{"title":"A 2.5–12.5Gbps interpolator-based clock and data recovery circuit for FPGA","authors":"Lip-Kai Soh, Wai-Tat Wong","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320515","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a programmable half-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit for plesiochronous serial I/O links. The CDR is implemented in TSMC 28nm high-k metal-gate CMOS technology and covers a continuous range of data rates from 2.5Gb/s to 12.5Gb/s. The higher data rate is achieved by demultiplexing and decimating the sampled data in order for the subsequent circuit to operate at a much lower speed. The CDR is able to track maximum frequency deviation of ±286.78 ppm between the incoming data and the local reference clock at 12.5Gb/s. The CDR occupies a chip area of 18700um2 and consumes 30.30mW of power at 12.5Gb/s.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123026795","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 synthesizable delay cell design for emulation environment","authors":"Tee Kok Khim, Lim Thiam Ern","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320511","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two fully synthesizable and emulation friendly delay cell designs that the authors have successfully implemented in a real emulation environment. Due to the analog nature of delay logics, none of the commercial emulators were able to support the actual delay behavior. Thus, manual additions of register were needed for each customized scenario. The effort required is huge and highly dependent on the complexity of the design. Both of these designs use conventional clock synchronous flip flops and simple logic gates to construct emulation friendly delay cell modules. The first design was constructed to support asynchronous based inputs while the latter design is capable of supporting various types of clock signals. Both of these two proposed designs have two parameters settings. The first parameter is used to configure the multiplier value of intended delay while the second parameter is used to configure the width of the input and output ports. These designs also require a reference clock, reset signal and user input to be connected to their input ports as well. The output from these designs is a delayed version of the user input. Finally the functionality of these designs have been verified on both simulation and emulation platforms.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114136406","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":"Solar Harvested energy prediction algorithm for wireless sensors","authors":"Muhammad Hassan, A. Bermak","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320497","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, wireless sensing nodes are being integrated with ambient energy harvesting capability to overcome limited battery power budget constraint and extending effective operational time of sensor network. Solar panels are more frequently used to collect light energy for wireless sensing node. In order to efficiently utilize solar harvested energy in design, precise solar harvested energy prediction is a challenging task due to irregularity in solar energy patterens because of continually changing weather conditions. In this paper, we are presenting efficient algorithm for solar energy prediction based on additive decomposition (SEPAD) model. In this model, we are individually considering both seasonal and daily trends along with Sun's diurnal cycle. The performance of this algorithm is compared with existing solar energy prediction approaches and results show that our algorithm performance is better than existing approaches.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114504312","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}
Yanan Cheng, L. Chan, Yen-Lung Chen, Yu-Ching Liao, C.N.J. Liu
{"title":"A bias-driven approach to improve the efficiency of automatic design optimization for CMOS OP-Amps","authors":"Yanan Cheng, L. Chan, Yen-Lung Chen, Yu-Ching Liao, C.N.J. Liu","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320476","url":null,"abstract":"The equation-based analog design automation is getting popular in last decade to search the optimal solutions with good efficiency. However, due to the deep-submicron effects, significant modeling errors often exist in major transistor parameters like gds and gm. This often results in wrong prediction of circuit performance and leads to several redesign cycles to meet the specifications. Instead of building complex parameter models for gds and gm, this paper adopts the gm/Id design concept, which is an independent value to the device size, on equation-based optimization to solve the accuracy issue. Without the complex effects from W and L, the modeling accuracy of transistor parameters is significantly improved. No more iteration is required by using the proposed approach, which improves the efficiency as well as the accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that adopts the internal voltages instead of device sizes as the unknown variables to be solved. As demonstrated on several circuits with different objectives, both the accuracy and efficiency of circuit optimization can be improved significantly.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"22 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129037905","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}
A. Omar Mukhtar, Y. Ahmad Jalaluddin, J. Kong, M.S. Aftanasar
{"title":"Impact on signal integrity of differential pair routing over split plane and voids","authors":"A. Omar Mukhtar, Y. Ahmad Jalaluddin, J. Kong, M.S. Aftanasar","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320490","url":null,"abstract":"Differential pair routing on Printed Circuit Board (PCB) level is widely used as interconnection due to its excellent performance in signal integrity. However, differential pair routing is not perfectly immune to the impact of routing discontinuities. This paper analyzes the impact of differential pair microstrip with routing discontinuities by using industrial configuration standard. There are two types of routing discontinuities that are discussed in this paper. They are routing over split plane and routing over void. The results of this research are based on Ansoft HFSS fullwave 3D modeling and analysis simulation. The simulation results consist of three parts which are S-parameter, TDR and full channel transient analysis. The transmission line cross-sectional is based on SATA3 industrial geometry design. From this research, the results show that the impact of differential pair routing with routing discontinuities is significant, in view of signal integrity performance degradation.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130657261","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}
Yi-Hsuan Lee, Yu-Min Lee, L. Cheng, Yen-Tang Chang
{"title":"A robust incremental power grid analyzer by macromodeling approach and Orthogonal Matching Pursuit","authors":"Yi-Hsuan Lee, Yu-Min Lee, L. Cheng, Yen-Tang Chang","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320477","url":null,"abstract":"As VLSI techniques are getting more and more advanced, the size of the power grid network increases dramatically. Therefore, the power grid analysis becomes a challenging task during the design procedure. This work utilizes the macromodeling technique [1] and enhances the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) based method [2] to develop an effective and robust incremental analysis method for the power grid network, MA-OMPt. Given a power grid network, MA-OMPt not only can deal with the change of its element values but also can handle the modification of its topology. The experimental results show that MA-OMPt can be an order of magnitude faster than the OMP-based method [2] which can only deal with the change of element values of the power grid. The experimental results also demonstrate that MA-OMPt can accurately and efficiently handle the modified topology of the power grid network.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115186451","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":"0.5 V, 3 6µW Gm-C Butterworth low pass filter in 0.18µm CMOS process","authors":"V. M. Harishchandra, T. Laxminidhi","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320480","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low voltage, low power continuous-time (Gm-C) 4th order low pass Butterworth filter with a 3-dB bandwidth of 1MHz and capable of operating at supply voltage as low as 0.5V in 0.18 μm. The filter uses bulk-driven technique for achieving the necessary head-room. The simulation results show that the filter has a peak-to-peak signal swing of 1.2V (differential) for 1% THD and a dynamic range of 54 dB. The power consumed by the filter is 36μW when operating at a voltage of 0.5 V. The Figure of Merit (FOM) achieved by the filter is 0.05 fJ and is found to be lowest among the similar filters found in the literature.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114309913","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":"Soft-error hardened redundant triggered latch","authors":"H. K. Alidash, S. Sayedi, V. Oklobdzija","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320514","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a soft error hardened latch suitable for reliable operation. The proposed circuit is aimed to tackle the particle hit effect on the internal nodes, external logic, as well as the pulse generator circuit. The hardening method is based on redundancy to protect internal nodes and filter out transients resulted from combinational logic. It also uses redundant clocking technique which results in more robustness. The circuit is designed in 90nm CMOS technology and simulated with the HSPICE. Simulation results indicate its lower-power and -delay, and ability to recover from single particle strike on internal and clock nodes, and input transient tolerance up to 120ps.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117186463","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}
Chiew Ying Heong, A. Haseeb, G. Yingxin, Lee Seen Fang
{"title":"Effects of Sn concentration and current density on Sn-Bi electrodeposition in additive free plating bath","authors":"Chiew Ying Heong, A. Haseeb, G. Yingxin, Lee Seen Fang","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320517","url":null,"abstract":"Sn-Bi alloys were electroplated from sulphuric acid based plating baths containing tin sulfate (SnSO4) and bismuth nitrate (Bi(NO3)3). The electrochemical behavior of the plating bath was investigated by electrochemical studies. Potentiodynamic polarization curves of the plating bath revealed the large potential gap between the two elements. The effects of SnSO4 concentration and current density on the composition and morphology of the Sn-Bi electrodeposition were investigated. The surface morphology and composition of the Sn-Bi electrodeposited were investigated by scanning electron microscopic (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray (EDS) spectroscopic. The Sn content in the deposits increased with increasing of Sn content in the bath. Bi content was found to decrease with increasing current density because of the more noble deposition potential of Bi. The microstructure and surface morphology of the Sn-Bi electrodeposits become finer and smoother with increasing Sn content in bath but rougher and less compact when current density is increased. Sn-36.47 wt.% Bi alloy was fabricated from this additive free plating bath.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129566320","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":"Formation of Sn-Bi alloys through sequential electrodeposition","authors":"Lee Seen Fang, A. Haseeb, G. Yingxin","doi":"10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACQED.2012.6320493","url":null,"abstract":"The fabrication of near eutectic Sn-Bi alloy can be developed by reflowing a metal stack containing layers of Sn and Bi films. The Sn and Bi metal films are sequentially electroplated using two separate plating baths. Composition control of Sn-Bi alloy can be achieved by manipulating the thickness of constituent metal films. The thickness ratio of Sn to Bi is targeted to be approximately 0.97 to obtain the eutectic composition. Hence, the effect of thickness as a function of time is investigated. The thickness of electroplated layers increased with plating time but a more uniform thickness can be obtained from shorter plating periods. Methane sulphonate acid (MSA) based baths were fabricated for both Sn and Bi plating and the current density used is 20 mA/cm2 and 5 mA/cm2 respectively. Hydroquione (HQ) and gelatin were added into Sn plating solution bath as additives to improve the bath stability. The dual layer metal stack was reflowed at 170°C to enhance the interdiffusion between Sn and Bi layers. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) analyses coupled with Energy Disperse X-ray (EDX) analyses test have been performed to investigate the microstructure and composition of Sn-Bi alloy. Homogeneous microstructure of Sn-Bi alloy is obtained after reflow and near eutectic composition Sn- 54.6 wt.%Bi is achieved.","PeriodicalId":161858,"journal":{"name":"2012 4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130248100","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}