An area and energy efficient ultra-low voltage level shifter with pass transistor and reduced-swing output buffer in 65-nm CMOS

• Main Authors: Le, Van Loi, Kim, Tony Tae-Hyoung
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Current Mirror; Level Shifter; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105835; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48774; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2018.2820155
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This brief presents an ultra-low voltage level shifter (LS) with fast and energy-efficient voltage conversion from the deep subthreshold region to the superthreshold region. The proposed LS achieves better performance and increased energy efficiency by addressing the reduced swing and the slow fall...