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A Low Power Antenna Switch Controller IC Adopting Input-coupled Current Starved Ring Oscillator and Hardware Efficient Level Shifter

입력-결합 전류 제한 링 발진기와 하드웨어 효율적인 레벨 시프터를 적용한 저전력 안테나 스위치 컨트롤러 IC

  • 임동구 (한국과학기술원 전기 및 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2012.11.22
  • Published : 2013.01.25
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Abstract

In this paper, a low power antenna switch controller IC is designed using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. To improve power handling capability and harmonic distortion performance of the antenna switch, the proposed antenna switch controller provides 3-state logic level such as +VDD, GND, and -VDD for the gate and body of switch of FETs according to decoder signal. By employing input-coupled current ring oscillator and hardware efficient level shifter, the proposed controller greatly reduces power consumption and hardware complexity. It consumes 135 ${\mu}A$ at a 2.5 V supply voltage in active mode, and occupies $1.3mm{\times}0.5mm$ in area. In addition, it shows fast start-up time of 10 ${\mu}s$.

이 논문에서는 (SOI) CMOS 공정을 이용한 저전력 안테나 스위치 컨트롤러 IC가 설계되었다. 제안 된 컨트롤러는 전력 수용능력과 고조파 왜곡 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 입력 신호에 따라 안테나 스위치를 구성하는 FET소자의 게이트 단자와 바디 단자에 +VDD, GND 그리고 -VDD에 해당하는 3 가지 상태의 로직 레벨을 제공한다. 또한, 입력-결합 전류제한 링 발진기와 하드웨어 효율적인 레벨 시프터를 적용함으로서 전력소모와 하드웨어 복잡도를 크게 감소시켰다. 제안 된 회로는 +2.5 V 전원을 공급받으며 송신 모드에서 135 ${\mu}A$를 소모하며 10 ${\mu}s$의 빠른 start-up 시간을 달성하였고, 전체 면적은 $1.3mm{\times}0.5mm$로 설계되었다.

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