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Design of High-Voltage Level Shifters Based on Stacked Standard Transistors for a Wide Range of Supply Voltages

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Sara Pashmineh,

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SBCCI '15: Proceedings of the 28th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2800986.2801003

Published: 31 August 2015 Publication History

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This paper presents the design of two high-voltage level shifters suitable for a wide range of supply voltages. In view of certain drawbacks identified during the design, implementation, simulation and measurement of a 3-stacked CMOS driver using capacitive feedback level shifters, improved high-voltage level shifters are designed. These circuits are compared with each other in terms of their circuit description, drawbacks, advantages and simulation results. The circuit designs are technology-independent and compatible with scaled CMOS devices because these circuits are based on stacked standard transistors. Both high-voltage level shifters are proved by simulating in 65-nm TSMC technology with a nominal voltage of 2.5 V. The level shifter can be applied for supply voltages between 2.6 V / 3.5 V and 7.5 V, respectively. The supply voltage range is extended by 67% and 104% respectively when compared against common level shifters.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0626-0_31

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SBCCI '15: Proceedings of the 28th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

August 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2800986

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B SChavan A(2021)Ultra-Low Power, Area Efficient and High-Speed Voltage Level Shifter based on Wilson Current Mirror2021 IEEE Mysore Sub Section International Conference (MysuruCon)10.1109/MysuruCon52639.2021.9641657(108-113)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/MysuruCon52639.2021.9641657
Swaroop SRavindra K(2019)Design and Implementation of Multiple-Output CMOS Voltage Level ShifterAdvances in Communication, Signal Processing, VLSI, and Embedded Systems10.1007/978-981-15-0626-0_31(385-401)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0626-0_31

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