Low Power – Area Efficient Multiplexer

restructuring for VLSI implementation

 Fast and Wide Range Voltage Conversion in Multi supply Voltage Designs
Level shifter (LS) is inserted between two modules
when low voltage drives high voltage modules. Multi
supply voltage is used to reduce the static and dynamic
power consumption.

Multi supply voltage domain (MSVD) technique

consists of portioning the design into separate voltage
domain. So the time critical domain runs at higher
power supply voltage where non-critical domain is
runs at lower power supply voltage.
Advantages
high-speed performances
supports a wide voltage conversion range.
Disadvantages
more complex level shifter topologies are required
to up-convert signals from the lower to the higher
power supply domain
a new low-power level shifter is presented for robust
Low Power Level Shifter for Multi-Supply Voltage Designs

logic voltage shifting from near/sub-threshold to

above-threshold domain.

The new circuit combines the multi-threshold CMOS

technique along with novel topological modifications
to guarantee a wide voltage conversion range with
limited static power and total energy consumption
Advantages
energy and static power consumption.

Disadvantages
leakage power (Multi supply voltage design)
An Energy- Efficient Sub-threshold Level Converter in 130nm CMOS
a fast energy-efficient level converter capable of
converting an input signal from subthreshold voltages
up to the nominal supply voltage.

 Measured results from a 130-nm test chip show robust

conversion from 188 mV to 1.2 V with no intermediate
supplies required. A combination of circuit methods
makes the converter robust to the large variations in
the current characteristics of subthreshold circuits. 
Advantages
lower the power dissipation
make the circuit faster

Disadvantages
Below threshold voltage conversion
Thank you