A comprehensive study on the design methodology of level shifter circuits

Y Li, J Zhao, Y Liu, G Wang - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The level shifter (LS) circuit has become an indispensable circuit component in both analog
and digital systems. In the past decades, there has been an exponential increase in the …

A wide-range level shifter using a modified Wilson current mirror hybrid buffer

SC Luo, CJ Huang, YH Chu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide-range level shifters play critical roles in ultra-low-voltage circuits and systems.
Although state-of-the-art level shifters can convert a subthreshold voltage to the standard …

An ultralow-voltage energy-efficient level shifter

M Lanuzza, F Crupi, S Rao, R De Rose… - … on Circuits and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents an energy-efficient level shifter (LS) able to convert extremely low level
input voltages to the nominal voltage domain. To obtain low static power consumption, the …

Fast and wide range voltage conversion in multisupply voltage designs

M Lanuzza, P Corsonello, S Perri - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multisupply voltage design technique is widely used in modern system-on-chips to tradeoff
energy and speed. Level shifters (LSs) allow different voltage domains to be interfaced. In …

A low-power subthreshold to above-threshold voltage level shifter

SR Hosseini, M Saberi, R Lotfi - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a power-efficient voltage level-shifter architecture that is capable of
converting extremely low levels of input voltages to higher levels. In order to avoid the static …

A 65-nm 25.1-ns 30.7-fJ robust subthreshold level shifter with wide conversion range

W Zhao, AB Alvarez, Y Ha - … on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Level shifters (LS) are crucial interface circuits for multisupply voltage designs, and it is
challenging to achieve both robust and efficient level conversion from subthreshold to …

Energy-efficient wide-range voltage level shifters reaching 4.2 fJ/transition

R Lotfi, M Saberi, SR Hosseini… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a new level-shifting structure that can convert extremely low levels of
input voltages to high output voltages while maintaining excellent delay and power …

A high-speed and ultra low-power subthreshold signal level shifter

E Maghsoudloo, M Rezaei, M Sawan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel level shifter circuit converting subthreshold signal levels to
super-threshold signal levels at high-speed using ultra low-power and a small silicon area …

A low-power and high-speed voltage level shifter based on a regulated cross-coupled pull-up network

S Kabirpour, M Jalali - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, a fast and very low power voltage level shifter (LS) is presented. By using a new
regulated cross-coupled (RCC) pull-up network, the switching speed is boosted and the …

A coarse-fine VCO-ADC for MEMS microphones with sampling synchronization by data scrambling

A Quintero, C Buffa, C Perez, F Cardes… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a mostly digital analog-to-digital converter implemented with voltage-
controlled oscillators that can directly interface a capacitive MEMS microphone. The ADC is …