Patent ID: 8339184

Claim:
A system, comprising: a charge pump comprising: a plurality of switch cells that are configured in relation to each other to form a specified number of cascading charge pump stages comprising one or more pre-output stages and an output stage, wherein switch cells of the plurality of switch cells respectively include a node A and a node B; and a plurality of capacitors including at least a first pre-output stage capacitor and an output-stage capacitor, wherein a first pre-output stage of the one or more pre-output stages includes a first switch cell and a second switch cell of the plurality of switch cells, and the first pre-output stage capacitor, and the node A of the first switch cell of the first pre-output stage is connected to the node B of the second switch cell of the first pre-output stage through the first pre-output stage capacitor, wherein the output stage is connected to at least one of the first pre-output stage or, a subsequent pre-output stage, and the output stage includes an output-stage switch cell connected to the output-stage capacitor, to facilitate generation of an output voltage, wherein at least the first switch cell comprises: at least one charge transfer switch (CTS) configured to control transfer of a high voltage from the node B across the at least one CTS to the node A in response to a gate voltage applied to a gate of the at least one CTS that turns on the at least one CTS, and at least one gate boosting switch control component (GBSCC) configured to apply the gate voltage to the gate to control a switch state of the at least one CTS, based at least in part on an applied clock signal, to facilitate control of the switch state of the at least one CTS to control the transfer of the high voltage from the node B across the at least one CTS to the node A.