Y. Tokunaga, S. Sakiyama, S. Dosho, Y. Doi, M. Hattori
{"title":"A 0.03mm/sup 2/ 9mW Wide-Range Duty-CycleCorrecting False-Lock-Free DLL with Fully Balanced Charge-Pump for DDR Interface","authors":"Y. Tokunaga, S. Sakiyama, S. Dosho, Y. Doi, M. Hattori","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696176","url":null,"abstract":"A duty-cycle-correcting false-lock-free DLL for DDR interface is proposed. A fully balanced charge-pump equalizes the charge and discharge pulses of the phase detector to reduce update noise. The DLL achieved 49% to 51% duty-cycle output from a 30% to 70% duty-cycle input clock operating from 20 to 300MHz, consumes 9mW from a 2 to 4V supply, and occupies 0.03mm2 in a 0.30mum CMOS process","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121727638","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}
S. De Vusser, S. Steudel, K. Myny, Jan Genoe, P. Heremans
{"title":"A 2V Organic Complementary Inverter","authors":"S. De Vusser, S. Steudel, K. Myny, Jan Genoe, P. Heremans","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696152","url":null,"abstract":"A complementary organic thin-film transistor technology uses pentacene and F16CuPc as the p-type and n-type materials, respectively. The semiconductors are patterned by vacuum deposition through an integrated shadow mask, while tilting the substrate. Organic complementary inverters are realized that display an almost ideal inverter curve at a supply voltage of 2V, showing a gain of 14 and a noise margin of 0.65V","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123815242","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 240ps 64b carry-lookahead adder in 90nm CMOS","authors":"S. Kao, R. Zlatanovici, B. Nikolić","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696230","url":null,"abstract":"A 64b adder with a single-execution cycle time of 250ps is fabricated in a 90nm CMOS technology. The adder is designed using an energy-delay optimization framework that can rapidly optimize different microarchitectures in the energy-delay space. The microarchitecture with the lowest delay, a sparse radix-4 Ling parallel prefix tree, is chosen. The carry tree uses footless domino logic to minimize delay while the non-critical paths use minimum-size static logic to reduce energy. The adder consumes 311mW from a 1V supply","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131468391","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}
P. Hazucha, S. T. Moon, G. Schrom, F. Paillet, Donald S. Gardner, S. Rajapandian, T. Karnik
{"title":"A Linear Regulator with Fast Digital Control for Biasing Integrated DC-DC Converters","authors":"P. Hazucha, S. T. Moon, G. Schrom, F. Paillet, Donald S. Gardner, S. Rajapandian, T. Karnik","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696279","url":null,"abstract":"A high-voltage-tolerant 2.4 to 1.2V push-pull linear regulator with 1A output, 288ps response time, and 97.5% current efficiency for biasing integrated DC-to-DC converters is introduced. The regulator occupies 0.03mm2 in 90nm CMOS and achieves 33A/mm2 current density. Digital control with a flash ADC and a digital-to-current converter improve speed-power performance by 3times","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131936347","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 250/spl mu/W 0.042mm2 2MS/s 9b DAC for Liquid Crystal Display Drivers","authors":"I. Knausz, R. Bowman","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696097","url":null,"abstract":"The architecture and design methods are presented for implementing N-bit DACs optimized for small-format LCD column drivers. Individual 9b DACs in a 12-channel QVGA display system occupies a die area of 0.042mm 2. It represents a composite DAC performance of better than 0.60pJ/b/mm2","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"26 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116628008","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}
K. Takeda, H. Ikeda, Y. Hagihara, M. Nomura, H. Kobatake
{"title":"Redefinition of Write Margin for Next-Generation SRAM and Write-Margin Monitoring Circuit","authors":"K. Takeda, H. Ikeda, Y. Hagihara, M. Nomura, H. Kobatake","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696326","url":null,"abstract":"We redefine write margin in order to be able to quantify the effect of both PVT variation and write-margin improvement. A write-margin monitoring circuit based on this definition is implemented in a 90nm CMOS process. This circuit can be applied to an SRAM power supply circuit to improve the write margin","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122283009","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 360-Channel Speech Preprocessor that Emulates the Cochlear Amplifier","authors":"Bo Wen, K. Boahen","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696289","url":null,"abstract":"A cochlea-based preprocessor for speech recognition emulates the fluid ducts with two 4680-element diffusive grids, the basilar membrane with 360 2nd-order sections, and the auditory nerve with 2160 pulse-frequency modulators. Integrated in 10.9mm2in 0.25mum CMOS and consuming 52mW, this silicon cochlea employs active bidirectional coupling, a selective amplification mechanism that sharpens tuning (Q10 is 2.7) and controls gain (24dB compression)","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131228927","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 chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator","authors":"D. Ricketts, D. Ham","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696227","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator, which self-generates a periodic train of electrical soliton pulses. This circuit is made possible by combining a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) with a unique amplifier that tames the instability-prone soliton dynamics in a closed-loop NLTL. This chip-scale prototype produces a pulse width of 293ps and demonstrates the feasibility for future widths close to 1ps, adding a new direction in pulse-based electronics","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134206015","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}
B. Curran, B. McCredie, L. Sigal, E. Schwarz, B. Fleischer, Y. Chan, D. Webber, Vaden Vaden, A. Goyal
{"title":"4GHz+ low-latency fixed-point and binary floating-point execution units for the POWER6 processor","authors":"B. Curran, B. McCredie, L. Sigal, E. Schwarz, B. Fleischer, Y. Chan, D. Webber, Vaden Vaden, A. Goyal","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696229","url":null,"abstract":"A 1-pipe stage, low-latency, 13 FO4, 64b fixed-point execution unit, implemented in a 65nm SOI CMOS process, allows back-to-back execution of data dependent adds, subtracts, compares, shifts, rotates, and logical operations. A 7-pipe stage, 91 FO4, double-precision floating-point unit allows forwarding of dependent results after 6 cycles in most cases","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133180166","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 Programmable MEMS FSK Transmitter","authors":"W. Hsu, Andrew R. Brown, K. Cioffi","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696156","url":null,"abstract":"An FSK transmitter is modulated by changing the polarization voltage of a micromechanical resonator. The transmitter frequency can be programmed from 2 to 437MHz with 1ppm accuracy. The transmitter has 6times greater frequency deviation than quartz-based FSK modulators, 20kb/s data rate, and total 8ppm frequency variation from -40 to 85degC","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132028598","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}