Title :
A 65nm Sub-Vt Microcontroller with Integrated SRAM and Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter
Author :
Kwong, Joyce ; Ramadass, Yogesh ; Verma, Naveen ; Koesler, Markus ; Huber, Korbinian ; Moormann, Hans ; Chandrakasan, Anantha
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
This paper presents a 65nm sub-Vt SoC featuring a microcontroller core and custom 128Kb SRAM functional in sub-threshold, powered by a switched capacitor DC-DC converter that delivers variable load voltages from 0.3V to 0.6V.
Keywords :
DC-DC power convertors; SRAM chips; microcontrollers; switched capacitor networks; system-on-chip; DC-DC converter; SRAM; SoC; size 65 nm; storage capacity 128 Kbit; sub-Vt microcontroller; switched-capacitor converter; system-on-chip; voltage 0.3 V to 0.6 V; Capacitors; DC-DC power converters; Delay; Instruments; Logic; Microcontrollers; Random access memory; Switching converters; Timing; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2010-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2011-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523185