A reference-free voltage sensing method based on transient mode switching

Konferenz: PRIME 2012 - 8th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics & Electronics
12.06.2012-15.06.2012 in Aachen, Germany

Tagungsband: PRIME 2012

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Syranidis, Ioannis; Xia, Fei; Yakovlev, Alex (School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Newcastle University)

Inhalt:
A novel voltage sensing method based on the depen- dence of the operating mode of a circuit on the supply voltage is proposed. The method is applied on an even stage ring oscillator with the inherent property of switching between oscillating and latching modes at certain Vdd levels. A set of techniques used for the analysis and simulation results are presented. Index Terms — voltage sensing, oscillator, dynamical system