• DocumentCode
    1766032
  • Title

    High-performance wide-VDDH-range level converter for mixed-signal systems

  • Author

    Jungmoon Kim ; Chulwoo Kim

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    18
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    August 29 2013
  • Firstpage
    1125
  • Lastpage
    1126
  • Abstract
    A high-performance wide-VDDH-range level converter (LC) is presented for mixed-signal systems. The proposed LC achieves a low power-delay product over a wide range of VDDH with VDDL in the near-threshold region. The proposed LC uses a feed-forward signal to pull down the output voltage at low VDDH, without increasing the size of the nMOS diode for the pseudo-VDDL. A comparison with conventional LCs shows that the proposed LC not only supports high VDDH but is also robust at low VDDH while exhibiting high performance.
  • Keywords
    low-power electronics; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; high-performance wide-VDDH-range level converter; low power-delay product; mixed-signal systems; near-threshold region;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2013.1479
  • Filename
    6587635
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1766032