Title :
High-speed low-power bootstrapped level converter for dual supply systems
Author :
Han, Sang-Keun ; Park, KeeChan ; Kong, Bai-Sun ; Jun, Young-Hyun
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper proposes a high-speed and low-power bootstrapped level converter for dual-supply systems. The proposed level converter adopts a voltage bootstrapping at the gate of pull-down transistors to achieve improved driving speed and reduced contention problem. Simulation results in a 0.13-um CMOS process indicated that the proposed level converter reduces the propagation delay up to 64% and the power-delay product up to 49% as compared to conventional level converters.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; bootstrap circuits; low-power electronics; power convertors; power supply circuits; CMOS process; contention problem; dual supply systems; high-speed bootstrapped level converter; low-power bootstrapped level converter; power-delay product; pull-down transistors; size 0.13 mum; Random access memory; Level converter; clustered voltage scaling; dual supply system; voltage bootstrapping;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7454-7
DOI :
10.1109/APCCAS.2010.5774982
