The field of low-voltage low-power CMOS technology has grown rapidly in recent years; it is an essential prerequisite particularly for portable electronic equipment and implantable medical devices due to its influence on battery lifetime. Recently, significant improvements in implementing circuits working in the low-voltage lowpower area have been achieved, but circuit designers face severe cha...

The objectives of this paper are to investigate and develop a device that will produce high voltage low power supply. Generation of high voltage low power supply can be determined by using Flyback converter as an optimum method which can improve the design of the device to make it smaller in size, simpler and cost effective. In this paper, the device circuits are simulated using PSPICE software...

This paper presents a simple Pico Watt reference circuit with the output voltage of 263.1mV using sub-threshold operation of MOSFETs at supply voltage of 0.7V. Proposed circuit consumes merely 400 pW of power at room temperature and it is designed using standard TSMC 0.18μm technology. Reference voltage is provided by subtracting the 0◦C threshold voltage of MOSFETs. The simulation results show...

This paper presents a Low power phase frequency detector with charge pump for low power phase lock loop. The phase frequency detector with dead zone compensation has been proposed. The paper contains the detailed circuit diagram of PFD and charge pump with 1.8v power supply and 500MHz input frequency. The design has been realized using 0.18um CMOS technology. Keywords— Low Power, PLL, PFD, CP

The power supply designer is continually being pressured to provide units which have higher efficiency, better regulation, less EMI and RFI, and smaller size and weight, all at a lower cost. The solution to this problem is a combination of circuit topology, layout, and supply control. This application note will address output control techniques for linear and switch mode power supplies (SMPS). ...

Miniaturized, battery-powered, high-voltage power supply, electrochemical (EC) detection, and interface circuits designed for microchip capillary electrophoresis (CE) are described. The dual source CE power supply provides +/- 1 kVDC at 380 microA and can operate continuously for 15 h without recharging. The amperometric EC detection circuit provides electrode potentials of +/-2 VDC and gains o...

A biopotential amplifier for single supply operation is presented. It uses a Driven Right Leg Circuit (DRL) to drive the patient's body to a DC common mode voltage, centering biopotential signals with respect to the amplifier's input voltage range. This scheme ensures proper range operation when a single power supply is used. The circuit described is especially suited for low consumption, batte...

This paper describes the impact of crosstalk noise on low power design techniques based on voltage scaling. I t is shown that this power saving strategy aggmvates the crosstalk noise problem and reduces circuit noise immunity. A new energy-eficient, noise-tolerant dynamic circuit technique is presented to address this problem. In a 0.35pm CMOS technology and at a given supply voltage, the propo...

In this paper, we propose an approach to design and implementation of VLSI circuits free of electrical supply and power rails. With this approach, the circuits can be made to use the power carried by the incident light for supply, control, and optical charge pumping. The circuits can be fabricated in a standard CMOS technology without additional process. A test circuit involving basic gates and...

In this paper we present a methodology for fault diagnosis of analog circuits based on the observation of power supply currents. In the proposed technique, fault signature dictionaries are generated from the currents in the power supply bus. To obtain signatures rich in information for efficient diagnosis, the transistors in the circuit are forced to operate in all regions of operation by using...