A 280nW, 100kHz, 1-cycle start-up time, on-chip CMOS relaxation oscillator employing a feedforward period control scheme

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 16-17

  Tokairin, Takashi ^a   Nose, Koichi ^a   Takeda, Koichi ^a   Noguchi, Koichiro ^a   Maeda, Tadashi ^a   Kawai, Kazuyoshi ^a   Mizuno, Masayuki ^a  

^a RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; CHARGING TECHNIQUES; CLOCK GENERATION; CMOS RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; CONTROL SCHEMES; FEED-FORWARD; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; ON CHIPS; START-UPS; STARTUP TIME;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84866604216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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