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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Design of High-Performance CMOS Level Converters Considering PVT Variations

Jinn-Shyan WANG, Yu-Juey CHANG, Chingwei YEH

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CMOS SoCs can reduce power consumption while maintaining performance by adopting voltage scaling (VS) technologies. The operating speed of the level converter (LC) strongly affects the effectiveness of VS technologies. However, PVT variations can cause serious problems to the LC, because the state-of-the-art LC designs do not give enough attention to this issue. In this work, we proposed to analyze the impact of PVT variations on the performance of the LC using a previously developed heuristic sizing methodology. Based on the evaluation results from different operating corners with different offset voltages and temperatures, we proposed a variation-tolerant LC that achieves both high performance and low energy with a high tolerability for PVT variations.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E94-C No.5 pp.913-916
Publication Date
2011/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E94.C.913
Type of Manuscript
BRIEF PAPER
Category
Electronic Circuits

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