Patent ID: 9178517
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H03K

Abstract:
1. A circuit, comprising: first and second p-channel fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) devices electrically cross-coupled to one another through an inverter to form a level shifter that shifts a low supply voltage to a high supply voltage, each p-channel FDSOI device including a primary gate and a secondary gate, the secondary gates of the p-FDSOI device being coupled to the high supply voltage; first and second dual-gate n-channel FDSOI devices, each dual-gate n-channel FDSOI device including a primary gate and a secondary gate, the primary and secondary gates of each n-channel FDSOI device being electrically coupled to one another, and each n-channel device coupled to a corresponding one of the p-channel devices; and an inverter having an input and an inverted output, the input electrically coupled to the primary and the secondary gates of the first n-channel device, and the inverted output electrically coupled to the primary and the secondary gates of the second n-channel device.