Inductors

A 4 × 224 Gb/s Single-Ended PAM-4 Transceiver Front-End With Noise Suppression Technique and Cascaded Equalizers in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS

A 4 × 224 Gb/s Single-Ended PAM-4 Transceiver Front-End With Noise Suppression Technique and Cascaded Equalizers in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS 150 150

Abstract:

A dc-coupled analog single-ended (SE) transceiver (TRX) front-end supporting 224 Gb/s/lane is presented. It features SE-to-differential (S2D) and differential-to-SE (D2S) conversion, power-efficient broadband analog equalization, and noise suppression. Both the transmitter and receiver front-ends adopt pseudodifferential structures with dual-loop regulators to achieve a high power supply rejection …

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A Bi-Directional Dual-Path Boost–Buck Hybrid Converter for High-Voltage Power Transmission Delivery Cable in Humanoid Robots

A Bi-Directional Dual-Path Boost–Buck Hybrid Converter for High-Voltage Power Transmission Delivery Cable in Humanoid Robots 150 150

Abstract:

Humanoid robots have great potential to replace human labors for various tasks in the near future. For a centralized energy storage system in humanoid robots, its battery pack (heart) is located in the main body while the energy is mostly consumed through its legs and hands, demanding thick wires (strong …

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3D-IC Chiplet Integrated Power Supply With LDO, SCVR, and Buck DC–DC Converter

3D-IC Chiplet Integrated Power Supply With LDO, SCVR, and Buck DC–DC Converter 150 150

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With the rapid advancement of chiplet and heterogenous integration technologies, delivering power through the package, redistribution layer (RDL), and chip layers in 3-D space has become a fundamental challenge for high-performance SoCs. This letter provides a comprehensive overview of power delivery solutions, including low-dropout regulator (LDOs), switched capacitor converters, and …

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A Zero-Voltage Switching Buck Converter With Enhanced Efficiency Over a Wide Load Range

A Zero-Voltage Switching Buck Converter With Enhanced Efficiency Over a Wide Load Range 150 150

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This article presents a wide-input-range buck converter featuring a conduction-loss-minimized zero-voltage switching (ZVS) technique. The proposed ZVS topology enables accurate ZVS operation across a wide range of input voltage ( $V_{\mathrm {IN}}$ ) and load current ( $I_{\mathrm {O}}$ ). By keeping the auxiliary inductor current pulse in the ZVS branch separate …

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A Two-Stage 12–1-V Converter Featuring Regulated Resonant SC Regulators and Collaborative Control Scheme

A Two-Stage 12–1-V Converter Featuring Regulated Resonant SC Regulators and Collaborative Control Scheme 150 150

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In the field of power converters for data centers, the two-stage architecture has received widespread attentions due to its various advantages. Especially, the switched-capacitor voltage regulator (SCVR) becomes popular as the second-stage converter owing to its high efficiency and power density. However, the SCVR suffers from poor voltage regulation and …

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A Low-EMI, High-DR Class-D Audio Amplifier With Double-Sided Voltage-Boosting Modulation

A Low-EMI, High-DR Class-D Audio Amplifier With Double-Sided Voltage-Boosting Modulation 150 150

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This article presents a digital-input class-D audio amplifier (CDA) that employs a double-sided voltage-boosting (DSVB) modulation scheme, integrating a capacitively coupled chopper amplifier (CCCA) with a single-inductor buck–boost power stage. The CCCA achieves a high dynamic range (DR) due to its very low noise floor and is implemented with …

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A 0-to- 10μF Off-Chip Output Capacitor-Scalable Boost Converter Achieving 96.68% Peak Efficiency

A 0-to- 10μF Off-Chip Output Capacitor-Scalable Boost Converter Achieving 96.68% Peak Efficiency 150 150

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This letter presents an off-chip output capacitor (CO)-scalable (OCS) boost converter. The proposed OCS boost converter is possible to operate both with and without the off-chip CO. In addition, it operates in a whole conversion ratio (CR) range over 1 while maintaining a small current ripple of an inductor, resulting …

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Digital Low-Dropout Regulator-Assisted Buck DC-DC Converter Achieving 68-mV Droop Voltage and 95.5% Efficiency

Digital Low-Dropout Regulator-Assisted Buck DC-DC Converter Achieving 68-mV Droop Voltage and 95.5% Efficiency 150 150

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This paper proposes a digital low-dropout regulator (DLDO)-assisted buck converter featuring one-step computational droop compensation and DLDO feedback-controlled current handover. The 28-nm test chip achieves a 68-mV droop voltage and a 112-ns settling time for a 1A/0.8ns load step while maintaining a high peak efficiency of 95.5%.

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A Multi-Core Series-Resonance CMOS Oscillator

A Multi-Core Series-Resonance CMOS Oscillator 150 150

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Multi-core and series-resonance (SR) techniques have been proposed to achieve ultra-low phase noise (PN) performance. In this article, a scalable ring-coupling scheme is proposed for multi-core expansion. The mechanism provides intrinsic oscillation and PN reduction without compromising the passive network, specifically tailored for the SR oscillator. The dual closed ring …

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