A 100-MHz Breakdown-Resilient Power Converter With Fully Monolithic Implementation on Nanoscale CMOS Process

Power Losses in Monolithic Buck DC-DC Converter Designed on CMOS 0.35 μm Technology

This paper includes investigations of power losses in monolithic buck dc-dc converter designed with Cadence on CMOS 0.35 μm process. Input voltage of the designed circuit is equal to 3.6 V and output voltage is regulated to 1.2 V. Evaluated and estimated are power dissipations in the MOS transistor, filter inductor and filter capacitor of the buck converter. Investigated and compared are losses...

Fully depleted, thick, monolithic CMOS pixels with high quantum efficiency

The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) has an active programme of evaluating and designing Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors with high quantum efficiency, for applications in near-infrared and X-ray photon detection. This paper describes the performance characterisation of CMOS devices made on a high resistivity 50 μm thick p-type substrate with a particular focus on...

A Fully-Integrated Buck Converter Design and Implementation for On-Chip Power Supplies

A 5V-2.5V fully-integrated low-power buck converter was designed and implemented using 0.5μm CMOS technology. The critical circuits of the high frequency controller and an on-chip multi-layer spiral inductor were presented. The structure of multi-layer spiral inductor having parallel and series branches of the metal strip. As the result that the parallel branching structure greatly reduced the ...

Fully Integrated CMOS Power Amplifier

Monolithic RF Class-E power amplifier on CMOS technologies

With the advancement of CMOS technology, the trend is to design transceivers using this technology with the aim of achieving full integration and reduced system cost. The power amplifier (PA) being one of the most important blocks of the wireless communication system is no exception. The aim of this work is to provide the study that allow the design of a singleended RF CMOS Class-E power amplif...