Open AccessDesign of fast low‐power floating high‐voltage level‐shifters
Author(s) -
Lehmann T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2013.2270
Subject(s) - low voltage , electrical engineering , power (physics) , voltage , low power electronics , electronic engineering , materials science , computer science , engineering , physics , power consumption , quantum mechanics
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.