Microelectronics, Volume. 52, Issue 5, 740(2022)
A High Noise Immunity Capacitive Level Shifter
A high noise immunity capacitive level shifter suitable for half-bridge GaN drivers is proposed. During dV/dt transitions and ringing period of the floating power rail, the proposed level shifter adopted decoupling switches to completely eliminate the common-mode noise that interfere with output states, and adopted dynamic switches to reduce the differential mode noise caused by circuit mismatch. Moreover, high negative voltage tolerance, sub-nanosecond propagation delay, and low power consumption were achieved by adopting capacitive coupling technology. The circuit was designed in a 0.18 μm high-voltage BCD process. The simulation results show that under the level shifting of 50 V, the common mode transient immunity of the level shifter reaches 200 V/ns, the mismatch tolerance reaches 30% at 200 V/ns slew rate, the negative voltage tolerance is up to -5 V, and the average propagation delay is 0.56 ns.
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QIN Yao, MING Xin, YOU Yong, LIN Zhiyi, ZHUANG Chunwang, WANG Zhuo, ZHANG Bo. A High Noise Immunity Capacitive Level Shifter[J]. Microelectronics, 2022, 52(5): 740
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Received: Sep. 5, 2022
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Published Online: Jan. 18, 2023
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