Energy conservation is an important global issue. The home is the third largest energy consumer, and 10% of the home energy use is standby power of home appliances. The proliferation of home networks increases the standby power. The conventional technologies for low networked standby power such as WoL require continuous AC power, as much as 0.5 watts, to monitor wake-up signals. A large portion...

This paper we proposed advanced burst mode control technique to reduce the standby power consumption of the switch mode power supply (SMPS). To reduce the standby power consumption, most of the converter use burst mode or skip mode control technique. However Conventional standby mode control techniques have some problems such as audible noise and poor regulation. In proposed techniques, basical...

With the consideration of low standby leakage in nanoscale CMOS processes, a new 2×VDD-tolerant ESD clamp circuit was presented in this paper. The new ESD clamp circuit had a high-voltage-tolerant ESD detection circuit to improve the turn-on efficiency of the silicon-controlled-rectifier-based (SCRbased) ESD device. This design had been successfully verified in a 65-nm CMOS process. The leakage...

This paper proposes a sleep transistor based minimum size inverter in BSIM4.3.0, 50nm CMOS technology with supply voltage of 1V, power dissipation of 46.28nW at 0.502V and maximum drain current of 70nA. The operating frequency is 1GHz. The disadvantage is decrease in voltage swing by 15% compared to the conventional CMOS Inverter of the same size, whereas the power dissipation is only 1.117% of...

An inspection policy for a standby unit is considered by taking a standby electric generator as an example. The expected cost by the time of the electric power supply failure is derived by rising renewal-type equations. We discuss an optimum checking time which minimizes the expected cost. We further obtain a checking time such that the probability that a standby generator has failed at the tim...

We propose a novel power supply circuit that can make a standby power consumption of an infrared remote (IR) controlled product completely zero. Our proposal is a hybrid power supply circuit combining the energy harvesting and conventional power supply structure. The IR controlled product employing our proposal has no pass of electric current in the standby mode. It is activated by the electrom...

In this paper, four new hybrid digital circuit design techniques, namely, hybrid multi-threshold CMOS complete stack technique, hybrid multi-threshold CMOS partial stack technique, hybrid super cutoff complete stack technique and hybrid super cutoff partial stack technique, have been proposed to reduce the subthreshold leakage power dissipation in standby modes. Techniques available in literatu...