{"title":"Strained Si and the future direction of CMOS","authors":"S. Thompson","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.99","url":null,"abstract":"Uniaxial process induced strain is being adopted in all 90, 65, and 45 nm high performance logic technologies. Uniaxial strain offers large performance improvement at low cost and minimally increased manufacturing complexity and is scalable to future technology nodes.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122860583","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 structure based clustering algorithm with applications to VLSI physical design","authors":"Jianhua Li, L. Behjat, B. Schiffner","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.29","url":null,"abstract":"Clustering plays an important role in VLSI physical design. In this paper, we present a new structure and connectivity based clustering algorithm. The proposed clustering algorithm emphasizes capturing natural circuit clusters, i.e., highly interconnected cell groups. We apply the proposed clustering algorithm to 2-way and k-way partitionings on ISPD98 benchmark suite as stated in C. J. Alpert (1998), and 2-way partitioning to part of ISPD2005 benchmark suite based in G.-J. Nam et al. (2005). The experimental results show that the proposed clustering algorithm can maintain the partitioning solution qualities while reducing the sizes of large scale circuits.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117301625","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":"Power saving of a dynamic width controller for a monolithic current-mode CMOS DC-DC converter","authors":"Hung-Ch Lee, Kuo-Tai Chang, Ke-Horng Chen, Wen Tsao Chen","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.93","url":null,"abstract":"We propose the dynamic power MOS width controlling technique and the adaptive gate driver voltage technique to find out the better approach to power saving in DC-DC converters. It demonstrates that the dynamic power MOS width controlling technique has much improvement in power consumption than that of the adaptive gate driver voltage technique when the load current is heavy or light. After the dynamic power MOS width modification, the simulation results show that the efficiency of current-mode DC-DC buck converter can be improved from 92% to about 98% in heavy load and from 15% to about 16.3% in light load. However, the adaptive gate driver voltage technique has only little improvement of power saving. It means that the dynamic width controller is the better approach to power saving in the DC-DC converter.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131745231","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":"Noise analysis of a CMOS active pixel sensor for tomographic mammography","authors":"M. Izadi, K. Karim","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.86","url":null,"abstract":"Crystalline silicon (c-Si) technology is attractive for advanced large area imaging applications because of higher transistor mobility, smaller feature sizes and higher density of integration. In particular, for advanced mammography modalities such as tomosynthesis, c-Si is ideally suited to develop the high performance circuitry required for higher contrast, lower noise, and lower X-ray dose, while providing high resolution pixels. We present a voltage-mediated active pixel sensor (APS) with a focus on large area, diagnostic medical X-ray tomographic mammography. System level noise calculations indicate that CMOS technology can meet the stringent noise and area requirements required for tomographic mammography.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129242221","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":"Evolution of bootstrap techniques in low-voltage CMOS digital VLSI circuits for SOC applications","authors":"J. Kuo","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.59","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the evolution of the bootstrap techniques in low-voltage CMOS digital VLSI circuits in the past. Combining bootstrap and DTMOS techniques, low-voltage CMOS digital VLSI circuits using a very low power supply voltage such as 0.5V have been developed for low-power SOC applications.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131605813","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":"Life-inspired systems: assuring quality in the era of complexity","authors":"L. Józwiak","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.79","url":null,"abstract":"The recent spectacular progress in modern microelectronics that enabled implementation of a complete complex system on a single chip created new important opportunities, but also new serious difficulties. This paper aims at a brief analysis of the situation, trends and problems in the field of the modern microelectronic-based systems, and discussion of the paradigms of life-inspired systems and quality-driven design that seem to be adequate to overcome the difficulties.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"123 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124648664","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}
K. Gan, Dong-Shong Liang, Chung-Chih Hsiao, Shih-Yu Wang, Feng-Chang Chiang, Cher-Shiung Tsai, Y. Chen, Shun-Huo Kuo, Chi-Pin Chen
{"title":"Logic circuit design based on MOS-NDR devices and circuits fabricated by CMOS process","authors":"K. Gan, Dong-Shong Liang, Chung-Chih Hsiao, Shih-Yu Wang, Feng-Chang Chiang, Cher-Shiung Tsai, Y. Chen, Shun-Huo Kuo, Chi-Pin Chen","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.80","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new MOS-NDR device that is composed of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect- transistor (MOS) devices. This device could exhibit the negative differential resistance (NDR) characteristics in the current-voltage characteristics by suitably modulating the MOS parameters. We design a logic circuit which can operate the inverter, NOR, and NAND gates. The devices and circuits are fabricated by the standard 0.35/spl mu/m CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121851442","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":"Low power Bluetooth for headset applications","authors":"C. Cojocaru","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.82","url":null,"abstract":"Bluetooth headsets demand high radio performance at extreme low power consumption. A Bluetooth (BT) transceiver implemented in a 0.5 /spl mu/m BiCMOS process is supplied at 1.8 V and consumes less than 24mA when receiving and less than 18mA when transmitting. The receiver has -91dBm sensitivity and best-in-class blocker performance. Architecture, circuits and radio performance are reviewed. A Bluetooth headset based on this transceiver consumes 12mA in a 64kb/s HV3 voice link, has 10h talk time and weighs only 14g.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116082900","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":"An FPGA based accelerator for SAT based combinational equivalence checking","authors":"M. Safar, M. El-Kharashi, A. Salem","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.40","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present software/reconfigurable hardware SAT accelerator for combinational equivalence checking. The SAT binary clauses are mapped into an implication graph and the ternary clauses are kept in an indexed clause database and mapped into the clause evaluator and conflict detector implemented on FPGA. The validity of the proposed approach is shown through the ISCAS'85 benchmark circuits.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115366289","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. Voinigescu, M. Gordon, Chihou Lee, T. Yao, A. Mangan, K. Yau
{"title":"System-on-chip design beyond 50 GHz","authors":"S. Voinigescu, M. Gordon, Chihou Lee, T. Yao, A. Mangan, K. Yau","doi":"10.1109/IWSOC.2005.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.103","url":null,"abstract":"Candidate topologies and design methodologies for millimeter-wave IC building blocks such as LNAs, mixers, VCOs, and power amplifiers are discussed and recent experimental results obtained in SiGe BiCMOS and 90-nm RF CMOS technologies using inductors and transformers above 50 GHz are presented.","PeriodicalId":328550,"journal":{"name":"Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127178997","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}