Level Up/Down Converter with Single Power-Supply Voltage for Multi-VDD Systems
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- Title
- Level Up/Down Converter with Single Power-Supply Voltage for Multi-VDD Systems
- Authors
- An, JY; Park, HS; Kim, YH
- Date Issued
- 2010-03
- Publisher
- IEEK PUBLICATION CENTER
- Abstract
- For battery-powered device applications, which grow rapidly in the electronic market today, low-power becomes one of the most important design issues of CMOS VLSI circuits. A multi-V-DD system, which uses more than one power-supply voltage in the same system, is an effective way to reduce the power consumption without degrading operating speed. However, in the multi-V-DD system, level converters should be inserted to prevent a large static current flow for the low-to-high conversion. The insertion of the level converters induces the overheads of power consumption, delay, and area. In this paper, we propose a new level converter which can provide the level up/down conversions for the various input and output voltages. Since the proposed level converter uses only one power-supply voltage, it has an advantage of reducing the complexity in physical design. In addition, the proposed level converter provides lower power and higher speed, compared to existing level converters.
- Keywords
- Level converter; multi-V(DD) system; low-power; FLIP-FLOPS
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/17485
- DOI
- 10.5573/JSTS.2010.10.1.055
- ISSN
- 1598-1657
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, vol. 10, no. 1, page. 55 - 60, 2010-03
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