A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications

Tianyu Jia; Jie Gu

doi:10.1109/ASSCC.2018.8579285

A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications

Tianyu Jia, Jie Gu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, a fully integrated, LC-oscillator based buck regulator is presented for low power applications. The proposed design uses a self-resonator as both high-speed clock source and a resonant switch driver for the regulator, which not only achieves significantly improved energy efficiency at 2GHz switching frequency but also delivered a high-quality clock source eliminating requirement of the external high-speed clocks. Measurement on a 65nm testchip shows a wide tuning range from 0.35V to 0.82V with an input voltage 1.1V. The proposed design achieves a peak efficiency of 70.3% and an autonomous clock-less operation. The regulator core area is only 0.079mm ² .

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	179-182
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538664124
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2018.8579285
State	Published - Dec 14 2018
Event	2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Nov 5 2018 → Nov 7 2018

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Name	2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings

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Conference	2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Tainan
Period	11/5/18 → 11/7/18

Funding

Acknowledgment This work is supported in part by NSF grants CCF-1618065. thank Integrand Software, Inc. for supporting EMX simulation.

Keywords

Buck regulator
fully integrated
input-clock free
low power applications
resonant switching

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Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Jia, T., & Gu, J. (2018). A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications. In 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings (pp. 179-182). Article 8579285 (2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2018.8579285

Jia, Tianyu ; Gu, Jie. / A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications. 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 179-182 (2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings).

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Jia, T & Gu, J 2018, A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications. in 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings., 8579285, 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 179-182, 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018, Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China, 11/5/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2018.8579285

A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications. / Jia, Tianyu; Gu, Jie.
2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 179-182 8579285 (2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings).

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Jia T, Gu J. A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications. In 2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. p. 179-182. 8579285. (2018 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2018 - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ASSCC.2018.8579285

A Fully-integrated LC-Oscillator Based Buck Regulator with Autonomous Resonant Switching for Low-Power Applications

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