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10 mV: 1V Step-up Converter for Energy Harvesting Applications

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Marcio Bender Machado,

Mohamad Sawan,

Marcio Cherem Schneider,

Carlos Galup-MontoroAuthors Info & Claims

SBCCI '14: Proceedings of the 27th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Article No.: 25, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/2660540.2660993

Published: 01 September 2014 Publication History

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This paper presents an ultra-low-voltage step-up converter for energy harvesting applications, which is able to operate from supply voltages below the thermal voltage kT/q. The operation of the main blocks of the converter, namely an enhanced swing ring oscillator and a Dickson charge pump, both operating at ultra-low voltage, is described. The extremely low voltage operation, made feasible through the arrangement presented, is demonstrated via a prototype built with off-the-shelf devices and zero-VT transistors in a 130 nm CMOS technology. The prototype generates a DC output equal to 1V at current consumptions of 10 nA and 1 μA from input voltages of 10 and 25 mV, respectively.

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