Transformer-Less Floating Gate Driver for 3D Power SoC

Power supply on chip (power-SoC) has been caught attentions because ultimately miniaturize the power supplies. Especially, the 3D power-SoC is attractive and is fabricated using LSI and MEMS process. It is important to meet the various electrical requirements for expanding applications because they are fabricated using mass production process. In such situations, series and/or parallel connections of them is attractive. However, we generally use transformers as power supplies for floating gate driver circuits when we connect DC-DC converters series. Transformers are not suitable for power-SoC because they disturb miniaturization. In this paper, we propose a transformer-less floating gate driver circuit for 3D power SoC.