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Investigation of On-Chip Inductors for Fully Integrated DC-DC Converters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- On-silicon inductors using a bulk 0.18 {\mu}m CMOS process have been designed. By shunting different metal layers in parallel, inductor values and quality factors were simulated. Selected inductors were then employed in two open-loop buck converters for comparison: the first used an off-chip discrete diode, and the second used an on-chip active diode. All inductors and converters were sent for fabrication. The fabricated inductors were then measured to have values more than 250 nH over a wide range of frequency, validating the simulation results. The buck converters were switched at 30 MHz with a fixed duty ratio of 0.5, to generate an output voltage of 1.2 V from an input voltage of 2.4 V. The peak efficiency was measured to be 69.1% for a light load current of 12.9 mA.<br />Comment: Submitted to IEEE APCCAS 2019
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1909.13622
- Document Type :
- Working Paper