Parisa Mahmoudidaryan, Debashis Mandal, B. Bakkaloglu, S. Kiaei
{"title":"27.5 A 91%-Efficiency Envelope-Tracking Modulator Using Hysteresis-Controlled Three-Level Switching Regulator and Slew-Rate-Enhanced Linear Amplifier for LTE-80MHz Applications","authors":"Parisa Mahmoudidaryan, Debashis Mandal, B. Bakkaloglu, S. Kiaei","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662305","url":null,"abstract":"Envelope tracking (ET) is widely used to improve the efficiency of linear power amplifiers (PAs) in applications such as LTE, LTE-Advanced inter- or intra-band carrier aggregation (CA), and for high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) with a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The hybrid ET modulator (ETM), where an efficient switching regulator (SWR) operates in parallel with a fast class-AB linear amplifier (LA), is one method to address the bandwidth (BW), power-efficiency and output ripple requirements.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131987813","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}
Arun Manickam, Kae-Dyi You, Nicholas Wood, Lei Pei, Yang Liu, Rituraj Singh, N. Gamini, D. Shahrjerdi, R. Kuimelis, A. Hassibi
{"title":"11.2 A CMOS Biosensor Array with 1024 3-Electrode Voltammetry Pixels and 93dB Dynamic Range","authors":"Arun Manickam, Kae-Dyi You, Nicholas Wood, Lei Pei, Yang Liu, Rituraj Singh, N. Gamini, D. Shahrjerdi, R. Kuimelis, A. Hassibi","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662507","url":null,"abstract":"Electro-analytical (E-chem) biosensors offer unique advantages over widely used optical biosensors and can be considered ideal for low-cost, mass-deployable point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic devices [1]. They possess fully electronic and real-time transduction methods and require little or no external instrumentation. Despite these advantages, two fundamental challenges have hampered broad adoption of E-chem biosensors: 1C design and transducer (surface) material suitability. E-chem sensors require both low-noise and high detection dynamic range (DDR) front-end circuits and must also accommodate electrode-electrolyte interfaces with significant PVT variations and temporal drifts [2]–[5]. The absence of CMOS-compatible bio-electronic interfaces with adequate chemical and thermal stability has been another impediment [6].","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115802342","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}
Hyunsu Park, Junyoung Song, Yeonho Lee, Jincheol Sim, Jonghyuck Choi, Chulwoo Kim
{"title":"23.3 A 3-bit/2UI 27Gb/s PAM-3 Single-Ended Transceiver Using One-Tap DFE for Next-Generation Memory Interface","authors":"Hyunsu Park, Junyoung Song, Yeonho Lee, Jincheol Sim, Jonghyuck Choi, Chulwoo Kim","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662462","url":null,"abstract":"Bandwidths of memory interfaces have been increased tremendously to enable high-data throughput while maintaining single-ended signaling and the supply voltage of I/O has been scaled down. Due to the increasing interface bandwidth the required area and power consumption has increased as well, resulting in higher I/O circuit design costs [3]. A high-loss channel causes ISI, which in turn limits the maximum data rate. Therefore, complex equalizers are needed for compensation, resulting in additional power dissipation and area overhead. As the data sampling rate increases, the deterministic and random noises degrade the data sampling margin and further limit the bandwidth. To lessen the negative impact of high channel loss and to reduce the forwarded clock frequency, multi-level signaling, such as PAM-4, can be used, as shown in Fig. 23.3.1 [2]. While the voltage sense margin for PAM-4 is theoretically $frac{1}{3}$ of NRZ, in practice it is smaller due to simultaneous switching noise (SSN), crosstalk, and random noise in single-ended signaling. Eventually, the reduced voltage sense margin degrades the SNR, which causes a reduction in the BER. On the other hand, PAM-3’s voltage sense margin is ${textstyle frac {1}{2}}$ of NRZ’s. Duo-binary signaling is commonly used for PAM-3 signaling [1]. However, the pin efficiency and the forwarded clock frequency for duo-binary signaling is the same as for NRZ. In this paper, a 3b/2UI PAM-3 single-ended memory interface is proposed, with a pin efficiency of 150% and a reduced clock frequency, compared to NRZ signaling. To address PAM-3 equalizer inefficiencies a tri-level decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is implemented in the receiver (RX).","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124588981","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":"1.1 Deep Learning Hardware: Past, Present, and Future","authors":"Yann LeCun","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662396","url":null,"abstract":"Historically, progress in neural networks and deep learning research has been greatly influenced by the available hardware and software tools. This paper identifies trends in deep learning research that will influence hardware architectures and software platforms of the future.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130655639","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":"22.4 A 27.8μW Biopotential Amplifier Tolerant to 30Vpp Common-Mode Interference for Two-Electrode ECG Recording in 0.18μm CMOS","authors":"Nahmil Koo, Seonghwan Cho","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662373","url":null,"abstract":"Two-electrode ECG devices have gained popularity in the recent past to enable comfortable and long-term monitoring of cardiovascular health. As a ground or bias electrode is not used in a two-electrode ECG device, common-mode interference (CMI) caused by powerline coupling to the human body can be as large as a few tens of volts. Such a large CMI ruins the ECG recording, and thus the analog front-end of the ECG device must be immune to large CMI.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115340230","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}
Jinseok Park, Seungchan Lee, Dong-Ho Lee, Songcheol Hong
{"title":"9.8 A 28GHz 20.3%-Transmitter-Efficiency 1.5°-Phase-Error Beamforming Front-End IC with Embedded Switches and Dual-Vector Variable-Gain Phase Shifters","authors":"Jinseok Park, Seungchan Lee, Dong-Ho Lee, Songcheol Hong","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662512","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter-wave beamforming front-end ICs have been studied intensively as the service of 5G wireless communication is scheduled to begin in the near future [1–4]. The ICs include circuit elements such as PAs, LNAs, phase shifters, variable gain blocks, and switches to support antenna arrays for RF/hybrid beamforming. Due to the large number of antennas required for beamforming, the beamforming IC should include as many circuit elements as possible in a chip. The IC also needs high phase- and gain-control resolutions not only for controlling the beams precisely but also for error corrections and calibrations [1]. However, higher-bit controls of the phase and gain as well as high transmitting power increase the chip size in conventional structures, posing a trade-off between them. The front-end IC structure proposed here increases both transmitting power and gain/phase resolutions without increasing either the chip size or the power consumption.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116437189","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":"6.7 A 112Gb/s PAM-4 Voltage-Mode Transmitter with 4-Tap Two-Step FFE and Automatic Phase Alignment Techniques in 40nm CMOS","authors":"Pen-Jui Peng, Yan-Ting Chen, Sheng-Tsung Lai, Chao-Hsuan Chen, Hsiang-En Huang, T. Shih","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662361","url":null,"abstract":"The continuous development of wireline communication encourages transmitters to operate at higher speeds. The applications of 400GbE also push the transmitter to be designed at 112Gb/s for a single lane [1–2]. However, the use of advanced processes $(lt16$ nm) hardly reduces the costs. This paper presents a 112Gb/s PAM-4 voltage-mode transmitter fabricated in 40nm CMOS by using the proposed two-step FFE and the automatic phase alignment techniques, improving the output bandwidth as well as the power dissipation. It delivers high-quality eye diagrams under 5.5dB loss at 28GHz with 3.89pJ/b efficiency.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116658653","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}
L. E. Aygun, Prakhar Kumar, Zhiwu Zheng, Ting-Sheng Chen, S. Wagner, J. Sturm, N. Verma
{"title":"17.3 Hybrid System for Efficient LAE-CMOS Interfacing in Large-Scale Tactile-Sensing Skins via TFT-Based Compressed Sensing","authors":"L. E. Aygun, Prakhar Kumar, Zhiwu Zheng, Ting-Sheng Chen, S. Wagner, J. Sturm, N. Verma","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662442","url":null,"abstract":"Tactile sensing has wide-ranging applications, from intelligent surfaces to advanced robotics. Large-Area Electronics (LAE), based on low-temp. fabrication $(lt 200 ^{circ}mathrm {C})$ of thin films, presents distinct capabilities, due to compatibility with a broad range of materials (enabling diverse transducers), as well as large and flexible substrates and materials-deposition methods (enabling expansive and formfitting sensing arrays). However, low performance/energy-efficiency of LAE thin-film transistors (TFTs) necessitates hybrid systems, integrating Si-CMOS ICs for system functions (sensor readout/control, processing, etc.). Initial work shows that a primary challenge in hybrid systems is the large number of interfaces required between LAE and CMOS, particularly as the number of sensors scales [1], [2]. This paper presents a force-sensing system that exploits signal sparsity exhibited in many large-area tactile-sensing applications (e.g., detecting point damage/stress in structures [3]), to reduce interfacing complexity to the level of sparsity, rather than a level related to the number of sensors (e.g., [1]). This is achieved via compressed sensing (CS), enabling sensor-acquisition by simple switches, readily implemented using TFTs. While CS has previously been leveraged in a hybrid-system architecture targeting signal sampling-rate requirements [2], this system applies it for high spatial resolution in tactile sensing.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125183732","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}
Seyed Danesh, W. Holland, J. Spalding, Michael Guidry, J. Hurwitz
{"title":"10.1 An Energy Measurement Front-End with Integrated In-Situ Background Full System Accuracy Monitoring Including the Current and Voltage Sensors","authors":"Seyed Danesh, W. Holland, J. Spalding, Michael Guidry, J. Hurwitz","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662542","url":null,"abstract":"Millions of utility electricity meters are deployed globally to determine billable energy consumption. These devices are factory calibrated, and then perform measurement without interruption over their lifetime. Once in the field their accuracy is unknown due to component aging and high voltage/current events [1]. Meters are periodically replaced as a preventive measure, leading to the unnecessary replacement of perfectly good meters while some inaccurate meters may remain in field. This paper presents an energy-measurement front-end that enables continuous background Condition Base Monitoring (CbM) over the lifetime of a meter. Crucially it monitors the performance of its voltage and current sensors, which are typically the largest sources of inaccuracy and drift. During normal operation, small test signals (“stimuli”), with adaptable but well-defined characteristics are injected into the sensors. Their amplitudes at the front-end’s output are then extracted to determine the gain accuracy of the full signal chain. In order to do this, the system must meet 3 main challenges. First, it must be able to generate and inject highly stable and accurate stimuli signals into the sensors. Second, it must have a wide dynamic range in order to accurately extract the stimuli in the presence of unknown and significantly larger load signals. Third, it must incorporate all the digital signal processing involved with stimuli signal selection, extraction and removal. This paper describes the circuit techniques used to address the first two challenges.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123457994","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. Pan, Cagri Gurleyuk, Matheus Pimenta, K. Makinwa
{"title":"10.3 A 0.12mm2 Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C","authors":"S. Pan, Cagri Gurleyuk, Matheus Pimenta, K. Makinwa","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2019.8662457","url":null,"abstract":"Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area $(gt 0.25$ mm2) and have lower operating temperatures $(le 125 ^{circ}mathrm {C})$ [2]–[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve $0.1 ^{circ}mathrm {C} (3 sigma)$ inaccuracy from $- 40 ^{circ}mathrm {C}$ to $180 ^{circ}mathrm {C}$. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies $6 times $ less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range.","PeriodicalId":265551,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114374676","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}