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A Novel High-speed CMOS Level-Up/Down Shifter Design for Dynamic-Voltage/Frequency-Scaling Algorithm  

Lim Ji-Hoon (Department of Electronic Engineering, Hallym University)
Ha Jong-Chan (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
Wee Jae-Kyung (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
Moon Gyu (Department of Electronic Engineering, Hallym University)
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Abstract
We proposed a new High-speed CMOS Level Up/Down Shifter circuits that can be used with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling(DVFS) algorithm, for low power system in the SoC(System-on-Chip). This circuit used to interface between the other voltage levels in each CMOS circuit boundary, or between multiple core voltage levels in a system bus. Proposed circuit have advantage that decrease speed attenuation and duty ratio distortion problems for interface. The level up/down shifter of the proposed circuit designed that operated from multi core voltages$(0.6\sim1.6V)$ to used voltage level for each IP at the 500MHz input frequency The proposed circuit supports level up shifting from the input voltage levels, that are standard I/O voltages 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V, to multiple core voltage levels in between of $0.6V\sim1.6V$, that are used internally in the system. And level down shifter reverse operated at 1Ghz input frequency for same condition. Simulations results are shown to verify the proposed function by Hspice simulation, with $0.6V\sim1.6V$ CMOS Process, $0.13{\mu}m$ IBM CMOS Process and $0.65{\mu}m$ CMOS model parameters. Moreover, it is researched delay time, power dissipation and duty ration distortion of the output voltage witch is proportional to the operating frequency for the proposed circuit.
Keywords
SoC; SiP; Level shifter; Multiple voltages; Core voltages;
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