Do-Yeon Yoon, Sonal Pinto, SungWon Chung, P. Merolla, Thong-Wei Koh, D. Seo
{"title":"A 1024-Channel Simultaneous Recording Neural SoC with Stimulation and Real-Time Spike Detection","authors":"Do-Yeon Yoon, Sonal Pinto, SungWon Chung, P. Merolla, Thong-Wei Koh, D. Seo","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492480","url":null,"abstract":"A fully implantable brain-machine interface (BMI) targeting clinical applications has stringent size and power requirements. In this paper we present a 5×4mm2 neural system-on-chip (SoC) capable of recording and stimulating from 1024 implanted electrodes via a serial digital link. The design has on-chip configurable spike detection that can reduce off-chip bandwidth by 1250×. With fully integrated power management circuitry with power-on-reset and brown-out detection, our design consumes 24.7mW total power consumption, making it the lowest-power, highest-density AC-coupled neural SoC reported for recording both local field potential (LFP) and action potential (AP) with a 5Hz-10kHz bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127490601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Single-Supply Single-Core Inverse Class-D Digital Power Amplifier with Enhanced Power Back-Off Efficiency Adopting Output Power Scaling Technique","authors":"Kyung-Sik Choi, J. Ko, Sang-Gug Lee","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492341","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a current-mode inverse Class-D digital PA (DPA) with enhanced power back-off (PBO) efficiency. The PA adopts extra switches, which allows the scaling in the output voltage swing by half, leading to (theoretically) 6 dB enhancement in PBO efficiency while maintaining (ideally) 100% drain efficiency (DE). Implemented in a 65 nm CMOS, the proposed DPA shows the improvement in DE by ×1.5 at 4.2 dB PBO in comparison with normalized Class-B PA while requiring only one transformer and single-supply voltage.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127952118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juhyoung Lee, Jihoon Kim, Wooyoung Jo, Sangyeob Kim, Sangjin Kim, Jinsu Lee, H. Yoo
{"title":"A 13.7 TFLOPS/W Floating-point DNN Processor using Heterogeneous Computing Architecture with Exponent-Computing-in-Memory","authors":"Juhyoung Lee, Jihoon Kim, Wooyoung Jo, Sangyeob Kim, Sangjin Kim, Jinsu Lee, H. Yoo","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492476","url":null,"abstract":"An energy-efficient floating-point DNN training processor is proposed with heterogenous bfloat16 computing architecture using exponent computing-in-memory (CIM) and mantissa processing engine. Mantissa free exponent calculation enables pipelining of exponent and mantissa operation for heterogenous bfloat16 computing while reducing MAC power by 14.4 %. 6T SRAM exponent computing-in-memory with bitline charge reusing reduces memory access power by 46.4 %. The processor fabricated in 28 nm CMOS technology and occupies 1.62×3.6 mm2 die area. It achieves 13.7 TFLOPS/W energy efficiency which is 274× higher than the previous floating-point CIM processor.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116697215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rohit Rothe, Minchang Cho, K. Choo, Seokhyeon Jeong, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw
{"title":"A 192 nW 0.02 Hz High Pass Corner Acoustic Analog Front-End with Automatic Saturation Detection and Recovery","authors":"Rohit Rothe, Minchang Cho, K. Choo, Seokhyeon Jeong, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492374","url":null,"abstract":"We present an acoustic analog front-end with a 100TΩ feedback resistance that is robust to PT variation (1.8× deviation across –40 to 80°C and 0.035× σ/µ across 16 measured samples) and achieves a 3.3× reduction in input referred noise (IRN). It eliminates an input frequency and phase dependent systematic offset introduced by a similar previous technique [5] and introduces automatic saturation detection and feedback resistance modulation for fast amplifier restabilization, yielding 10× improvement in artifact recovery time. The technique was implemented in a 192 nW LNA + PGA + ADC chain.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114988943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Radu, Roy Li, A. Potočnik, T. Ivanov, D. Wan, S. Kubicek, N. D. Stuyck, J. Verjauw, J. Jussot, Y. Canvel, C. Godfrin, M. Mongillo, R. Acharya, A. Elsayed, M. Shehata, X. Piao, A. Pacco, L. Souriau, S. Couet, B. Chan, J. Craninckx, B. Parvais, A. Grill, S. Narasimhamoorthy, S. V. Winckel, S. Brebels, F. Mohiyaddin, G. Simion, B. Govoreanu
{"title":"Solid state qubits: how learning from CMOS fabrication can speed-up progress in Quantum Computing","authors":"I. Radu, Roy Li, A. Potočnik, T. Ivanov, D. Wan, S. Kubicek, N. D. Stuyck, J. Verjauw, J. Jussot, Y. Canvel, C. Godfrin, M. Mongillo, R. Acharya, A. Elsayed, M. Shehata, X. Piao, A. Pacco, L. Souriau, S. Couet, B. Chan, J. Craninckx, B. Parvais, A. Grill, S. Narasimhamoorthy, S. V. Winckel, S. Brebels, F. Mohiyaddin, G. Simion, B. Govoreanu","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492397","url":null,"abstract":"Building quantum computers requires not only a large number of qubits with high fidelity and low variability, but also a large amount of analog and digital components to drive the qubits. Larger arrays of solid-state qubits with high fidelity and low variability require improvements in fabrication processes and array layout design co-optimized with the underlying hardware technology. Here we outline progress on 300mm fabrication of qubit devices and on classical CMOS components to enable the quantum system. We describe work on superconducting qubits and spin qubits in Si, both types of devices fabricated on 300mm experimental platforms and discuss challenges related to variability. Massive electrical characterization is key over wide temperature range is key to enabling system upscaling for QC.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128688716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keonhee Cho, Heekyung Choi, I. Jung, J. Oh, Tae Woo Oh, Kiryong Kim, Gi-Kryang Kim, T. Choi, Changsoo Sim, T. Song, Seong-ook Jung
{"title":"SRAM Write- and Performance-Assist Cells for Reducing Interconnect Resistance Effects Increased with Technology Scaling","authors":"Keonhee Cho, Heekyung Choi, I. Jung, J. Oh, Tae Woo Oh, Kiryong Kim, Gi-Kryang Kim, T. Choi, Changsoo Sim, T. Song, Seong-ook Jung","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492505","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents SRAM write- and performance-assist cells that have bit-cell compatible layouts and thus can be inserted into an bit-cell array without the white space. The proposed cells can effectively resolve the degradation in write-ability and performance caused by the interconnect resistance increased with technology scaling.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131082936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit toward On-chip Interconnection and Distributed Computing","authors":"N. Nishiyama, T. Amemiya","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492356","url":null,"abstract":"Heterogeneous material integration technology gives us freedom of material choices in both electronic and photonic devices. In this presentation, status, technology and characteristics of photonic devices in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on Si (SOI) will be reviewed. Membrane (thin III-V film) PICs can realize low power consumption data transmission on Si substrate. This PICs can be applicable to on-chip interconnection to reduce power dissipation under higher speed transmission. 93 fJ/bit transmission with 20 Gbps has been demonstrated. Hybrid PICs were also demonstrated to realize 10-Tbps-class transceiver with low energy cost for distributed computing. This structure can integrate multiple function and many array devices in one chip. Also, by dense integration, some function of electronics can be moved to photonics part. This enables power consumption reduction.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129741774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 3.68aFrms Resolution 183dB FoMs 4th-order Continuous-Time Bandpass ∆Σ Capacitance-to-Digital Converter in 0.18µm CMOS","authors":"Sujin Park, Hyungil Chae, Seonghwan Cho","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492366","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultra-high-resolution energy-efficient 4th-order continuous-time (CT) bandpass (BP) ∆Σ capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) where thermal noise folding is avoided by CT operation and power is saved by using a BP ∆Σ architecture. The proposed CDC achieves a resolution of 3.68 aFrms at room temperature while achieving a Schreier figure-of-merit (FoMS) of 183dB which is more than 2x improvement over the state-of-the-art CDCs.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125296406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 6.78 MHz Wireless Power Transfer System for Simultaneous Charging of Multiple Receivers with Maximum Efficiency using Adaptive Magnetic Field Distributor IC","authors":"Hao Qiu, M. Takamiya","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492440","url":null,"abstract":"We developed a 6.78 MHz wireless power transfer (WPT) system for simultaneous charging of multiple receiver (RX) coils. On the basis of the transmitter (TX)-RX and RX-RX coupling distinguished by the adaptive magnetic field distributor (AMFD) IC, the distribution of magnetic fields from the TX coils was optimized at each RX coil for the maximum efficiency. A 2-TX 2-RX WPT system was implemented with the AMFD ICs fabricated in 1.8 V, 180 nm CMOS process. Compared with the conventional method, the system efficiency is increased from 8.9 % to 61 % with the load power of 173 mW.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114369116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 20x28 Spins Hybrid In-Memory Annealing Computer Featuring Voltage-Mode Analog Spin Operator for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems","authors":"Junjie Mu, Yuqi Su, Bongjin Kim","doi":"10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492453","url":null,"abstract":"Computationally-expensive combinatorial optimization problems can be solved effectively via finding the ground state of the system by annealing computers. This work proposes a hybrid analog-digital implementation of an annealing computer that achieves 1.58x improvement in the area and >3x reduction in annealing time compared with recent works. The test-chip is fabricated using the 65nm process, and the measured power consumption is 9.9mW at 0.8V and 320MHZ.","PeriodicalId":106356,"journal":{"name":"2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121678073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}