S. Jeng, S. M. Chen, F. Hsu, P. Lin, J. H. Wang, T. Fang, P. Kavle, Y. J. Lin
{"title":"High density 3D fanout package for heterogeneous integration","authors":"S. Jeng, S. M. Chen, F. Hsu, P. Lin, J. H. Wang, T. Fang, P. Kavle, Y. J. Lin","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008576","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional (3D) fanout package stacking offers new levels of performance, high-density integration, and form factor advantages. Known-good fanout packages are stacked, and the vertical connection is built through Cu pillars in the molding area and solder bumps. Compared to existing TSV-based 3D integrated circuits (3DIC) technology, this solution reduces thermal crosstalk when integrating devices of different die sizes. Fanout package stacking potentially provides a cost-effective platform for highly flexible heterogeneous integration of digital, memory, analog, radio-frequency (RF) and optical devices.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125343426","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 CMOS temperature sensor with a 49fJK2 resolution FoM","authors":"S. Pan, Hui Jiang, K. Makinwa","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008557","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the most energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor ever reported, with a resolution FoM of 49fJ K2, 2.7× better than the state-of-the-art. It consists of a Wheatstone bridge made from poly-silicon resistors, which is readout by a 2nd-order Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma modulator (CTDSM). This approach leads to a high resolution (160μΚ in 10ms) and a low supply-voltage sensitivity (< 20mK/V at room temperature).","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121803702","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":"Computational locking: Accelerating lock-times in all-digital PLLs","authors":"Fahim ur Rahman, G. Taylor, V. Sathe","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008475","url":null,"abstract":"We propose computational-lock, a technique for accelerating frequency and phase-acquisition in all-digital PLLs during cold-start and re-lock. A wide-dynamic range, high resolution TDC is also proposed to further support the technique. Resulting lock-time improvements are evaluated through 50,000 repeated measurements of 65nm CMOS test-chips. Mean lock-times of 16Trefcik and 12Trefcik for cold-start and relock respectively are observed. Computational-lock does not impact steady-state PLL power and performance.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115005559","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}
Hyunsoo Ha, M. Konijnenburg, Budi Lukita, Roland van Wegberg, Jiawei Xu, R. van den Hoven, Marijn Lemmens, R. Thoelen, C. van Hoof, N. van Helleputte
{"title":"A bio-impedance readout IC with frequency sweeping from 1k-to-1MHz for electrical impedance tomography","authors":"Hyunsoo Ha, M. Konijnenburg, Budi Lukita, Roland van Wegberg, Jiawei Xu, R. van den Hoven, Marijn Lemmens, R. Thoelen, C. van Hoof, N. van Helleputte","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008471","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a bio-impedance (BIOZ) readout IC for electrical impedance tomography (EIT). The IC includes a complete readout channel for impedance characterization at various frequencies ranging from 1k-to-1MHz, an input multiplexer and a programmable digital controller enabling multi-frequency impedance scanning from multiple locations. To relax the bandwidth requirements of the readout channel, pre-demodulation before the IA is employed. A fast channel settling mechanism (<1ms) allows quick switching between frequencies enabling a fast imaging speed. Dynamic element matching (DEM) in the current generation and chopping in the readout front-end are adopted to mitigate 1/f noise resulting in a noise floor of 38.4mQRMS. This IC, fabricated in 0.18μm, consumes 18.7 μW and 63 μW in the readout front-end and the current generator (CG), respectively. By means of in-vitro and in-vivo testing its effectivity for EIT is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134403719","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 0.028mm2 19.8fJ/step 2nd-order VCO-based CT ΔΣ modulator using an inherent passive integrator and capacitive feedback in 40nm CMOS","authors":"Shaolan Li, Nan Sun","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008538","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an OTA-less 2<sup>nd</sup>-order VCO-based CT ΔΣ modulator featuring a passive integrator that makes use of the VCO's inherent parasitic effect. A low-power capacitive feedback technique is also presented for robust loop compensation. Fabricated in 40nm CMOS, the prototype occupies 0.028mm<sup>2</sup> of active area and consumes 524μW when sampling at 330MHz. The ΔΣM achieved peak Walden FoM of 19.8fJ/step with 68.6dB SNDR over 6MHz BW.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114341999","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}
Ji-Hoon Lee, Kwangmin Kim, Minsoo Choi, J. Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim
{"title":"A 16.6-pJ/b 150-Mb/s body channel communication transceiver with decision feedback equalization improving >200% area efficiency","authors":"Ji-Hoon Lee, Kwangmin Kim, Minsoo Choi, J. Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008549","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the fastest and most energy efficient body channel communication transceiver integrated into the smallest chip area. To enhance data rate with limited human body channel bandwidth, decision feedback equalization technique is adopted to body channel communication for the first time. The transceiver, fabricated in 65 nm CMOS technology, reliably (BER < 10−6) achieves the maximum data rates of 150 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s over 20-cm and 1.0 m human body channels at costs of 16.6 pJ/b and 23.5 pJ/b. Even with the drastic performance improvements, the transceiver only occupies an area of 5580 μm2, which is of less than 1% compared to any previously presented works. This remarkable area efficiency verifies the superiority of the proposed design's simplicity of and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114585673","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 9.1 mW inductive displacement-to-digital converter with 1.85 nm resolution","authors":"V. Chaturvedi, J. Vogel, K. Makinwa, S. Nihtianov","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008556","url":null,"abstract":"A displacement-to-digital converter (DDC) based on inductive (eddy-current) sensor is presented. The sensor is embedded in a self-oscillating front-end, whose 145MHz output is then digitized by a ratiometric ΔΣ ADC. Over a 10μm range, the DDC achieves 1.85nm resolution (1.02 pH), in a 2kHz bandwidth. It draws 9.1mW from a 1.8 V supply making it the most energy-efficient ECS interface ever reported.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129409303","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 0.06mm2 ± 50mV range −82dB THD chopper VCO-based sensor readout circuit in 40nm CMOS","authors":"Chih-Chan Tu, Yu-Kai Wang, Tsung-Hsien Lin","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008558","url":null,"abstract":"A VCO-based sensor readout circuit is presented. It comprises a VCO-based integrator with counters, and a capactively-coupled feedback DAC, to form a 1st-order DSM with high input impedance and wide dynamic range for voltage sensors. Chopping is applied to suppress the flicker noise. The time-domain approach relaxes the voltage swing requirement compared to that of a Gm-C integrator, and thus area efficiency is achieved. The prototype is implemented in 40nm CMOS. It consumes 21μA under 1.2V supply. With a 100mVpp sinusoidal input, it achieves 74.9dB SNDR over 2 kHz BW and the THD is −82dB. This readout circuit is also measured with a Hall sensor to demonstrate its operation. The FoM and distortion achieves the state-of-the-art performance of VCO-based sensor readout circuits.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124187381","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. Yousefzadeh, Wei Wu, B. Buter, K. Makinwa, Michiel Pertijs
{"title":"A compact sensor readout circuit with combined temperature, capacitance and voltage sensing functionality","authors":"B. Yousefzadeh, Wei Wu, B. Buter, K. Makinwa, Michiel Pertijs","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008555","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an area- and energy-efficient sensor readout circuit, which can precisely digitize temperature, capacitance and voltage. The three modes use only on-chip references and employ a shared zoom ADC based on SAR and ΔΣ conversion to save die area. Measurements on 24 samples from a single wafer show a temperature inaccuracy of ±0.2 °C (3σ) over the military temperature range (−55°C to 125°C). The voltage sensing shows an inaccuracy of ±0.5%. The sensor also offers 18.7-ENOB capacitance-to-digital conversion, which handles up to 3.8 pF capacitance with a 0.76 pJ/conv.-step energy-efficiency FoM. It occupies 0.33 mm in a 0.16 μm CMOS process and draws 4.6 μA current from a 1.8 V supply.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127137782","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}
Hyun-Gi Seok, Oh-Yong Jung, Anjana Dissanayake, Sang-Gug Lee
{"title":"A 2.4GHz, −102dBm-sensitivity, 25kb/s, 0.466mW interference resistant BFSK multi-channel sliding-IF ULP receiver","authors":"Hyun-Gi Seok, Oh-Yong Jung, Anjana Dissanayake, Sang-Gug Lee","doi":"10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIC.2017.8008552","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultra-low power, high-sensitivity, and interference-resistant receiver suitable for IoT applications. By the combination of sliding-IF based low-power down-conversion and relative-power-detection based FSK demodulation, the proposed receiver achieves multi-channel operation and minimizes power consumption. Cascaded N-path filter and 4th-order hybrid-PPF are adopted to improve the sensitivity and carrier-to-interference ratio. Implemented in a 65nm CMOS, the receiver achieves −102dBm sensitivity at 0.1% BER and 25kb/s data rate while consuming 466μW from a 0.6V supply.","PeriodicalId":176340,"journal":{"name":"2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127775872","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}