Kristof Dens, Joren Vaes, Simon Ooms, M. Wagner, P. Reynaert
{"title":"A PAM4 Dielectric Waveguide Link in 28 nm CMOS","authors":"Kristof Dens, Joren Vaes, Simon Ooms, M. Wagner, P. Reynaert","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567741","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a dielectric waveguide communication link at 135 GHz, reaching 27 Gb/s non-return to-zero (NRZ) communication without any equalization at a bit-error-rate (BER) below 10−12 and up to 50 Gb/s 4-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) over 3 m of fiber at a BER below 10−6 when equalization is applied. This work is the first to break the 25 Gb/s barrier at distances of 1 m and above. These results are achieved by combining a low power, multilevel mm-wave transceiver with a coupler on printed circuit board (PCB) and a fiber design optimized for low dispersion.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121002846","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}
Bozhi Yin, H. Gevorgyan, Deniz Onural, A. Khilo, M. Popović, V. Stojanović
{"title":"Electronic-Photonic Cryogenic Egress Link","authors":"Bozhi Yin, H. Gevorgyan, Deniz Onural, A. Khilo, M. Popović, V. Stojanović","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567813","url":null,"abstract":"A novel coherent optical link is proposed to serve as the interconnection technology between the room temperature and cryogenic temperature environment for quantum computing and high-performance superconducting computing. The tradeoff on the energy efficiency of this link is discussed. A prototype optical transmitter is fabricated in the 45RFSOI CMOS process and characterized at the cryogenic temperature. Measurement results show that this optical transmitter is able to be directly driven by superconducting electronics with millivolt-level voltage swing, and the new link has five times better energy efficiency than the traditional intensity modulation, direct-detection link.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121353493","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}
D. Manente, F. Quadrelli, F. Padovan, M. Bassi, A. Mazzanti, A. Bevilacqua
{"title":"A 22–31 GHz Bidirectional 5G Transceiver Front-End in 28 nm CMOS","authors":"D. Manente, F. Quadrelli, F. Padovan, M. Bassi, A. Mazzanti, A. Bevilacqua","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567832","url":null,"abstract":"A bidirectional transceiver front-end in 28 nm bulk CMOS is presented. A transformer-based T/R switch is used to minimize the area occupation without reducing the linearity and the isolation between the transmitter and receiver paths. The transmitter shows a power gain of 19 dB and an output-referred P1dB of 14 dBm. At the 1 dB compression point the PAE is 18.7%. With a 100 MHz 64-QAM OFDM modulated input signal, the EVM is below 5% up to an average output power of 6.6 dBm, with a corresponding PAE of 7%. The receiver has a minimum NF of 4.9 dB, a voltage gain of 17 dB and an IIP3 of -9.2 dBm, while consuming 35 mW. Both TX and RX feature a very wide passband from 22GHz to 31GHz.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126780162","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}
J. Noel, Manuel Pezzin, J. Christmann, Lorenzo Ciampolini, Mikael Le Coadou, Mariam Diallo, Florent Lepin, Benjamin Blampey, Simone Bacles-Min, Romain Wacquez, Mikael Le
{"title":"A Near-Instantaneous and Non-Invasive Erasure Design Technique to Protect Sensitive Data Stored in Secure SRAMs","authors":"J. Noel, Manuel Pezzin, J. Christmann, Lorenzo Ciampolini, Mikael Le Coadou, Mariam Diallo, Florent Lepin, Benjamin Blampey, Simone Bacles-Min, Romain Wacquez, Mikael Le","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567885","url":null,"abstract":"On-chip memories, and in particular SRAMs, are among the most critical components in terms of data security because they might contain sensitive data such as secret keys. Whenever a tampering event is detected, one should be able to erase efficiently and rapidly the full content of a memory holding such sensitive data, but current solutions based on simple power-off lead to very long erasure times. In this paper, we present a non-invasive design technique based on an innovative mechanism to remove electric charges from SRAM bitcells still powered on, before refreshing them with a new content not correlated with the previous one. The particularity of this novel hardware countermeasure is to be natively compatible with any SRAM circuit designed from pushed-rule foundry bitcells. We have designed and characterized an 8kB SRAM in 22nm FD-SOI process technology exploiting the proposed security strategy demonstrating an erase operation accomplished in the nanosecond time scale (versus 295µs with the conventional power-off solution) at the cost of an additional area of less than 5%. We have also shown that our solution is more efficient than a solution without prior erasure consisting in writing identical data to all memory addresses in a single clock cycle (1 ns). The use of the latter drops the ratio of zeroized addresses at 92 %, while increasing the operating energy consumption by 2.1x under nominal operating conditions.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122918011","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}
M. Ezzadeen, A. Majumdar, M. Bocquet, B. Giraud, J. Noël, F. Andrieu, D. Querlioz, J. Portal
{"title":"Low-Overhead Implementation of Binarized Neural Networks Employing Robust 2T2R Resistive RAM Bridges","authors":"M. Ezzadeen, A. Majumdar, M. Bocquet, B. Giraud, J. Noël, F. Andrieu, D. Querlioz, J. Portal","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567742","url":null,"abstract":"The energy consumption associated with data movement between memory and processing units is the main roadblock for the massive deployment of edge Artificial Intelligence. To overcome this challenge, Binarized Neural Networks (BNN) coupled with RRAM-based in- or near-memory computing constitute an appealing solution. However, proposals from the literature tend to involve significant periphery circuit overheads. In this work, we propose and demonstrate experimentally, on a fabricated hybrid CMOS-RRAM integrated circuit, a robust in-memory XOR operation based on a 2 $T$ 2R cell used in a resistive bridge manner. With this architecture, the RRAM read operation and the BNN multiplication operation can be achieved simultaneously, requiring only inverters connected to each Source Line of the memory array, and the BNN POPCOUNT operation can be realized with an analog capacitive neuron. Based on our measurements and extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we validate that this approach is suitable for large neurons with a low error rate (3.12% of error considering the full range of POPCOUNT values). Based on the circuit simulation results, we highlight the resilience of this approach at the network level, with a minimal accuracy degradation on the MNIST (0.07%) and CIFAR-10 (0.35%) tasks with regards to software solutions.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128376607","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 60 GHz QDCO with 11 GHz Seamless Tuning for Low-Power FMCW Radars in 22-nm FDSOI","authors":"F. Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo, E. Roux, C. Enz","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567787","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a 60 GHz Quadrature Digitally-Controlled Oscillator for a low-power Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave radar System-on-Chip. The accurate detection of vital signs requires I and Q demodulation of the received signal. The quadrature coupling is exploited to achieve a seamless and ultra wide frequency tuning range of 11GHz. The oscillator is designed for integration in an All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop. The presented technique allows to simplify the interface with the digital loop filter without the need for an extensive calibration. A wide-band and low-power divider chain is designed as well using dynamic topologies. The circuits are integrated in GF 22-nm FDX CMOS technology and consume between 12.8 and 22.4 mW across the frequency range (17.6mW on average) with a supply voltage of 0.8V.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129228985","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}
D. Marian, D. Soriano, E. G. Marín, G. Iannaccone, G. Fiori
{"title":"Electric-field controlled spin transport in bilayer CrI3","authors":"D. Marian, D. Soriano, E. G. Marín, G. Iannaccone, G. Fiori","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567800","url":null,"abstract":"We explore charge and spin transport properties of bilayer CrI3 controlled by an external electric field. To this aim, we focus on two different device structures, namely ML-source/BL-channel/ML-drain CrI3 and BL-source/BL-channel/BL-drain CrI3, where ML and BL stand for monolayer and bilayer crystals respectively. The electric field is only applied to the central BL-channel of the structure. In the first device, we inject only a single spin from the ferromagnetic ML CrI3 which allows us to study the effect of the electric field in the spin transport properties, i.e. the operation of a spin transistor. The second structure is based on the injection of both spins, that are later filtered by electrically mediated spin-splitting effects, resulting in spin-filter device.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127930455","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}
Chen Cai, Xuqiang Zheng, Yong Chen, Danyu Wu, Jian Luan, Lei Zhou, Jin Wu, Xinyu Liu
{"title":"A 1.4-Vppd 64-Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter with 4-Tap Hybrid FFE Employing Fractionally-Spaced Pre-Emphasis and Baud-Spaced De-Emphasis in 28-nm CMOS","authors":"Chen Cai, Xuqiang Zheng, Yong Chen, Danyu Wu, Jian Luan, Lei Zhou, Jin Wu, Xinyu Liu","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567818","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops a high-swing 64-Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transmitter (TX) implemented in a 28-nm CMOS process. The proposed 4-tap hybrid feed-forward equalization (FFE) employs the fractionally-spaced pre-emphasis (FS-PE) and the baud-spaced de-emphasis (BS-DE). The PE-based FFE enlarges the output swing by directly stacking the distorted pulses, and it naturally consumes less power as it only boosts the desired distorted symbols. Additionally, the FS-based FFE provides a compensation for high-frequency loss beyond f N yquist and the post2 tap equalizes the low-frequency channel loss, which could match the channel attenuation accurately. Combining both the FS-PE-based pre/post1 taps and BS-DE-based post2 tap, the proposed TX achieves a differential output swing of 1.4 Vppd and an energy efficiency of 1.53 pJ/bit, and the eye height and eye width are 198 mV and 0.48 UI at the data rate of 64 Gb/s.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132260214","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}
Naftali Weiss, G. Cooke, P. Schvan, P. Chevalier, A. Cathelin, S. Voinigescu
{"title":"200-GS/s ADC Front-End Employing 25% Duty Cycle Quadrature Clock Generator","authors":"Naftali Weiss, G. Cooke, P. Schvan, P. Chevalier, A. Cathelin, S. Voinigescu","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567791","url":null,"abstract":"A 55nm SiGe BiCMOS ADC front-end is reported with record 200-GS/s sampling rate and SNDR larger than 32 dB and 25.3 dB up to 45 GHz and 63 GHz, respectively. This performance is enabled by the architecture of the front-end with a single level of samplers which maximizes bandwidth and linearity, by the reduced-voltage MOS CML switch, and by a dc-to-62 GHz, 25% duty-cycle non-overlapping quadrature clock generator. The total power consumption of the ADC front-end is 635 mW.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131420143","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":"Fully integrated reflector-based analog predistortion for Ku-band Power Amplifiers Linearization","authors":"N. Deltimple, Potereau Manuel, Ghiotto Anthony","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567737","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analog predistortion abilities to linearize power amplifiers used in satellite and mobile applications. A design example is done in Ku-band downlink satellite communication application with an integrated reflector-based analog predistortion. The proposed solution implements two cells nonlinear load-based AM/AM and AM/PM generation circuits made in a 130nm BiCMOS technology. The measurements performed for different biasing voltages and at different frequencies result in a gain compensation range between 0 dB and 9 dB and a phase compensation range between 0 and 50°. The size of each cell is 0.2 mm2. The total maximum power consumption is as low as 9 mW.","PeriodicalId":129785,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115676996","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}