Integrated Cold-Start of a Boost Converter at 57mV using Cross-Coupled Complementary Charge Pumps and

Soumya Bose1, Tejasvi Anand1, Matthew L Johnston1

  • 1School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
|November 15, 2019
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