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Presentation 2016-11-28 12:45
2-step Charge Pump Voltage Booster Circuit for Micro Energy Harvesting
Tomoya Kimura, Hiroyuki ochi (Ritsumeikan Univ.) VLD2016-46 DC2016-40
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This report proposes L1L5-type 2-step charge pump circuit that is suitable for boosting efficiently the subthreshold input voltage obtained by on-chip solar cell to high voltage around 4V. Conventional cross-coupled charge pump needs 10 stages to obtain 4V output even if 40 pF capacitors are allowed, and its 800 pF capacitance in total occupies large amount of chip area, which poses difficulty in implementing it on the same chip with solar cells. The proposed circuit consists of the first-step charge pump that boosts the subthreshold-level input voltage to superthreshold-level and the second-step charge pump that generates even higher voltage using the clock of superthreshold-level voltage swing. Under the constraints of 100 pF total capacitance, we compared the power efficiency of our circuit with the conventional cross-coupled charge pump using circuit simulation with 0.18$mu$m CMOS technology model, and observed that the proposed circuit achieves 46.4% power efficiency at 4V output voltage, which is 5.2% higher than the conventional cross-coupled charge pump.
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(in English) Micro Energy Harvesting / Voltage Booster Circuit / Ultra Low Power / Subthreshold Circuit / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 330, VLD2016-46, pp. 13-18, Nov. 2016.
Paper # VLD2016-46 
Date of Issue 2016-11-21 (VLD, DC) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee VLD DC CPSY RECONF CPM ICD IE  
Conference Date 2016-11-28 - 2016-11-30 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Ritsumeikan University, Osaka Ibaraki Campus 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2016 -New Field of VLSI Design- 
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Conference Code 2016-11-VLD-DC-CPSY-RECONF-CPM-ICD-IE 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) 2-step Charge Pump Voltage Booster Circuit for Micro Energy Harvesting 
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Keyword(1) Micro Energy Harvesting  
Keyword(2) Voltage Booster Circuit  
Keyword(3) Ultra Low Power  
Keyword(4) Subthreshold Circuit  
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1st Author's Name Tomoya Kimura  
1st Author's Affiliation Ritsumeikan University (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hiroyuki ochi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Ritsumeikan University (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
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Date Time 2016-11-28 12:45:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for VLD 
Paper # VLD2016-46, DC2016-40 
Volume (vol) vol.116 
Number (no) no.330(VLD), no.331(DC) 
Page pp.13-18 
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Date of Issue 2016-11-21 (VLD, DC) 


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