{"title":"Towards Multidimensional Verification: Where Functional Meets Non-Functional","authors":"M. Jenihhin, X. Lai, Tara Ghasempouri, J. Raik","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573495","url":null,"abstract":"Trends in advanced electronic systems’ design have a notable impact on design verification technologies. The recent paradigms of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and CyberPhysical Systems (CPS) assume devices immersed in physical environments, significantly constrained in resources and expected to provide levels of security, privacy, reliability, performance and low power features. In recent years, numerous extra-functional aspects of electronic systems were brought to the front and imply verification of hardware design models in multidimensional space along with the functional concerns of the target system. However, different from the software domain such a holistic approach remains underdeveloped. The contributions of this paper are a taxonomy for multidimensional hardware verification aspects, a state-of-the-art survey of related research works and trends towards the multidimensional verification concept. The concept is motivated by an example for the functional and power verification dimensions.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123857087","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":"An Embedded Programmable Processor for Compressive Sensing Applications","authors":"Mehdi Safarpour, Ilkka Hautala, O. Silvén","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573494","url":null,"abstract":"An application specific programmable processor is designed based on the analysis of a set of greedy recovery Compressive Sensing (CS) algorithms. The solution is flexible and customizable for a wide range of problem dimensions, as well as algorithms. The versatility of the approach is demonstrated by implementing Orthogonal Matching Pursuits, Approximate Messaging Passing and Normalized Iterative Hard Thresholding algorithms, all using a high-level language. Transported Triggered Architecture (TTA) framework is employed for the efficient implementation of macro operations shared by the algorithms. The performance of the CS algorithms on ARM Cortex-A15 and NIOS II processors has also been investigated, and empirical comparisons are presented. The flexible hardware design implemented on an FPGA achieves up to 7.80Ksample/s recovery at a power dissipation of 42$mu$J/sample and beats both ARM and NIOS in total power consumption.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128413479","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":"Design and Implementation of 2D IDCT/IDST-Specific Accelerator on Heterogeneous Multicore Architecture","authors":"Mohammad Ali Pourabed, Sajjad Nouri, J. Nurmi","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573492","url":null,"abstract":"The paper talks about how to implement different sizes of Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) as well as Inverse Discrete Sine transform (IDST) that are dedicated on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard through employing Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) as a template-based accelerators on Heterogeneous Accelerator-Rich Platform (HARP). The proposal designs multi-purpose IDCT/IDST-based accelerators in a manner that the final architecture is made up of 4-point IDST and 4/8-point IDCT. The designing of the accelerators is done by creating template-based CGRA devices at various dimensions after which they are arranged in a sequential manner over a structure that is Network-on-Chip(NoC) based accompanied by a number of RISC cores. The research records the IDCT/IDST-specific accelerator performance, the entire platform’s performance, as well as the traffic of the NoC with regard to the total number of clock cycles made as well as several other high-level metrics of performance. The experiments that were conducted found that 4-point IDCT and 4-point IDST can be totally implemented in 56 clock cycles. For 8-point IDCT, the clock cycles required are 64. The total power dissipation, as well as energy consumption centred on information on routing and post placement, are all equal to 4.03 mW and 1.76 $mu J$ for 4- point IDCT/IDST and 3.06 $mu J$ for 8-point IDCT, respectively. Furthermore, the use of 256 instantiated Processing Elements (PEs) at an operating frequency of 200.0 MHz results to a 51.2 Giga Operations Per Second (GOPS) performance and 0.012 GOPS/mW architectural constant for the HARP model on the 28 nm Altera Stratix-V chip. The architecture under the proposal is capable of fully sustaining a format of Full HD 1080P at 30 fps on FPGA.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114754928","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}
F. Herzel, A. Ergintav, J. Borngräber, D. Kissinger
{"title":"A 15-50GHz Multiplexer Circuit in 130nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology for Ultra-Wide Frequency Ramps in FMCW Radar","authors":"F. Herzel, A. Ergintav, J. Borngräber, D. Kissinger","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573467","url":null,"abstract":"We present a high-speed 2:1 multiplexer for ultra-wideband phase-locked loops (PLL) to be used in FMCW radar systems. The circuit works up to frequencies of 50GHz and allows an instantaneous switching between the outputs of two PLLs. At 30GHz, the measured added phase noise of the MUX is −129.6 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset, and the input isolation at 30GHz is better than 36dB. The core multiplexer circuit excluding buffers occupies a chip area of 0.03mm2 and draws 22m A from a 3V supply. The whole test chip including input buffers, output buffers and bondpads occupies a chip area of 0.4mm2 and draws 95 mA from 3V. An array of two PLLs with overlapping tuning ranges using this multiplexer is proposed for high-resolution, high-precision FMCW radar.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126814293","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. Grozing, J. Digel, Thomas Veigel, R. Bieg, Jianxiong Zhang, Simon Brandl, Martin Schmidt, C. Haslach, Daniel Markert, W. Templ
{"title":"A RF Pulse-Width and Pulse-Position Modulator IC in 28 nm FDSOI CMOS","authors":"M. Grozing, J. Digel, Thomas Veigel, R. Bieg, Jianxiong Zhang, Simon Brandl, Martin Schmidt, C. Haslach, Daniel Markert, W. Templ","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573465","url":null,"abstract":"A pulse-width and pulse-position modulator (PWPM) IC for RF carriers from 170 MHz to 2.8 GHz is presented. The IC features a digital 5 bit pulse-width (PW) and 6 bit pulse-center (PC) input interface, updated at the RF carrier frequency, a small arithmetic unit, two delay locked loops with a new phase detector, two phase selectors, CMOS pulse logic and two differential binary RF outputs. At 900 MHz, a 14 MBd 256-QAM (112 Mb/s) signal with an EVM of 1.83 % and an ACLR of -45 dB is shown. At 2016 MHz, an ultra-broadband 504 MBd 16-QAM (2.016 Gb/s) signal with an EVM of 13.5 % and a BER of 1.5·10-4 is demonstrated. The IC is implemented in a 28 nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) CMOS technology and runs from a 1.0 V supply. It consumes 38 mW at 900 MHz and 58 mW at 2016 MHz carrier frequency.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131342216","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":"Noise Considerations in Pulse-Shaping Based TIA Channel Designed for a Pulsed TOF Laser Radar Receiver","authors":"Aram Baharmast, J. Kostamovaara","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573466","url":null,"abstract":"In this study a detailed noise analysis and measurements of a time-of-flight (TOF) laser radar front-end amplifier are presented, in which an LC pulse shaper is combined with the non-linear feedback Trans-Impedance Amplifier in order to achieve a low noise and wide dynamic range TOF receiver. The noise of the receiver limits the single shot precision and sensitivity (i.e., the dynamic range at low end) of the receiver channel. It is shown that the proposed technique shapes the noise generated by various components of the front-end. Furthermore, in order to achieve the best possible noise performance, various compromises over different characteristics of the front-end (walk error, bandwidth) are discussed. The proposed front-end amplifier was fabricated as a part of a TOF receiver chip in a $0.35,mu mathrm {m}$ standard CMOS process and our measurements show a trans-impedance gain of $sim 122,mathrm{dB}Omega $, a bandwidth of $sim 200$ MHz, and an input-referred equivalent current noise of $sim 60$ nA.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126260028","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}
Muhammad Fahim Ul Haque, Muhammad Touqir Pasha, Tahir Malik, T. Johansson
{"title":"A Comparison of Polar and Quadrature RF-PWM","authors":"Muhammad Fahim Ul Haque, Muhammad Touqir Pasha, Tahir Malik, T. Johansson","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573456","url":null,"abstract":"All-digital implementations of PWM-based wireless transmitters are gaining popularity. Unlike baseband PWM, RF-PWM has relaxed filtering requirements and is preferred due to a smaller chip size. This paper is aimed to highlight the differences between polar and quadrature implementations of RF-PWM-based transmitters. Using mathematical models and simulations, performance of the two implementations is compared. The mathematical analysis indicates that the quadrature implementation is expected to have higher quantization noise compared to the polar because of the shorter duty cycles at maximum amplitude. The simulations, using a 10 MHz LTE uplink signal at 2 GHz carrier frequency, confirm this and also show the effect of RF pulse swallowing on the error vector magnitude (EVM).","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"354 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132339873","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}
Kathy Hanley, Aidan Murphy, Niamh Creedon, A. O’Riordan, Daniel O’Hare, I. O'Connell
{"title":"Current Readout Circuit for Point-of-Care Infectious Disease Diagnostics in Animal Health","authors":"Kathy Hanley, Aidan Murphy, Niamh Creedon, A. O’Riordan, Daniel O’Hare, I. O'Connell","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573507","url":null,"abstract":"Early detection of infectious diseases in animal health, such as Borvine Viral Diarrhoea, is essential to prevention of widespread disease. This paper presents a current readout circuit for interfacing with electrochemical biosensors for point-of-care BVD diagnostics. Focusing on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements, the circuit is composed of a capacitive transimpedance amplifier with a reset switch, and a 12bit SAR ADC. The paper highlights some of the challenges of interfacing with electrochemical sensors for EIS measurements such as flicker noise at low frequencies. An alternative sampling method similar to correlated double sampling is presented, which can be seen to significantly reduce flicker noise without the need for additional chopping.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130255440","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}
David Lemma, Mehran Goli, Daniel Große, R. Drechsler
{"title":"Power Intent from Initial ESL Prototypes: Extracting Power Management Parameters*","authors":"David Lemma, Mehran Goli, Daniel Große, R. Drechsler","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573511","url":null,"abstract":"The increase in digital circuit complexity not only stems from sophisticated functionality, but also from power concerns. Power concerns are addressed via the realization of power intent (the specification for power). Unlike functional specifications, power intent is generally implicit within an initial ESL Prototype. For power intent to become explicit, it needs to be expressed in terms of Power Management parameters. These parameters are major indicators of the efforts involved in realizing the power intent. We introduce an automated method to extract two Power Management parameters (number of Control Signals and Power Modes) from ESL prototypes. These parameters are extracted in a two-step process. First, relevant structural and behavioral information of the prototype is retrieved and translated into an activity profile. Following this, an analysis is performed on the activity profile to extract the power management parameters. The effectiveness and efficiency of the method is demonstrated by its application on several ESL benchmarks.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132037571","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 0.0186 mm2, 0.65 V Supply, 9.53 ps RMS Jitter All-Digital PLL for Medical Implants","authors":"A. R. Palaniappan, L. Siek","doi":"10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHIP.2018.8573491","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-low area and low power all-digital phase locked loop (ADPLL) has been designed for use in biomedical implant applications. The ADPLL can provide a differential output signal with a frequency range from 330 MHz to 470 MHz while operating at a supply of 0.65 V. The proposed ADPLL eliminates the use of LC oscillator and time-to-digital converter for achieving an ultra-low area implementation suitable for biomedical implants. Techniques such as capacitive boosting and fractional capacitor tuning have been applied to the ring oscillator of the proposed ADPLL for achieving good jitter performance. The proposed ADPLL consumes a power of 270.5 $mu$ W at 0.65 V supply while running at an output frequency of 400 MHz and exhibits an rms jitter of 9.53 ps. The ADPLL has been designed in 40 nm CMOS and occupies an active area of only 0.0186 mm2.","PeriodicalId":152077,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129929825","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}