Level-shifters are an indispensable circuit in multi-power-domain SoCs. Many techniques and architectures have been proposed to enhance the performance of these circuits. Inverter-based level shifters ...

When designing a system, one of the most important design decisions is choosing what voltage domain(s) to use. Some voltage domains, such as 5 V, are good for noisy and harsh operating environments ...

High-voltage level shifters and gate drivers form critical interfaces within power converters, enabling low-voltage control circuits to drive high-voltage power stages reliably and efficiently. These ...

Use of buck-boost circuits in switching-regulator ICs. Considerations in level-shift circuit design. Switching regulators with internal level shifting. The magnitude of the negative voltage generated ...

If your introduction to digital electronics came more years ago than you’d care to mention, the chances are you did so with 5V TTL logic. Above 2V but usually pretty close to 5V is a logic 1, below ...

Multi-voltage designs are increasingly common in ICs for mobile devices, but can be difficult to implement. The design flows for multi-voltage architectures are inherently complex and present many new ...

Minimizing power consumption is a major factor that contributes to the modern-day development of IC designs, especially in the consumer electronics segment. The heating of the devices, the time it ...

We’ll take a guess that most readers have a set of digital calipers somewhere close to hand right now. The cheapest ones tend to be a little unsatisfying in the hand, a bit crusty and crunchy to use.

This idea describes a circuit that converts a low-phase-noise sinusoidal signal into a low-jitter square wave, suitable to drive analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The square wave's amplitude and ...