{"title":"A 10b 50MS/s pipelined ADC with opamp current reuse","authors":"S. Ryu, B. Song, K. Bacrania","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696119","url":null,"abstract":"Power-saving techniques such as opamp current reuse and capacitive level shift reduce the power consumption of a 10b pipelined ADC to 220muW/MHz. A 50MS/S prototype in 0.18mum CMOS consumes 18mW (11mW for analog) at 1.8V and occupies 1.1times1.3mm2. The measured ENOB of the ADC is 9.2b (8.8b) for a 1MHz (20MHz) input","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"100 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":"127165341","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}
V. Petrescu, Marcel J. M. Pelgrom, H. Veendrick, P. Pavithran, J. Wieling
{"title":"A Signal-Integrity Self-Test Concept for Debugging Nanometer CMOS ICs","authors":"V. Petrescu, Marcel J. M. Pelgrom, H. Veendrick, P. Pavithran, J. Wieling","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696283","url":null,"abstract":"A fully integrated signal-integrity self-test concept is implemented in a 90nm CMOS process. The outputs of different analog monitors are locally converted to digital form and then transported through a test-compatible scan chain. The temperature monitor has 4b resolution. The supply-noise monitor detects 10ps-wide pulses of 20mV. The total area overhead is <0.1%","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"12 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":"127235020","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":"ESD Protection for Mixed-Voltage I/O in LowVoltage Thin-Oxide CMOS","authors":"M. Ker, W. Chang, Chang-Tzu Wang, Wen-Yi Chen","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696284","url":null,"abstract":"An ESD protection design for 1.2V/2.5V mixed-voltage I/O interfaces is discussed. A high-voltage-tolerant power-rail ESD clamp circuit is used; it is realized with low-voltage devices in a 0.13mum CMOS process. The four-mode ESD stresses on the mixed-voltage I/O pad and the whole-chip pin-to-pin ESD protection can be discharged by the proposed ESD protection scheme","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"269 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":"123703520","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 2.3GHz LC-tank CMOS VCO with optimal phase noise performance","authors":"P. Andreani, A. Fard","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696108","url":null,"abstract":"The phase-noise theory and design of a differential CMOS LC-tank VCO with double switch pair is presented. A formula for the minimum achievable phase noise in the 1/f2 region is derived. The 2.15 to 2.35GHz 0.3mum CMOS VCO has a phase noise of -143.9dBc/Hz at 3MHz offset and draws 4mA from a 2.5V supply","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"30 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":"126974009","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":"Active 2nd-order intermodulation calibration for direct-conversion receivers","authors":"Minghui Chen, Yue Wu, M. F. Chang","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696240","url":null,"abstract":"A temperature-compensated active IM2 calibration circuit for direct-conversion receivers is fabricated with a mixer in 0.25mum CMOS. A squaring circuit senses the RF signal and generates a calibration current to cancel mixer IM2 distortion. The loading effect and noise contribution are minimized by gain boosting. IIP2 is boosted >20dB to >80dBm in the IMT band. The calibration circuit draws 1.5mA","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"27 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":"116020358","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. Aull, J. Burns, Chenson Chen, B. Felton, Helen Hanson, C. Keast, J. Knecht, A. Loomis, M. Renzi, A. Soares, V. Suntharalingam, K. Warner, Deanna Wolfson, D. Yost, D. Young
{"title":"Laser Radar Imager Based on 3D Integration of Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes with Two SOI Timing Circuit Layers","authors":"B. Aull, J. Burns, Chenson Chen, B. Felton, Helen Hanson, C. Keast, J. Knecht, A. Loomis, M. Renzi, A. Soares, V. Suntharalingam, K. Warner, Deanna Wolfson, D. Yost, D. Young","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696163","url":null,"abstract":"A 64times64 laser-radar (ladar) detector array with 50mum pixel size measures the arrival times of single photons using Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (APD). A 3-tier structure with active devices on each tier is used with 227 transistors, six 3D vias and an APD in each pixel. A 9b pseudorandom counter in the pixel measures time. Initial imagery shows 2ns time quantization","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"15 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":"116232604","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}
E. B. Cohen, N. Rohrer, P. Sandon, M. Canada, C. Lichtenau, M. Ringler, P. Kartschoke, R. Floyd, Jan Heaslip, M. Ross, Th. Pflueger, R. Hilgendorf, P. McCormick, G. Salem, J. Connor, S. Geissler, D. Thygesen
{"title":"A 64B CPU Pair: Dual- and Single-Processor Chips","authors":"E. B. Cohen, N. Rohrer, P. Sandon, M. Canada, C. Lichtenau, M. Ringler, P. Kartschoke, R. Floyd, Jan Heaslip, M. Ross, Th. Pflueger, R. Hilgendorf, P. McCormick, G. Salem, J. Connor, S. Geissler, D. Thygesen","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696064","url":null,"abstract":"Two Powertrade-architecture 64b microprocessor chips are fabricated in 90nm dual strained-silicon SOI technology. The dual-processor chip has split clock domains and power planes, 1 MB L2 cache per core and a shared processor interconnect bus. The single-processor chip shares the dual's basic core and cache design","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"9 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":"122372678","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 10Gb/s CMOS AGC Amplifier with 35dB Dynamic Range for 10Gb Ethernet","authors":"Chih-Fan Liao, Shen-Iuan Liu","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696269","url":null,"abstract":"A 10Gb/s AGC amplifier is implemented in 0.18mum CMOS technology. The circuit uses a linear-in-dB controlled VGA with 58dB tuning range. For input swings from 18mV<sub>pp</sub> to 1V<sub>pp</sub>, the output swing is 430mV<sub>pp</sub> within +0.4 to -0.8dB variations. The measured dynamic range is 35dB with BER <10 <sup>-12</sup>. The AGC consumes 54mW from a 1.8V supply","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"376 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":"122656134","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}
N. Akahane, Rie Ryuzaki, S. Adachi, K. Mizobuchi, S. Sugawa
{"title":"A 200dB Dynamic Range Iris-less CMOS Image Sensor with Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor using Hybrid Voltage and Current Readout Operation","authors":"N. Akahane, Rie Ryuzaki, S. Adachi, K. Mizobuchi, S. Sugawa","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696161","url":null,"abstract":"A 2.6times2.6mm<sup>2</sup> image sensor fabricated in 0.35mum 2P3M CMOS contains 64times64 pixels with 20times20mum<sup>2</sup> pixel size and has an extended dynamic range of over 200dB. This DR is equivalent to the incident light ranging from about 10<sup>-2</sup> to 10<sup>8</sup> lx with the lens iris fixed","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"1 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":"129929273","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-chip image rejection in a low-if cmos receiver","authors":"Mohammad Hajirostam, K. Martin","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696239","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive image-reject mixer is realized in a 0.18mum CMOS technology. The circuit achieves high image-rejection ratios without off-chip filters in applications such as TV tuners. Test results show a 54dB image-rejection ratio in a low-IF receiver. The circuit consumes 75mW from a 1.8V supply and occupies 2.25mm2 including pads","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"1 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":"120955811","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}