{"title":"Optimized Method for Thermal Tracking in 3D NoC Systems by Using ANN","authors":"Menghao Guo, Tong Cheng, Li Li, Yuxiang Fu","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614010","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we improve the thermal sensor allocation method based on the correlation between each node in the Network on Chip (NoC) system by tracking temperature under different scenarios. Moreover, an artificial neural network (ANN) is used to estimate the full-chip temperature distribution for the first time. Compared with the state of the art methods, our method can improve the average accuracy of the estimated results under different scenarios by 32.0% to 95.5%.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127723188","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}
D. Lee, Heecheol Hwang, Hyunteck Oh, Yongchan James Ban
{"title":"Mitigating IR-Drop with Design Technology Co-Optimization for Sub-Nanometer Node Technology","authors":"D. Lee, Heecheol Hwang, Hyunteck Oh, Yongchan James Ban","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614021","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we have proposed various approaches for reducing IR (Voltage)-drop with the best trade-off between the PPA (performance, power, area) and the IR tolerance for sub-nanometer node designs and technologies. The proposed approaches include the optimization of power distribute network (PDN), clock-cell placement, and cell placement in logic paths.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121444011","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}
Yutaro Komiyama, Shuya Matsuhashi, Wenqi Zhu, Kien Nguyen, H. Sekiya
{"title":"Load-Independent Inverse Class-E Oscillator with Armstrong-Oscillator Based Topology","authors":"Yutaro Komiyama, Shuya Matsuhashi, Wenqi Zhu, Kien Nguyen, H. Sekiya","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613877","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the load-independent inverse class-E oscillator with Armstrong-oscillator based topology. The proposed oscillator achieves constant output voltage and soft switching against load variations due to the load-independent design. Moreover, the proposed circuit realizes the self-tuning function using the Armstrong-oscillator topology. As a result, the oscillator can also have robustness against the variations in the resonant frequency. The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed oscillator.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122590456","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}
Woo-Hyoung Choi, Seung-Myeong Yu, Yunha Kang, Junyoung Song
{"title":"Digital LDO with reference-less adaptive CLK generation and bit-shifting Coarse–Fine-control","authors":"Woo-Hyoung Choi, Seung-Myeong Yu, Yunha Kang, Junyoung Song","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9614003","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional digital low dropout regulator (DLDO) operating speed is invariable due to constant external reference clock. Fixed DLDO operating speed, regardless of the load state, cause inefficient power consumption for steady-state load or stability problem due to slow transient response time. This paper introduces DLDO with reference-less adaptive clock generation which is optimized by load states. Coarse-fine control and burst-mode are added to the shift register adjusting power transistors (PT) to achieve a fast transient response. The proposed DLDO is designed in 180nm BCDMOS and operates at 1.8V with an output voltage of 1.5V. The maximum and minimum operating frequency is 393MHz, 165MHz respectively. Settling time is 174ns at load current changes from 2mA to 10mA.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126288271","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}
Youngkwang Lee, Donghyun Han, Sooryeong Lee, Sungho Kang
{"title":"A Circular-based TSV Repair Architecture","authors":"Youngkwang Lee, Donghyun Han, Sooryeong Lee, Sungho Kang","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613904","url":null,"abstract":"The previous TSV repair architectures can efficiently repair the TSV with only a few redundant-TSVs (RTSVs), but it requires a long repair path analysis time and a large repair path analyzer to get a high repair rate. This paper proposes a novel TSV repair architecture that can quickly analyze the repair path while ensuring a high repair rate. Experimental results show that the worst repair path analysis time of the proposed architecture with N signal-TSVs (STSVs) does not exceed 2N clock cycle. It also shows that the repair rate of the proposed architecture is not low compared to the previous architectures.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"111 49","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113944689","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":"Efficient Partial Sum Architecture and Memory Reduction Method for SC-Flip Polar Decoder","authors":"J. Roh, Useok Lee, Yongje Lee, M. Sunwoo","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613860","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the error correction performance of successive cancellation (SC) decoding of polar codes, SC-flip (SCF) decoding was proposed. However, it requires large additional memory to save the decoding history for hardware implementation. This paper proposes a partial sum (PS) memory reduction method and a PS architecture for SCF decoders. We analyze the fractal structure of the generator matrix and propose a logic circuit to decide the corresponding row of the generator matrix for an arbitrary bit-index. The proposed design was implemented on the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, which can reduce the number of flip-flops by up to 47% and the PS history memory size by 94% compared to other PS architectures.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123859106","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}
Junghoon Jin, Seungjun Kim, Sunguk Choi, Pil-Ho Lee, S. Rhee, Ki-hwan Choi, Jongsun Kim
{"title":"A 7.68 GHz Fast-Lock Low-Jitter Digital MDLL","authors":"Junghoon Jin, Seungjun Kim, Sunguk Choi, Pil-Ho Lee, S. Rhee, Ki-hwan Choi, Jongsun Kim","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613940","url":null,"abstract":"A 7.68 GHz fast-lock digital multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL) is presented. Implemented in a 40-nm 1.2-V CMOS process, the proposed MDLL achieves an output frequency of 7.68 GH with a high frequency multiplication factor N = 64. By adopting a cyclic Vernier TDC, the proposed MDLL achieves a fast lock time of 6 reference cycles. To reduce jitter integration caused by power supply noise, a differential pair based digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is adopted. Also, to reduce deterministic jitter, a DSM-based dithering jitter reduction scheme has been adopted. The proposed MDLL achieves a simulated p-p jitter of about 16 ps at 7.68 GHz. It occupies an active area of 0.026 mm2, and dissipates 29 mW at 7.68 GHz.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124206344","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}
T. Tan, Phap Duong-Ngoc, Thang Xuan Pham, Hanho Lee
{"title":"Novel Performance Evaluation Approach of AMBA AXI-Based SoC Design","authors":"T. Tan, Phap Duong-Ngoc, Thang Xuan Pham, Hanho Lee","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613920","url":null,"abstract":"The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) presented by Arm is a bus oriented interface for on-chip communication. In addition to verifying bus functionalities, performance evaluation is an important process should be carefully considered to ensure the operation of a design. This paper introduces a novel method to measure the performance of an AMBA-based SoC design. By employing an SoC design using SystemVerilog and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) on a license-free EDA Playground platform, transactions are transmitted successfully between managers and subordinates in the system. Moreover, the bandwidth and latency of the design are successfully measured using the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127882558","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}
Changseon Chae, Subin Kim, Jong-Moon Choi, Jun-Eun Park
{"title":"A Multi-Bit In-Memory-Computing SRAM Macro Using Column-Wise Charge Redistribution for DNN Inference in Edge Computing Devices","authors":"Changseon Chae, Subin Kim, Jong-Moon Choi, Jun-Eun Park","doi":"10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613934","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a charge-redistribution inmemory-computing (IMC) macro that realizes multi-bit multiply-and-accumulation (MAC) operation based on 5T static random-access memory (SRAM). The charge-domain MAC operation based on capacitor array allows the IMC-SRAM macro to achieve high linearity and improved energy efficiency. Also, an optimized 5T SRAM structure saves area consumption, increasing bit density of the macro. The proposed IMC-SRAM 64 × 64 macro was designed using 28nm CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":185992,"journal":{"name":"2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121200204","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}