M. Floyd, A. Drake, R. Berry, H. Chase, Richard L. Willaman, Jarom Pena
{"title":"Voltage droop reduction using throttling controlled by timing margin feedback","authors":"M. Floyd, A. Drake, R. Berry, H. Chase, Richard L. Willaman, Jarom Pena","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243807","url":null,"abstract":"An active processor throttling control loop using critical path timing measurements is enabled in the shipping POWER7™ based P775 supercomputer to prevent voltage droop induced failures. As a result, worst-case workload-induced voltage droop events are reduced by more than 50% compared to the system operating without the control loop. The reduction in operating voltage afforded by this technique translates to significant yield improvement, reduced failure rates, and improved power efficiency.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"96-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75533644","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 sub-1V 3.9µW bandgap reference with a 3σ inaccuracy of ±0.34% from −50°C to +150°C using piecewise-linear-current curvature compensation","authors":"S. Sano, Yasuhiko Takahashi, M. Horiguchi, M. Ota","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243770","url":null,"abstract":"A sub-1V 3.9μW bandgap reference (BGR) with small voltage variation of ±0.34% and low temperature drift (1mV) over a wide temperature range (-50°C ~ +150°C) and a wide voltage range (+0.9 V ~ +5.5V) by using a low power current mode BGR core and a piecewise-linear curvature compensation system. The BGR occupies 0.1mm<sup>2</sup> in 0.13μm CMOS technology with triple well structure.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"22-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85542030","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 25-Gb/s 5-mWCMOS CDR/deserializer","authors":"Jun Won Jung, B. Razavi","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243828","url":null,"abstract":"A half-rate clock and data recovery circuit and a deserializer employ charge-steering logic to reduce the power consumption. Realized in 65-nm technology, the overall circuit draws 5 mW from a 1-V supply, producing a clock with an rms jitter of 1.5 ps and a jitter tolerance of 0.5 UIpp at 5 MHz.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"138-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75644240","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}
Yingzhe Hu, W. Rieutort-Louis, J. Sanz-Robinson, K. Song, J. Sturm, S. Wagner, N. Verma
{"title":"High-resolution sensing sheet for structural-health monitoring via scalable interfacing of flexible electronics with high-performance ICs","authors":"Yingzhe Hu, W. Rieutort-Louis, J. Sanz-Robinson, K. Song, J. Sturm, S. Wagner, N. Verma","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243819","url":null,"abstract":"Early-stage damage detection for buildings and bridges requires continuously sensing and assessing strain over large surfaces, yet with centimeter-scale resolution. To achieve this, we present a sensing sheet that combines high-performance ICs with flexible electronics, allowing bonding to such surfaces. The flexible electronics integrates thin-film strain gauges and amorphous-silicon control circuits, patterned on a polyimide sheet that can potentially span large areas. Non-contact links couple digital and analog signals to the ICs, allowing many ICs to be introduced via low-cost sheet lamination for energy-efficient readout and computation over a large number of sensors. Communication between distributed ICs is achieved by transceivers that exploit low-loss interconnects patterned on the polyimide sheet; the transceivers self-calibrate to the interconnect impedance to maximize transmit SNR. The system achieves multi-channel strain readout with sensitivity of 18μStrainRMS at an energy per measurement of 270nJ, while the communication energy is 12.8pJ/3.3pJ per bit (Tx/Rx) over 7.5m.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76276232","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}
Xin Zhang, Po-Hung Chen, Y. Ryu, K. Ishida, Yasuyuki Okuma, Kazunori Watanabe, T. Sakurai, M. Takamiya
{"title":"A 0.45-V input on-chip gate boosted (OGB) buck converter in 40-nm CMOS with more than 90% efficiency in load range from 2µW to 50µW","authors":"Xin Zhang, Po-Hung Chen, Y. Ryu, K. Ishida, Yasuyuki Okuma, Kazunori Watanabe, T. Sakurai, M. Takamiya","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243856","url":null,"abstract":"A 0.45-V input, 0.4-V output on-chip gate boosted (OGB) buck converter with clock gated digital PWM controller in 40-nm CMOS achieved the highest efficiency to date with the output power less than 40μW. A linear delay trimming by a logarithmic stress voltage (LSV) scheme to compensate for the die-to-die delay variations of a delay line in the PWM controller with good controllability is also proposed.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"194-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80151595","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 standard cell compatible bidirectional repeater with thyristor assist","authors":"Sudhir K. Satpathy, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243846","url":null,"abstract":"A thyristor-assisted standard cell compatible self-timed bidirectional repeater with no configuration overhead enables 8mm interconnects to achieve 37% higher speed at 20% lower energy over conventional repeaters in 65nm CMOS at 1.0V. Bidirectional operation without the need for configuration logic removes the need for clocking, yielding up to 14× higher energy efficiency at low data switching activity.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"174-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73832449","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 21.5mW 10+Gb/s mm-Wave phased-array transmitter in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Lingkai Kong, E. Alon","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243785","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 65nm mm-wave transmitter efficiently supporting QPSK modulation and phased array functionality with a proposed oscillator modulation technique. The design delivers an average output power of 1mW at 10Gb/s and 0.8mW at 14Gb/s while consuming 21.5mA DC current from a 1V supply. At 10Gb/s, an overall transmitter efficiency of 4.65% is achieved, representing ~1.8X improvement over prior art [1].","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"52-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73451055","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}
Yan Zhu, Chi-Hang Chan, Sai-Weng Sin, U. Seng-Pan, R. Martins
{"title":"A 34fJ 10b 500 MS/s partial-interleaving pipelined SAR ADC","authors":"Yan Zhu, Chi-Hang Chan, Sai-Weng Sin, U. Seng-Pan, R. Martins","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243804","url":null,"abstract":"A 10b 500MS/s ADC is presented that shares a full-speed SAR at front-end and interleaves the pipelined residue amplification with shared opamp and 2nd-stage SAR ADCs, which achieves high speed, low power and compact area. The prototype ADC in 65nm CMOS achieves a mean SNDR of 55.4dB with 8.2mW power dissipation at 1.2V. The active die area including the offset calibrations is 0.046mm2.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"95 1","pages":"90-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73559669","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 on-die all-digital delay measurement circuit with 250fs accuracy","authors":"M. Mansuri, B. Casper, F. O’Mahony","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243808","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates an in-situ delay measurement circuit which precisely characterizes key clocking circuits such as full phase rotation interpolators. This on-die all-digital circuit produces a digital output value proportional to the relative delay between two clocks, normalized to the clock period. This circuit requires no calibration for variation or process, voltage, temperature (PVT) and measures the delay with 250fs absolute accuracy and repeatability of 10fs-rms.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"66 1","pages":"98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75937661","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}
J. Savoj, K. Hsieh, P. Upadhyaya, F. An, Ade Bekele, S. Chen, Xuewen Jiang, K. Lai, Chi Fung Poon, Aman Sewani, D. Turker, Karthik Venna, Zhaoyin Daniel Wu, Bruce Xu, E. Alon, Ken Chang
{"title":"A wide common-mode fully-adaptive multi-standard 12.5Gb/s backplane transceiver in 28nm CMOS","authors":"J. Savoj, K. Hsieh, P. Upadhyaya, F. An, Ade Bekele, S. Chen, Xuewen Jiang, K. Lai, Chi Fung Poon, Aman Sewani, D. Turker, Karthik Venna, Zhaoyin Daniel Wu, Bruce Xu, E. Alon, Ken Chang","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243811","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design of a fully-adaptive backplane transceiver embedded in a state-of-the-art, low-leakage, 28nm CMOS FPGA. The receive AFE utilizes a three-stage CTLE to provide selective frequency boost for long-tail ISI cancellation. A 5-tap speculative DFE removes the immediate post-cursor ISI. Both CTLE and DFE are fully adaptive using sign-sign LMS algorithm. A novel clocking technique uses wideband LC and ring oscillators for reliable clocking from 0.6-12.5Gb/s operation. The transmitter utilizes a 3-tap FIR and provides flexibility for supply and ground referenced operation. The transceiver achieves BER <; 10-15 over a 33dB-loss backplane at 12.5Gb/s and over channels with 10G-KR characteristics at 10.3125Gb/s.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"104-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73862377","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}