CMOS Adiabatic Driver with Bootstrap Technique for Driving Large Capacitive Loads

Author

García, José C. ; Nelson, Juan A Montiel ; Nooshabadi, Saeid

Author_Institution

Inst. for Appl. Microelectron., Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a highly energy efficient CMOS adiabatic driver (ee-driver). The proposed ee-driver uses an output stage with two bootstrap capacitors driven by a pre-driver circuit consisting of two differential cascode voltage switch (DCVS) logic cells. When implemented on a 0.13 mum CMOS 1.2 V technology, under the large capacitive loading condition, ee-driver performs better than the reference adiabatic circuit (ab-driver) in terms of propagation delay (39%), the energy-delay product (39%), and active area (57%).

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; bootstrap circuits; capacitors; driver circuits; switches; DCVS logic cells; bootstrap capacitors; bootstrap technique; differential cascode voltage switch; energy efficient CMOS adiabatic driver; large capacitive loads; predriver circuit; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Driver circuits; Energy efficiency; Logic circuits; Propagation delay; Switched capacitor circuits; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technologies, 2008. ISCIT 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2335-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2336-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2008.4700248

Filename

4700248