Charge Pump Circuits: An Overview on Design Strategies and Topologies

Author

Palumbo, Gaetano ; Pappalardo, Domenico

Author_Institution

DIEES (Dipt. di Ing. Elettr. Elettron. e dei Sist.), Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2010

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Due to the continuous power supply reduction, charge pumps circuits are widely used in integrated circuits (ICs) devoted to several kind of applications such as smart power, nonvolatile memories, switched capacitor circuits, operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, SRAMs, LCD drivers, piezoelectric actuators, RF antenna switch controllers, etc. The main focus of this tutorial manuscript is to provide a deep understanding of the charge pumps behavior, to present useful models and key parameters and to organically and in details discuss the optimized design strategies. Finally, an overview of the main different topologies is also included.

Keywords

SRAM chips; charge pump circuits; driver circuits; integrated circuit design; operational amplifiers; piezoelectric actuators; power integrated circuits; voltage regulators; LCD drivers; RF antenna switch controllers; SRAM; charge pump circuits; continuous power supply reduction; integrated circuits; nonvolatile memories; operational amplifiers; piezoelectric actuators; smart power; switched capacitor circuits; voltage regulators; Application specific integrated circuits; Charge pumps; Circuit topology; Nonvolatile memory; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power supplies; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Switched capacitor circuits; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-636X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCAS.2009.935695

Filename

5430472