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

fYear

2006

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

460

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2006.320821

Filename

4115001