Analysis of buck converters for on-chip integration with a dual supply voltage microprocessor
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special section on the 2001 international conference on computer design (ICCD)
Cascode Monolithic DC-DC Converter for Reliable Operation at High Input Voltages
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Challenges and design choices in nanoscale CMOS
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
DC-DC converter-aware power management for battery-operated embedded systems
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Extending the lifetime of media recorders constrained by battery and flash memory size
Proceedings of the 13th international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Monolithic Multi-mode DC-DC Converter with Gate Voltage Optimization
Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
A design methodology for integrated inductor-based DC-DC converters
Microelectronics Journal
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The design of an efficient monolithic buckconverter is presented in this paper. A low swing MOSFETgate drive technique is proposed that improves the efficiencycharacteristics of a DC-DC converter. A model of the parasitic impedances of a buck converter is developed. With thismodel, a design space is described which characterizes theintegration of both active and passive devices of a buck converter onto the same die based on a 0.18 µm CMOS technology. The optimum gate voltage swing of a power MOSFETthat maximizes efficiency is shown to be lower than a standard full voltage swing. An efficiency of 88% at a switchingfrequency of 102 MHz is achieved for a voltage conversionfrom 1.8 volts to 0.9 volts with a low swing DC-DC converter. The power dissipation of a low swing DC-DC converter is reduced by 24.5%, improving the efficiency by3.9% as compared to a full swing DC-DC converter.