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Our society is governed by computers and other electronic appliances. The technology revolution of the past century has led to an unseen living comfort and everyday life would not be the same without the electronic appliances that entered our life during the past decades.
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The battery voltages depend on the electrochemical properties of materials.
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The maximum voltage rating of CMOS processes is determined by the maximum electrical field (expressed in V/m) the gate oxide can withstand.
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TI is one of the most prominent IC manufacturers in the world.
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The propagation delay is the amount of time between the input of a logic gate is stable and the instant that the output of that logic gate is stable.
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Transistor parameters are subject to aging effects. This means that the transistor parameters change over time, which may results in performance degradation.
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Batteries have an output impedance that depends on the energy contained in the battery.
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For sake of simplicity charging a single capacitor is analyzed but the conclusions can be extended to transfer between two capacitors or more complex structures
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Theoretically efficiency is expressed in terms of power instead of energy, but it is clear that if taken in a periodical repeating process, and under steady state, time cancels out in the equation.
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In integrated processes, an air coil inductor is often used due to the lack of proper core material.
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More information on this topic can be found in (Mike Wens and Michiel Steyaert 2011).
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Some papers erroneously use the words fully integrated or monolithic while partially integrated is obviously a more appropriate term.
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Van Breussegem, T., Steyaert, M. (2013). Introduction. In: CMOS Integrated Capacitive DC-DC Converters. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4280-6_1
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