Design and analysis of on-chip charge pumps for micro-power energy harvesting applications

2011 IEEE/IFIP 19th International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 374-379

  Ki, Wing Hung ^a   Lu, Yan ^a   Su, Feng ^b   Tsui, Chi Ying ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

charge balance; charge balance law; charge pump; charge redistribution; charge redistribution loss; on chip charge pump

Indexed keywords

CHARGE BALANCES; CHARGE PUMP; CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; CMOS PROCESSS; CONSERVATION OF CHARGE; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; MICROPOWER; ON CHIPS; PARASITIC CAPACITORS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ENERGY HARVESTING; POWER CONVERTERS;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

EID: 83755219451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSISoC.2011.6081612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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