High performance single supply CMOS inverter level up shifter for multi-supply voltages domains

Authors

Jose C. Garcia, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Juan A. Montiel-Nelson, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
J. Sosa, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Saeid Nooshabadi, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

4-23-2015

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

A single supply CMOS inverter level shifter (ssqc- ls) for upconverting signals from 0.4V-1V logic level range up to 1.1V power supply domain is introduced. For guaranteing a low energy consumption, the proposed shifter is based on topological modifications of the structure qc-level shifter reported in [1]. For 0.5V input square wave switching at 500MHz, the inverter level shifter ssqc-ls using 1.2V of power supply voltage achieves a 60% of Figure of Merit improvement in comparison against jy-ls [8] with a dual power supply voltage of 0.6V and 1.2V. Post-layout simulation results shown that ssqc-ls reaches a propagation delay of 0.75ns, an energy consumption of only 2.3pJ, and an energy- delay product of 1.73pJns for a capacitive loading condition of 950fF.

Publisher's Statement

© 2015 EDAA. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.7873/date.2015.0033

Publication Title

Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE

Recommended Citation

Garcia, J., Montiel-Nelson, J., Sosa, J., & Nooshabadi, S. (2015). High performance single supply CMOS inverter level up shifter for multi-supply voltages domains. Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE, 2015-April, 1273-1276. http://doi.org/10.7873/date.2015.0033
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