Design and implementation of electrical-supply-free VLSI circuits

Author

Wang, Chunyan ; Devos, Francis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

23-25 Feb. 2003

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

48

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach of the design and implementation of VLSI circuits free of electrical supply and power rails. With this approach, the circuits can be made to use the power carried by incident light for supply, control, and optical charge pumping. They are based on using photodiodes for power conversion. The circuits can be fabricated in a standard CMOS technology without additional processes. A test circuit involving basic gates and a pulse generator has been designed and fabricated in a 0.18 μm process, and successfully tested.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; logic design; logic gates; photodiodes; power convertors; pulse generators; 0.18 micron; CMOS technology; control signals; electrical-supply-free VLSI circuits; incident light power; logic gates; optical charge pumping; photocurrent; photodiode; power conversion; power rail free circuits; pulse generator; CMOS technology; Charge pumps; Circuit testing; Lighting control; Optical control; Optical pumping; Photodiodes; Power supplies; Rails; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed-Signal Design, 2003. Southwest Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7778-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSMSD.2003.1190394

Filename

1190394