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HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering B Volume 2, Issues 3-4, pp. 386-397 © 2005 Holon Academic Institute of Technology | ||||
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Towards an on-chip boost switching power converter: | ||||
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Electronic Engineering Department, Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain *Corresponding author: ealarcon@eel.upc.edu Received 1 March 2005, accepted 7 June 2005 | ||||
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This work presents the design space exploration of a boost switching power converter focused on its monolithic implementation. An analysis in terms of the models of its main circuit elements (switching transistors, inductor, and capacitor) is described. The figure of merit is defined taking into account output voltage ripple, power efficiency, and occupied die area as performance indexes, from which a singular point that maximizes performance is obtained. Transistor-level simulation results for a particular 0.35 mm standard CMOS technology are presented to validate the approach. | ||||
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