Kai-Kai Wu, Hong-Yi Wang, Chen Chen, Tao Tao, You-You Fan, Hao Zhang, Yu-Xin Liu
{"title":"Improved voltage transfer method for lithium battery string management chip","authors":"Kai-Kai Wu, Hong-Yi Wang, Chen Chen, Tao Tao, You-You Fan, Hao Zhang, Yu-Xin Liu","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12060","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to cut the costs and overcome the leakage current of batteries caused in traditional method, this study introduces an improved voltage transfer method for lithium battery string management chip. This proposed circuit based on the improved voltage transfer method is fabricated in 180-nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS is correct technology, and has been successfully applied to a three lithium batteries string management chip. These measurements indicate that this circuit transfers each cell’s voltage reliably and adopt protection against abnormal conditions. Furthermore, analysis of 50 samples shows that the improved method can greatly eliminate the battery leakage. The circuit reduces the leakage current to nanoampere scale and is integrated into the lithium battery string management chip, which is helpful for battery voltage balance and low cost.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116536089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memristor-transistor hybrid ternary content addressable memory using ternary memristive memory cell","authors":"Masoodur Rahman Khan, ABM Harun-ur Rashid","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12057","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A memristor-transistor hybrid ternary content addressable memory (MTCAM) with a memristor-based ternary memory cell is proposed. New emerging devices like memristors have recently been explored to overcome the limitations of CMOS-based memory circuits. The memristor is used as a binary memory cell in these MTCAM designs to replace a CMOS-based memory cell. This proposed design used a memristor as a ternary memory cell by exploiting its variable resistance characteristics. The associated wiring is reduced almost by a factor of 2 as a ternary cell is used instead of two binary cells. Area efficiency is further enhanced as the MTCAM cell is comprised of two transistors and two memristors (2T2M). A segmentation technique of match line along with a robust write/search operation method is presented to enhance the search speed of the proposed MTCAM. Simulation based on a mathematical model of memristor is presented and analysed using 65 nm TSMC MOS model parameters. Corner simulations and Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to substantiate the robustness of the design against process variation. Simulation results show the worst search delay of 0.75 ns and the energy/bit/search of 0.866 fJ for the 128 × 128 bit MTCAM.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115455421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Apoorva, Naveen Kumar, S. Intekhab Amin, Sunny Anand
{"title":"Design and investigation of negative capacitance–based core-shell dopingless nanotube tunnel field-effect transistor","authors":"Apoorva, Naveen Kumar, S. Intekhab Amin, Sunny Anand","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12064","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Investigation and analysis of a ferroelectric material–based dopingless nanotube tunnel field-effect transistor are conducted using a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) gate stack to induce negative capacitance in the device. Landau–Khalatnikov equations are used in deriving the parameter values of the ferroelectric material to ensure accurate results. The nanotube structure of the tunnel field-effect transistor allows for better electrostatic control owing to its gate-all-around structure. Incorporation of negative capacitance further reduces the voltage supply requirement and power consumption of the structure while simultaneously improving switching. In addition, the device is studied for varying thicknesses of the dielectric PZT material. The threshold voltage of the device under study was calculated as 0.281 V, and the average subthreshold slope of the device was reduced to 18.271 mV/decade, far below the thermionic limit of 60 mV/decade.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122608293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A digital phase-based on-fly offset compensation method for decision feedback equalisers","authors":"Andres Amaya, Javier Ardila, Elkim Roa","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12027","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A low-complexity method to reduce the offset voltage of dynamic comparators employed as samplers in decision feedback equalisers (DFE) is introduced. The authors propose the phase-domain offset reduction technique (PORT), which leverages an all-digital phase estimation of output data for offset compensation, without setting the comparator input to a common-mode voltage (<b><i>V</i></b><sub><b><i>CM</i></b></sub>). While traditional techniques might break the data link for offset adjustment, the proposed technique allows calibrating the comparator on-the-fly. Measurements from a 26-dB-loss on-chip emulated channel with chip-scope capability validates PORT through eye-diagrams at sampler input. A prototype was implemented in a TSMC 130 nm 1.2 V process, and experimental results show the possibility of extending PORT to state-of-the-art technology nodes for multi-gigabit operation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131558368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fault-tolerant quantum implementation of conventional decoder logic with enable input","authors":"Laxmidhar Biswal, Bappaditya Mondal, Hafizur Rahaman","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12036","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Decoherence is the greatest obstacle to the physical realization of scalable quantum computer, jeopardises coherent superposition of the qubit, and makes qubit extremely fragile. Quantum Error Correction Code (QECC), and Fault-tolerant quantum computation collectively could protect qubit and improve scalability. On the other hand, the conventional logic circuit is no more useful in quantum computing due to much difference from quantum logic. However, quantum computer has to perform classical tasks which can be addressed by translating to its equivalent quantum algorithm. Herein, zero-garbage-based reversible and fault-tolerant quantum circuit for 1 : 2, and 2 : 4 Decoder with enable signal using Clifford + <i>T</i>-group are proposed. Further, the design approach to implement <i>n</i> : 2<sup><i>n</i></sup> decoder on fault-tolerant quantum logic in linear <i>T</i> − <i>depth</i> is extended. Besides, performance parameters likely <i>T</i> − <i>count</i>, <i>T</i> − <i>depth</i>, and garbage output have been evaluated for <i>n</i> : 2<sup><i>n</i></sup> decoder.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134205965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 0.6 V 2.7 mW 94.3% locking range injection-locked frequency divider using modified varactor-less Colpitts oscillator topology","authors":"Zhen Li, Zhenrong Li, Xing Quan, Zeyuan Wang, Xinyu Li, Yiqi Zhuang","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12056","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study presents a 4.6–12.8 GHz injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) based on modified varactor-less Colpitts oscillator topology. A modified Colpitts ILFD is proposed to improve the LR and reduces power consumption, simultaneously. Meanwhile, the forward body bias technique is utilized to further decrease power consumption. Based on the 55 nm CMOS technology, a modified varactor-less Colpitts ILFD with a free-running frequency of 4.05 GHz is implemented. The proposed modified varactor-less Colpitts ILFD exhibits 94.3% LR from 4.6 to 12.8 GHz with an injection power of 0 dBm. It consumes 2.7 mW power from 0.6 V supply voltage and the core area is 0.38 mm<sup>2</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A low power and soft error resilience guard-gated Quartro-based flip-flop in 45 nm CMOS technology","authors":"Sabavat Satheesh Kumar, Kumaravel Sundaram, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, Frede Blaabjerg","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/cds2.12052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conventional flip-flops are more vulnerable to particle strikes in a radiation environment. To overcome this disadvantage, in the literature, many radiation-hardened flip-flops (FFs) based on techniques like triple modular redundancy, dual interlocked cell, Quatro and guard-gated Quatro cell, and so on, are discussed. The flip-flop realized using radiation hardened by design Quatro cell is named as the improved version of Quatro flip-flop (IVQFF). Single event upset (SEU) at inverter stages of master/slave and at output are the two drawbacks of IVQFF. This study proposes a guard-gated Quatro FF (GQFF) using guard-gated Quatro cell and Muller C-element. To overcome the SEU at inverter stages of IVQFF, in GQFF, the inverter stages are realized in a parallel fashion. A dual-input Muller C-element is connected to the GQFF output stage to mask the SEU and thus maintain the correct output. The proposed GQFF tolerates both single node upset (SNU) and double node upset (DNU). It also achieves low power. To prove the efficacy, GQFF and the existing FFs are implemented in 45 nm Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology. From the simulation results, it may be noted that the GQFF is 100% immune to SNUs and 50% immune to DNUs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92299664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual feedback IRC ring for chaotic waveform generation","authors":"Manoj Joshi, Ashish Ranjan","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12054","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The authors have proposed an inverter resistor capacitor (IRC)-based simple chaotic ring oscillator with dual feedback for the generation of the chaotic waveform. The proposed chaotic system uses three coupled autonomous first-order differential equations and it can be electrically demonstrated using the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) inverters with few passive RC elements for the generation of the high-frequency strange attractor. The basic dynamical characteristics and multistability property with complex bifurcation pattern in a wide range of parameters are well observed through theoretical as well as numerical simulation analysis using scaled inverse tangent function. In addition, a simple IRC chaotic model design is investigated using 0.18μm MOS transistor parameters with grounded capacitors and an equivalent CMOS-based scaled inverse tangent function. Moreover, the Cadence post layout simulation gives useful information about the circuit sustainability for IC design with high frequency (MHz), low power dissipation (940 μW) and small chip area (826.3 μm<sup>2</sup>).</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123529872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sudarsana Reddy Karnati, Lakshmi Bopanna, Dhanunjay R Jahagirdar
{"title":"Dynamically tuneable pre-modulation filter for an airborne PCM/FM telemetry system","authors":"Sudarsana Reddy Karnati, Lakshmi Bopanna, Dhanunjay R Jahagirdar","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12055","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the conventional airborne telemetry system, the pre-modulation filter with a multi-pole active Bessel filter is preferred to use in Pulse Code Modulator (PCM)/FM transmission. In the existing system, it is not possible to change the cut-off frequency for different data rates dynamically as required in the launch scenario of a long-range aerospace vehicle. In general, aerospace vehicle has multiple propellant stages to travel a desired trajectory path. Each stage gets separated from the vehicle at different instances. Each stage measurement plan is defined and correspondingly the PCM format is generated with an optimum data rate. Hence, the telemetry system is required to transmit variable data rates at various instances of a long-range aerospace vehicle from launch point to end point of a vehicle. This can be addressed by designing a dynamically tuneable pre-modulation (DTPM) filter. Here, a suitable DTPM filter scheme is proposed to mitigate variable data rate transmission in the telemetry system. The scheme is analysed as per IRIG-106 standard and simulated using MATLAB. The same has been modelled using VHDL and implemented targeting 28 nm technology Xilinx Zynq FPGA device.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127819248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shirshendu Roy, Debiprasad P. Acharya, Ajit K. Sahoo
{"title":"Fast OMP algorithm and its FPGA implementation for compressed sensing-based sparse signal acquisition systems","authors":"Shirshendu Roy, Debiprasad P. Acharya, Ajit K. Sahoo","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/cds2.12047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Compressed sensing-based radio frequency signal acquisition systems call for higher reconstruction speed and low dynamic power. In this study, a novel low power fast orthogonal matching pursuit (LPF-OMP) algorithm is proposed for faster reconstruction of sparse signals from their compressively sensed samples and the reconstruction circuit consumes very low dynamic power. The searching time to find the best column is reduced by reducing the number of columns to be searched in successive iterations. A novel architecture of the proposed LPF-OMP algorithm is also presented here. The proposed architecture is implemented on field programmable gate array for demonstrating the performance enhancement. Computation of pseudoinverse in OMP is avoided to save time and storage requirement to store the pseudoinverse matrix. The proposed design incorporates a novel strategy to stop the algorithm without consuming any extra circuitry. A case study is carried out to reconstruct the RADAR test pulses. The design is implemented for <i>K</i> = 256, <i>N</i> = 1024 using XILINX Virtex6 device and supports maximum of <i>K</i>/4 iterations. The proposed design is faster, hardware efficient and consumes very less dynamic power than the previous implementations of OMP. In addition, the proposed implementation proves to be efficient in reconstructing low sparse signals.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92337063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}