A Low Leakage Non-Volatile Memory Voltage Pulse Generator for RFID Applications

Author

Bucci, Marco ; Luzzi, Raimondo ; Vargas, Santos Torres

Author_Institution

Infineon Technol. AG, Graz

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A low leakage voltage pulse generator as needed in small non-volatile memories for RFID applications is presented. The voltage regulation loop is based on a capacitive divider which saves the static current usually consumed in a conventional pulse generator based on a resistor divider. The proposed generator has been used in a 64 bytes flash memory embedded in a RFID IC fabricated in a 0.22 mu CMOS process. Experimental results confirming the effectiveness of the proposed generator are reported.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; dividing circuits; flash memories; pulse generators; radiofrequency integrated circuits; random-access storage; voltage control; CMOS process; RFID IC; capacitive divider; flash memory; low leakage voltage pulse generator; nonvolatile memory; resistor divider; voltage regulation loop; CMOS integrated circuits; Charge pumps; Energy consumption; Nonvolatile memory; Power generation; Pulse generation; Radiofrequency identification; Resistors; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, 2008. DDECS 2008. 11th IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2276-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2277-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDECS.2008.4538791

Filename

4538791