply; thermally actuated MEMS switches; Baseband; Battery charge measurement; Control systems; Electrical resistance measurement; Emergency power supplies; Energy consumption; Logic; Microswitches; Power measurement; Thermal resistance;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. CICC '06. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0075-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0076-7
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.2006.320821
