Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is one of the major reliability issues in advanced CMOS technologies. Research has shown that only I/O based ESD protection circuits are inadequate in providing necessary ESD protection. Therefore, it is important to have an effective ESD power supply clamp across the power supply rails so that the ESD event will be discharged through it and protects the circuit co...

This paper presents a 0.13μm CMOS 1.7GHz VCO with frequency divider, suitable for ultra-low-power hearing-aid applications. The circuit has a 16% tuning range, a minimum power consumption of 320μW from a 0.8V power supply, power-supply and temperature compensation, an excellent 188dBc/Hz gure-of-merit without the need of off-chip components, and an area of 0.2mm.

This paper propose a new circuit design which monitor total leakage current during standby mode and generates the optimal reverse body bias voltage, by using the adaptive body bias (ABB) technique to compensate die-to-die parameter variations. Design details of power monitor are examined using simulation framework in 65nm and 32nm BTPM model CMOS process. Experimental results show the overhead ...

The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient converter circuit used to drive switched reluctance motors. It uses the C-dump topology in which the trapped energy in the phase windings is returned to the supply capacitor to be used in the following strokes. In addition to the C-dump topology, it uses two extra feedbacks. One comes from a governor mounted on the shaft of motor which contro...

In this paper, footless domino logic buffer circuit is proposed. It minimizes redundant switching at the dynamic and the output nodes. This circuit passes propagation of precharge pulse to the dynamic node and avoids precharge pulse to the output node which saves power consumption. Simulation is done using 0. 18μm CMOS technology. We have calculated the power consumption, delay and power delay ...

This paper presents two low-power sensor read-out circuit schemes for implantable biosensor applications. The proposed work presents the design of ASK and FSK schemes in bulk CMOS technology. Either scheme consists of a data generator block and modulator block. The first version of the circuit is designed in a 0.35μm CMOS process and it can generate an amplitude-shift-keying (ASK) signal while ...

A low-power CMOS current reference circuit was developed using a 0.35-μm standard CMOS process technology. The circuit consists of MOSFET circuits operating in the subthreshold region and uses no resistors. It compensates for the temperature effect on mobility μ and threshold voltage VTH of MOSFETs and generates a reference current that is insensitive to temperature and supply voltage. Theoreti...

This paper uses CT to gain the energy directly from the high-voltage transmission line, to address the problem of power supply for monitoring system in high voltage side of transmission line. The draw-out power coil can induce voltage from the transmission line, using single-chip microcomputer to analog and output PMW wave to control the charging module, provides a stable 3.4 V DC voltage to th...

High power LED converter combined with switching power supply and current adjustment device for is presented. The switching power supply provides one stabilized voltage source, and the current adjustment device controls the output currents with a desired constant current and the over-load protection. The experiment results shows the circuit can work well and pass the load test and the electroma...

polysilicon diodes to trigger ESD protection device is proposed to achieve excellent on-chip ESD protection. Design methodology of this novel ESD clamp circuit has been derived in detail. Some controlled factors in the novel ESD clamp circuit can be exactly calculated to design a suitable ESD clamp circuit for different power supply applications. By adding this efficient power-rail ESD clamp ci...