Design of fast low‐power floating high‐voltage level‐shifters. Issue 3 (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lehmann, T.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 50:Issue 3(2014)
• Page Start: 202
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: logic circuits -- low‐power electronics; fast low‐power digital floating high‐voltage level‐shifter -- order‐of‐magnitude reduction -- power dissipation -- size 0.35 mum -- voltage 2.5 V -- voltage 17.5 V -- time 3 ns -- energy 6 pJ; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2013.2270
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : What limits performance in some recently published digital floating level‐shifters are identified and a new level‐shifter is proposed to address these limitations. An order‐of‐magnitude reduction in power dissipation compared with the recently published fast high‐voltage level‐shifters is obtained; simulations in a high‐voltage 0.35 μm process show the proposed design is capable of shifting a 2.5 V logic signal up by 17.5 V with a propagation delay of 3 ns and a transition energy of 6 pJ.