This paper presents a novel overvoltage protection technique for ultrasonically powered microsystems. The proposed idea benefits from voltage-current characteristics of the piezoelectric harvesters, and limits the amplitude of the harvested signal by regulating the current consumption of the system. For this purpose, a low-area low-power overvoltage regulator is proposed, analyzed and simulated in transistor level in standard TSMC 0.18μm CMOS technology occupying a silicon area of 285μm. Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary power consumption of the overvoltage regulator, it is proposed to take advantage of an ultrasonic burst detection block to deactivate the regulator in the absence of ultrasonic waves. According to our simulation results, the quiescent power consumption of the proposed circuit in the presence and absence of ultrasonic waves are 37 and 3μW respectively, and the minimum phase margin of the negative feedback loop is 68 degree.
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