{"title":"A low-power microcontroller having a 0.5 /spl mu/A standby current on-chip regulator with dual-reference scheme","authors":"M. Hiraki, K. Fukui, T. Ito","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2003.1221156","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a microcontroller having a 0.5 /spl mu/A standby current on-chip regulator. To save regulator area, we propose a dual-reference scheme in which one voltage reference circuit is provided for active mode and another voltage reference circuit is provided for standby mode. The dual-reference scheme reduces regulator area by 50% compared with a conventional scheme in which one voltage reference circuit is commonly used both in active mode and standby mode.","PeriodicalId":270304,"journal":{"name":"2003 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37408)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2003 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37408)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2003.1221156","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a microcontroller having a 0.5 /spl mu/A standby current on-chip regulator. To save regulator area, we propose a dual-reference scheme in which one voltage reference circuit is provided for active mode and another voltage reference circuit is provided for standby mode. The dual-reference scheme reduces regulator area by 50% compared with a conventional scheme in which one voltage reference circuit is commonly used both in active mode and standby mode.