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High Voltage Tolerant Level Shifters and DCVSL in Standard Low Voltage CMOS Technologies

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In this article, high voltage tolerant level shifters with combinational functionality are proposed based on differential cascode voltage switch logic (DCVSL), which are tolerant to supply voltages higher than the process limit for individual CMOS transistors.
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In this paper, high voltage (HV) tolerant level-shifters with combinational functionality are proposed based on differential cascode voltage switch logic (DCVSL). These level-shifters are tolerant to supply voltages higher than the process limit for individual CMOS transistors. The proposed HV DCVSL level shifters are particularly useful when it is mandatory to ensure a specific behavior during out of the normal mode periods (power up; power down; reset; etc.). These high voltage tolerant logic circuits were used in the power block of buck converter designed in a standard 3.3 V, 0.13 mum CMOS process, powered by an input voltage range from 2.7 V to 4.2 V.

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