Low leakage CMOS power mux
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorChun-Ying Chen
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Abstract
A power supply multiplexing circuit including a first supply voltage input. A first pair of cascoded PMOS transistors are in series with the first supply voltage input. A first native NMOS transistor is in series with the first pair of cascoded PMOS transistors. Also, a second supply voltage input and a second pair of cascoded PMOS transistors are in series with the second supply voltage input; and a second native NMOS transistor in series with the second pair of cascoded PMOS transistors. The gates of the first and second native NMOS transistors are driven by two control signals out of phase with each other, and sources of the first and second native NMOS transistors are connected together to output an output voltage.
Claims7
A power supply multiplexing circuit comprising:
- a first pair of cascoded PMOS transistors and a first native NMOS transistor in series with a first supply voltage input, wherein the first supply voltage input is coupled to a drain of the first pair of cascoded PMOS transistors, and
- a second pair of cascoded PMOS transistors and a second native NMOS transistor in series with a second supply voltage input, wherein the second supply voltage input is coupled to a drain of the second pair of cascoded PMOS transistors,
- wherein the first and second native NMOS transistors are turned on and off out of phase with each other so as to select between one the first supply voltage input and the second supply voltage input at an output of the power supply multiplexing circuit.
A power supply multiplexing circuit comprising:
- two half-cells, each half cell including:
- in series, a first cascoded PMOS transistor connected to a corresponding supply voltage at a drain of the first cascoded PMOS transistor,
- a second cascoded PMOS transistor, and
- a native NMOS transistor;
- wherein the native NMOS transistors of the two half-cells are turned on and off out of phase with each other;
- and wherein the supply voltages of the two half cells include first and second supply voltages that are different from each other.
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