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A Schmitt Trigger Circuit with Improved Electrostatic Discharge Protection

Abstract: This paper proposes a Schmitt trigger circuit with enhanced Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection. The newly designed circuit uses only four transistors and one resistor to achieve the ...
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BTI and Soft-Error Tolerant Voltage Bootstrapped Schmitt Trigger Circuit

Abstract: This letter presents a novel BTI resilient voltage bootstrapped Schmitt trigger (VB-ST) circuit with improved noise margin, leakage power and rail-to-rail voltage. An only NMOS transistor is ...
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A 32-mV Supply Ring Oscillator Composed of Modified Schmitt Trigger Delay Cells for Integrated Start-Up Circuits in DC Energy Harvesting Systems

Abstract: Implementing fully integrated start-up energy harvesting (EH) systems is very challenging. The most popular start-up circuit implementations use a low-voltage ring oscillator (RO). The ...
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Subthreshold Modeling of a Tunable CMOS Schmitt Trigger

Abstract: In this article, the subthreshold characteristics of a tunable single input CMOS Schmitt trigger (ST) are modeled for the first time. The high-to-low and low-to-high hysteresis transition ...