{"title":"A Spurless and Wideband Continuous-Time Electro-Optical Phase Locked Loop (CT-EOPLL) for High Performance LiDAR","authors":"Ali Binaie;Sohail Ahasan;Harish Krishnaswamy","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3120243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3120243","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems are drawing increasing interest due to their potential applications in autonomous driving, machine perception, rapid prototyping, and medical diagnostics. The nonlinearity of a laser’s input-output transfer function can degrade the performance of an FMCW LiDAR. However, traditional discrete-time electro-optical phase-locked loops (DT-EOPLLs) face an unfavorable trade-off between chirp bandwidth and Mach-Zehnder delay. We present an integrated continuous-time electro-optic phase-locked loop (CT-EOPLL) to address this problem. The proposed EOPLL is very wideband, with its loop bandwidth equal to its reference frequency. This feature enables it to relax the trade-off between chirp bandwidth and Mach-Zehnder (MZ) delay by \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$10times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 in dB scale, which consequently reduces the area and loss associated with the silicon photonic delay implementation. It also does not suffer from the challenging issue of spurs in wideband PLLs because it features image and harmonic spur suppression in the loop using single-sideband (SSB) and harmonic-reject (HR) mixing techniques. The electrical part of this EOPLL is implemented in 65nm CMOS technology, and its optical integrated circuit is fabricated using a silicon photonic process. Featuring more than 25dB of suppression of the highest spur, this EOPLL is utilized in a high precision LiDAR sensor that shows an RMS depth precision of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$558~mu text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 at 2m distance, and a 9.4mm RMS depth resolution at ranges exceeding 3.3m.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"235-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09576527.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67861569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Semiconductor-Based Monolithic Optical Phased Array Architectures","authors":"Hossein Hashemi","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3120238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3120238","url":null,"abstract":"Semiconductor-based monolithic optical phased arrays (OPA) enable optical beam-steering for lidar and 3D imaging, free-space optical communications, projection and 3D holographical displays, and neural probes among many other possible applications. This paper provides a review of OPA operating principles, architectures, key building blocks, and remaining research challenges.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"222-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09576119.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67861568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Overview of Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators for On-Device Deep-Neural-Network Training","authors":"Jinsu Lee;Hoi-Jun Yoo","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3119554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3119554","url":null,"abstract":"Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various artificial intelligence (AI) applications due to their overwhelming performance. Furthermore, recently, several algorithms have been reported that require on-device training to deliver higher performance in real-world environments and protect users’ personal data. However, edge/mobile devices contain only limited computation capability with battery power, so an energy-efficient DNN training processor is necessary to realize on-device training. Although there are a lot of surveys on energy-efficient DNN inference hardware, the training is quite different from the inference. Therefore, analysis and optimization techniques targeting DNN training are required. This article aims to provide an overview of energy-efficient DNN processing that enables on-device training. Specifically, it will provide hardware optimization techniques to overcomes the design challenges in terms of distinct dataflow, external memory access, and computation. In addition, this paper summarizes key schemes of recent energy-efficient DNN training ASICs. Moreover, we will also show a design example of DNN training ASIC with energy-efficient optimization techniques.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"115-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09569757.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67860280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lu Jie;Xiyuan Tang;Jiaxin Liu;Linxiao Shen;Shaolan Li;Nan Sun;Michael P. Flynn
{"title":"An Overview of Noise-Shaping SAR ADC: From Fundamentals to the Frontier","authors":"Lu Jie;Xiyuan Tang;Jiaxin Liu;Linxiao Shen;Shaolan Li;Nan Sun;Michael P. Flynn","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3119910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3119910","url":null,"abstract":"The Noise-Shaping (NS) SAR is an attractive new ADC architecture that emerged in the last decade. It combines the advantages of the SAR and the DSM architectures. NS SAR shows excellent potential for high efficiency and low cost, and is highly suited to process scaling. This paper gives an overview of the history of NS-SAR, reviews the fundamentals challenges, and summarizes the latest developments, including advanced loop filtering techniques, DAC mismatch mitigation, kT/C mitigation, and bandwidth boosting. A comprehensive comparison of the state-of-the-art NS-SAR ADCs is provided, and conclusions are derived.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"149-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09569768.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67860283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarrah M. Patanwala;Istvan Gyongy;Hanning Mai;Andreas Aßmann;Neale A. W. Dutton;Bruce R. Rae;Robert K. Henderson
{"title":"A High-Throughput Photon Processing Technique for Range Extension of SPAD-Based LiDAR Receivers","authors":"Sarrah M. Patanwala;Istvan Gyongy;Hanning Mai;Andreas Aßmann;Neale A. W. Dutton;Bruce R. Rae;Robert K. Henderson","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118987","url":null,"abstract":"There has recently been a keen interest in developing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems using Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensors. This has led to a variety of implementations in pixel combining techniques and Time to Digital Converter (TDC) architectures for such sensors. This paper presents a comparison of these approaches and demonstrates a technique capable of extending the range of LiDAR systems with improved resilience to background conditions. A LiDAR system emulator using a reconfigurable SPAD array and FPGA interface is used to compare these different techniques. A Monte Carlo simulation model leveraging synthetic 3D data is presented to visualize the sensor performance on realistic automotive LiDAR scenes.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"2 ","pages":"12-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/9733783/09566373.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67868116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dongyang Jiang;Sai-Weng Sin;Liang Qi;Guoxing Wang;Rui P. Martins
{"title":"Recent Advances in High-Resolution Hybrid Discrete-Time Noise-Shaping ADCs","authors":"Dongyang Jiang;Sai-Weng Sin;Liang Qi;Guoxing Wang;Rui P. Martins","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118668","url":null,"abstract":"High precision data acquisition requires very-high-resolution Analog-to-digital converters (ADC) for kHz speed or to keep a relatively high resolution for wider bandwidth (BW) around the MHz range. Although widely used, noise-shaping (NS) in ADCs offers a high-resolution characteristic, but obtaining good power efficiency and compact die area is still challenging. Recent literature showed promising progress by utilizing hybrid Discrete-Time (DT) NS-ADCs with measured silicon results. This paper focuses its analysis and discussion on two important trending classes: hybrid Incremental ADCs (I-ADC) and hybrid Time-interleaved (TI) NS-ADCs. Furthermore, this paper presents a review and addresses the benefits of those hybrid architectures.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"129-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09564255.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67860281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 240 × 160 3D-Stacked SPAD dToF Image Sensor With Rolling Shutter and In-Pixel Histogram for Mobile Devices","authors":"Chao Zhang;Ning Zhang;Zhijie Ma;Letian Wang;Yu Qin;Jieyang Jia;Kai Zang","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118332","url":null,"abstract":"A 240 \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$times$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 160 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensor integrated with a 3D-stacked 65nm/65nm CMOS technology is reported for direct time-of-flight (dToF) 3D imaging in mobile devices. The top tier is occupied by backside illuminated SPADs with 16 \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$mu {mathrm{ m}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 pitch and 49.7% fill-factor. The SPADS consists of multiple 16\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$times$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u000016 SPADs top groups, in which each of 8 \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$times$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 8 SPADs sub-group shares a 10-bit, 97.65ps and 100ns range time-to-digital converter (TDC) in a quad-partition rolling shutter mode. During the exposure of each rolling stage, partial histogramming readout (PHR) approach is implemented to compress photon events to in-pixel histograms. Since the fine histograms is incomplete, for the first time we propose histogram distortion correction (HDC) algorithm to solve the linearity discontinuity at the coarse bin edges. With this algorithm, depth measurement up to 9.5m achieves an accuracy of 1cm and precision of 9mm in office lighting condition. Outdoor measurement with 10 klux sunlight achieves a maximum distance detection of 4m at 20 fps, using a VCSEL laser with the average power of 90 mW and peak power of 15 W.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"2 ","pages":"3-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/9733783/09565145.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67868220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lab-on-Chip for Everyone: Introducing an Electronic-Photonic Platform for Multiparametric Biosensing Using Standard CMOS Processes","authors":"Christos Adamopoulos;Panagiotis Zarkos;Sidney Buchbinder;Pavan Bhargava;Ali Niknejad;Mekhail Anwar;Vladimir Stojanović","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118336","url":null,"abstract":"The recent pandemic has shown that accurate and on-demand information on various infections requires highly versatile, Point-of-Care (PoC) platforms providing diagnostic and prognostic multiparametric information, personalized to each patient. Despite the significant progress made over the last years in various biosensing technologies, existing solutions fail to meet the power and area requirements needed for highly scalable and portable next-generation PoC devices. This work presents a solution based on a first of its kind fully integrated electronic-photonic platform in a zero-change high volume CMOS-SOI process, tailored towards molecular and ultrasound sensing applications. Leveraging co-integration of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$10mu text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 micro-ring resonators (MRRs) with on-chip electronics, we address the current needs of scalability, power and area by providing nanophotonic sensing and readout processing on a monolithic electronic-photonic system-on-chip (EPSoC). This work unlocks the door towards complete and self-contained Lab-on-Chip (LoC) systems, capable of providing multiparametric biosensing information.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"198-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09563081.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67861566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low Power Clock Generator Design With CMOS Signaling","authors":"Yongping Fan;Ian A. Young","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3118339","url":null,"abstract":"The requirements for computing with higher energy efficiency in the datacenter and for longer battery life in laptop computers, cell phones, and other IoT devices while increasing performance with higher frequency and more cores, drive the needs for more clock generators with increased performance (frequency and jitter) and lower power budgets. The traditional current mode low swing clock generators were used widely in industry about 10 years ago. Although it had the advantage of higher supply noise rejection due to the differential nature of the architectures, however, it had the disadvantages of high-power consumption, large layout area, and not friendly to process scaling. Contrary to current mode low swing design, clock generator architectures with CMOS large swing signaling, which have advantages of low power consumption, small area, and based on circuits friendly to process scaling, have been widely adopted for clocking generation in the industry since 2009. In this paper, phase locked loops, delay locked loops, phase interpolators, high resolution digital to time converter and clock distribution techniques with CMOS large swing signaling will be discussed and reviewed.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"162-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09563068.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67860284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design Methodologies for Low-Jitter CMOS Clock Distribution","authors":"Xunjun Mo;Jiaqi Wu;Nijwm Wary;Tony Chan Carusone","doi":"10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3117930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSSCS.2021.3117930","url":null,"abstract":"Clock jitter negatively affects the performance of sampling circuits such as high-speed wireline transceivers and data converters. With CMOS buffers being increasingly used for the distribution of precise clocks in advanced technologies, it is important to understand their limitations and explore design tradeoffs. This tutorial provides quantitative analyses of the main sources of jitter in CMOS clock distribution: power supply induced jitter, jitter generation, and jitter amplification. Minimizing the number of buffers along the clock distribution network while still maintaining fast rise-fall times and ensuring proper settling of all clock waveforms will minimize the impact of all jitter sources. Following these guidelines can simultaneously reduce power supply noise sensitivity and power consumption of the clock distribution circuits. These conclusions are backed up by simulation and measurement results of two 16-nm FinFET clock distribution networks.","PeriodicalId":100633,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society","volume":"1 ","pages":"94-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8782712/8816720/09559395.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67860278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}