{"title":"A 10-bit 20MHz 38mW 950MHz CT ΣΔ ADC with a 5-bit noise-shaping VCO-based quantizer and DEM circuit in 0.13u cmos","authors":"M. Straayer, M. Perrott","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342737","url":null,"abstract":"A combined 5-bit, 1st order noise-shaped quantizer and DEM circuit running at 950MHz based on a multi-phase VCO is presented. This quantizer structure is the key element in a 3rd order noise shaped ADC with 2nd order loop dynamics and a single opamp. Measured performance is 60dB SNR at 20MHz bandwidth in 0.13u CMOS while consuming 32mA from a 1.2V supply.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126379469","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 Zeroing Cell-to-Cell Interference Page Architecture with Temporary LSB Storing Program Scheme for Sub-40nm MLC NAND Flash Memories and beyond","authors":"Ki-Tae Park","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342709","url":null,"abstract":"A new page architecture with temporary LSB storing program scheme is presented as a breakthrough solution for sub-40nm FG (floating-gate) MLC NAND flash memories and beyond. Without program speed degradation, the proposed method is able to eliminate 100% BL cell-to-cell and almost 50% WL cell-to-cell coupling interferences which are well known as a most critical scaling barrier for FG NAND flash memories.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124068476","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. Matsumoto, S. Sakiyama, Y. Tokunaga, T. Morie, S. Dosho
{"title":"Multiphase-Output Level Shift System used in Multiphase PLL for Low Power Application","authors":"A. Matsumoto, S. Sakiyama, Y. Tokunaga, T. Morie, S. Dosho","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342729","url":null,"abstract":"Low power design is essential for mobile application. For a PLL with multiphase outputs, level shifter (LS), which converts oscillator-output-level to that of power supply, consumes much power; hence, we have devised a new architecture called a multiphase-output level shift system (M-LSs) which has only three transistors in each LS and cuts off short current perfectly. Moreover, we have connected between the adjacent phases of M-LSs with a resistor to improve phase accuracy. The two key techniques mentioned above make power consumption 1/15 of the conventional LS. The PLL consumes about 1 mA at 123 MHz and accomplishes 63-phase accuracy of 0.5LSB.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126763184","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}
Ehung Chen, Jihong Ren, J. Zerbe, B. Leibowitz, Haechang Lee, V. Stojanović, C. Yang
{"title":"BER-based Adaptation of I/O Link Equalizers","authors":"Ehung Chen, Jihong Ren, J. Zerbe, B. Leibowitz, Haechang Lee, V. Stojanović, C. Yang","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342756","url":null,"abstract":"Many equalization techniques have been demonstrated for multi-Gb/s I/O transceivers in order to compensate for the limited bandwidth of the communication medium. Since the performance of links is typically defined by the bit-error-rate (BER), this paper proposes a new adaptation method using the BER as the objective function to maximize the receiver voltage margin. Measurement results compare the new algorithm with commonly used sign-sign least mean square (SS-LMS) adaptation. The results show significant improvement when applied to a transmitter FIR equalizer with peak power constraint, and modest improvement when used in a receiver DFE.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132771695","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 0.016mm2, 2.4GHz RF signal quality measurement macro for RF test and diagnosis","authors":"K. Nose, M. Mizuno","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342723","url":null,"abstract":"Our RF signal-quality measurement macro employs 1) the new window-shifting measurement technique, which can obtain power of high-frequency component with lower-frequency measurements, and 2) the new stair-like weighted addition technique, which can decrease the error due to harmonic power of measured signals. The macro was only 1/10 area of conventional spectrum analyzers. Carrier power of 2.4 GHz-Tx with the measurement error of <1dB was measured without RF-testers, and harmonic-emission exceeding FCC regulations (>-20dBm) were successfully detected.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132793620","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}
Leland Chang, Yutaka Nakamura, R. Montoye, J. Sawada, Andrew K. Martin, Kiyofumi Kinoshita, Fadi H. Gebara, Kanak B. Agarwal, D. Acharyya, Wilfried Haensch, Kohji Hosokawa, D. Jamsek
{"title":"A 5.3GHz 8T-SRAM with Operation Down to 0.41V in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Leland Chang, Yutaka Nakamura, R. Montoye, J. Sawada, Andrew K. Martin, Kiyofumi Kinoshita, Fadi H. Gebara, Kanak B. Agarwal, D. Acharyya, Wilfried Haensch, Kohji Hosokawa, D. Jamsek","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342739","url":null,"abstract":"A 32 kb subarray demonstrates practical implementation of a 65 nm node 8T-SRAM cell for variability tolerance in highspeed caches. Ideal cell stability allows single-supply operation down to 0.41 V at 295 MHz without dynamic voltage techniques. Despite a larger cell, array area is competitive with 6T-SRAM due to higher array efficiency. With an LSDL decoder, a gated diode sense amplifier, and design tradeoffs enabled by the 8 T cell, 5.3 GHz operation at 1.2 V is achieved.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131328074","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":"1 Gbit/s bidirectional full-wire rate communication LSI for residential gateways","authors":"Yukikuni Nishidat, Kenji Kawait, Keiichi Koiket, Katsuichi Oyamat, Tetsuo Hayashi, Hiroyuki Nouchi","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342689","url":null,"abstract":"A communication LSI for residential gateways has been developed. The LSI has an inline-IPsec circuit, which achieves 1 Gbit/s performance for both encryption and decryption, a small-scale high-speed look-up circuit in which only comparators are made parallel, and a hierarchical and reconfigurable QoS circuit. A 2 Gbit/s full wire rate throughput was achieved at a power consumption of 2 W.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133953691","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}
Sungjoon Kim, Dongyun Lee, Young-Soo Park, Yongsam Moon, Daeyun Shim
{"title":"A Dual PFD Phase Rotating Multi-Phase PLL for 5Gbps PCI Express Gen2 Multi-Lane Serial Link Receiver in 0.13um CMOS","authors":"Sungjoon Kim, Dongyun Lee, Young-Soo Park, Yongsam Moon, Daeyun Shim","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342732","url":null,"abstract":"A dual phase frequency detector phase-locked loop (PLL) architecture for multi-lane 5 Gbps serial link receiver is demonstrated using 0.13 mum CMOS. The PLL's 8 multiphase clocks can be rotated altogether digitally with respect to a single fixed phase clock from a main PLL. The phase step resolution is 1/15 of a unit bit interval and the rotation is achieved by adding only one additional phase-frequency detector (PFD) and a charge pump. The rms jitter is 1.2 ps for 5 Gbps serial link operation. The new PLL occupies 0.015 mm2 and consumes 3 mA from a 1.2 V supply. The small area and low power nature of the architecture is suitable for receivers in multi-lane serial links.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125192272","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. Hanson, Bo Zhai, Mingoo Seok, Brian Cline, Kevin Zhou, Meghna Singhal, M. Minuth, Javin Olson, Leyla Nazhandali, Todd Austin, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw
{"title":"Performance and Variability Optimization Strategies in a Sub-200mV, 3.5pJ/inst, 11nW Subthreshold Processor","authors":"S. Hanson, Bo Zhai, Mingoo Seok, Brian Cline, Kevin Zhou, Meghna Singhal, M. Minuth, Javin Olson, Leyla Nazhandali, Todd Austin, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342694","url":null,"abstract":"A robust, energy efficient subthreshold (sub-V<sub>th</sub>) processor has been designed and tested in a 0.13 mum technology. The processor consumes 11 nW at V<sub>dd</sub> = 160 mV and 3.5 pJ/inst at V<sub>dd</sub> = 350 mV. Variability and performance optimization techniques are investigated for sub-V<sub>th</sub> circuits.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122393247","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}
M. Ito, T. Todaka, T. Tsunoda, H. Tanaka, T. Kodama, H. Shikano, M. Onouchi, K. Uchiyama, T. Odaka, T. Kamei, E. Nagahama, M. Kusaoke, Y. Nitta, Y. Wada, K. Kimura, H. Kasahara
{"title":"Heterogeneous Multiprocessor on a Chip Which Enables 54x AAC-LC Stereo Encoding","authors":"M. Ito, T. Todaka, T. Tsunoda, H. Tanaka, T. Kodama, H. Shikano, M. Onouchi, K. Uchiyama, T. Odaka, T. Kamei, E. Nagahama, M. Kusaoke, Y. Nitta, Y. Wada, K. Kimura, H. Kasahara","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2007.4342719","url":null,"abstract":"A heterogeneous multiprocessor on a chip has been designed and implemented. It consists of 2 CPUs and 2 DRPs (Dynamic Reconfigurable Processors). The design of DRP was intended to achieve high-performance in a small area to be integrated on a SoC for embedded systems. Memory architecture of CPUs and DRPs were unified to improve programming and compiling efficiency. 54times AAC-LC stereo encoding has been enabled with 2 DRPs at 300 MHz and 2 CPUs at 600 MHz.","PeriodicalId":261092,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127101160","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}