An energy efficient VPP generator with fast ramp-up time for mobile DRAM

Kyu Young Kim; Yonghwan Kim; Doo Chan Lee; Yu Ri Kang; Hoonki Kim; Soo Won Kim; Jongsun Park

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2011.2128170

An energy efficient V_PP generator with fast ramp-up time for mobile DRAM

Kyu Young Kim, Yonghwan Kim, Doo Chan Lee, Yu Ri Kang, Hoonki Kim, Soo Won Kim, Jongsun Park

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Abstract

An energy efficient V_PP generator with fast ramp-up time for mobile DRAM is presented in this paper. Instead of using a fixed pumping clock frequency as in the conventional V_PP generator, the proposed V _PP generator adopts a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and uses variable pumping frequencies to improve the ramp-up time as well as energy efficiency. Numerical results show that the VCO based V_PP generators achieve energy savings of up to 34% with 40% improvement on ramp-up time when compared to the conventional ring oscillator (RO) based design. Our proposed V_PP generator, which uses a three-stage voltage doubler as a charge pump, was implemented and fabricated in CMOS 0.13 μm process. The V _PP generator chip's core occupies 0.6 mm² area and consumes 1162 nJ (average power of 47.8 mW during 24 μs ramp-up time) while generating 3.0 V output voltage with 1.0 nF load capacitor, 2.0 mA current load and 1.2 V supply voltage.

Original language	English
Article number	5767518
Pages (from-to)	1488-1494
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume	46
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2011.2128170
Publication status	Published - 2011 Jun

Keywords

Charge pump
V generator
mobile DRAM
voltage controlled oscillator
voltage doubler

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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