Abstract:
The charge pump circuit includes multiple boosting stages, and each stage includes following units. A first switch circuit is controlled by a first clock signal to couple a second terminal of a first capacitor to a first input terminal or a second input terminal. A third switch circuit is controlled by a second clock signal to couple a second terminal of a second capacitor to the first input terminal or the second input terminal. A second switch circuit is controlled by electric potentials on the second capacitor to couple a first terminal of the first capacitor to the first input terminal or an output terminal. The fourth switch circuit is controlled by electric potentials on the first capacitor to couple a first terminal of the second capacitor to the first input terminal or the output terminal.
Abstract:
A regulator includes a capacitor connected between a ground terminal and an output terminal at which a first voltage is supplied. The first voltage is higher than a power source voltage supplied to the regulator. A feedback circuit in the regulator is configured to output a boost signal corresponding to a comparison between the first voltage and a threshold voltage value. A clock generating circuit includes an oscillator circuit that outputs an oscillation signal and a buffer circuit that outputs a clock signal according to the oscillation signal. The clock signal has an electric current level that is controlled in accordance with the boost signal. A charge pump outputs the first voltage in accordance with the clock signal.
Abstract:
A regulator includes a capacitor connected between a ground terminal and an output terminal at which a first voltage is supplied. The first voltage is higher than a power source voltage supplied to the regulator. A feedback circuit in the regulator is configured to output a boost signal corresponding to a comparison between the first voltage and a threshold voltage value. A clock generating circuit includes an oscillator circuit that outputs an oscillation signal and a buffer circuit that outputs a clock signal according to the oscillation signal. The clock signal has an electric current level that is controlled in accordance with the boost signal. A charge pump outputs the first voltage in accordance with the clock signal.
Abstract:
A charge pump system uses a helper pump to use in generating a boosted clock signal to use for the stages capacitor of a charge pump and also for the gate clock of the stage. This can be particularly useful in applications with lower supply levels, where a the helper pump can be used to provide an amplitude higher than the supply level, that can then be added to the supply level for the boosted clock signal and then added again to the supply level for the gate clock. Further advantages can be obtained by using the helper or auxiliary pump as an input to an optimized inverter circuit that receives an input clock and has an output that initially rises to the supply level than subsequently to the auxiliary pump's level.
Abstract:
A double-swing clock generator includes a first double-swing clock generation circuit and a second double-swing clock generation circuit. The first double-swing clock generation circuit is used for receiving a first voltage, a second voltage, a first clock, an inverse first clock, and a third voltage, and outputting a first double-swing clock. The second double-swing clock generation circuit is used for receiving a fourth voltage, the second voltage, the first clock, the inverse first clock, and the third voltage, and outputting a second double-swing clock.
Abstract:
A pump circuit includes a first clock generation unit, a second clock generation unit and a pumping stage unit. The first clock generation unit is configured to generate a first clock with a first amplitude by using an input clock and an external voltage. The second clock generation unit is configured to generate a second clock with a second amplitude larger than the first amplitude by using the input clock and an amplified voltage generated by amplifying the external voltage. The pumping stage unit is configured to increase an input voltage using the first clock and the second clock and generate amplified output voltages.
Abstract:
A high voltage generator includes a negative bias generator configured to generate a negative bias, a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal that toggles between a positive bias and the negative bias, a clock doubling circuit configured to raise the positive bias of the clock signal and to output the clock signal having the raised positive bias as a second clock signal, and a charge pump configured to generate a high voltage using the second clock signal having the raised positive bias.
Abstract:
A clock control circuit is provided. The clock control circuit includes a voltage supplier for supplying a first voltage in response to a first clock signal, a voltage booster for boosting the first voltage in response to the first clock signal input to the voltage booster, and a clock generator for generating a second clock signal having a voltage level equal to the boosted first voltage in response to the first clock signal.
Abstract:
A supply voltage conversion circuit allowing fabrication of a charge pump circuit having a large current capability with a small area is provided. In a charge pump DC-DC converter (10) for converting a supply voltage VDD1 to a supply voltage VDD2, a level shifter (12) implements amplitude conversion to convert from a control pulse with amplitude of VSS-VDD1 to a control pulse with amplitude of VSS-VDD2. By using the control pulse having the converted amplitude as a pumping pulse, a flying capacitor (C11) is charged/discharged by MOS transistors (Qp11), and (Qn11) of a charge pump circuit (11), and switching of MOS transistors (Qn12), and (Qp12) coupled to the output of the flying capacitor (C11) is controlled.
Abstract:
In a step-up apparatus, a first level shift circuit receives a first clock signal to generate two phase-opposite second clock signals, and a second level shift circuit receives the first clock signal to generate two phase-opposite third clock signals. A charge pump circuit steps up a power supply voltage at a power supply voltage terminal using the second clock signals to generate a positive voltage, and a polarity inverting circuit inverts the positive voltage using the third clock signals to generate a negative voltage whose absolute value is the same as the positive voltage. A high level of the second clock signals is not higher than the positive voltage, and a low level of the second clock signals is not lower than a voltage at a ground terminal. A high level of the third clock signals is not higher than the power supply voltage, and a low level of the third clock signals is not lower than the negative voltage.