Bootstrapped fall-swing CMOS driver for low supply voltage operation

Abstract

This paper reports a high speed and low power consumption direct-indirect bootstrapped full-swing CMOS inverter driver circuit (bfi-driver). The simulation results, based on O.lSjUm triple well CMOS technology, show that, when operated at IV, bfi-driver is 94% faster and consumes 22% less power compared to a counterpart direct bootstrap circuit [1].