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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
May. 18, 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Yen-An Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A semiconductor device and a method of operating the semiconductor device are disclosed. In one aspect, the semiconductor device includes a level shifting circuit configured to generate an output voltage in a second voltage domain corresponding to an input signal in a first voltage domain. The level shifting circuit includes a thick-oxide transistor and a thin-oxide transistor. The semiconductor device includes a bias generating circuit operatively coupled to the level shifting circuit and configured to generate a bias voltage substantially higher than a voltage of the input signal, and provide the bias voltage to a gate of the thick-oxide transistor, causing the level shifting circuit to generate the output voltage.