{"title":"A 13.3 mW 60 MHz bandwidth, 76 dB DR 6 GS/s CTΔΣM with time interleaved FIR feedback","authors":"Ankesh Jain, S. Pavan","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573466","url":null,"abstract":"We present a wideband single-bit CTΔΣM that uses a 2× time-interleaved quantizer and FIR DAC. Time interleaving reduces power dissipation and regeneration errors of the FIR DAC when compared to a full rate implementation. Fabricated in a low leakage 65nm CMOS, the prototype modulator operates at 6 GS/s and achieves 67.6/76 dB SNDR/DR in a 60 MHz bandwidth while consuming 13.3 mW. The FoM is 56.5 fJ/conv-step.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"50 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76499554","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}
Jian Zhao, Xi Wang, Yang Zhao, G. Xia, A. Qiu, Yan Su, Y. Xu
{"title":"A 0.23 µg bias instability and 1.6 µg/Hz1/2 resolution silicon oscillating accelerometer with build-in Σ-Δ frequency-to-digital converter","authors":"Jian Zhao, Xi Wang, Yang Zhao, G. Xia, A. Qiu, Yan Su, Y. Xu","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573530","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a silicon oscillating accelerometer (SOA) with CMOS readout circuit. To reduce the bias instability, a PLL is employed to sustain the oscillation instead of the conventional auto-amplitude-control (AAC) circuit. A sigma-delta frequency-to-digital converter (FDC) is built in the PLL to produce the digital output. The MEMS sensor and readout circuit are fabricated in 80 μm SOI and standard 0.35 μm CMOS process, respectively. The SOA achieves 0.23 μg bias instability and 1.6 μg/Hz1/2 resolution with ±30 g full-scale, which are equivalent to 4-ppb relative instability and 27-ppb/Hz1/2resolution. In addition, it only consumes 2.7 mW under a 1.5 V supply.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73184067","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":"Versatile TLC NAND flash memory control to reduce read disturb errors by 85% and extend read cycles by 6.7-times of Read-Hot and Cold data for cloud data centers","authors":"A. Kobayashi, Tsukasa Tokutomi, K. Takeuchi","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573505","url":null,"abstract":"Versatile Triple-Level-Cell (TLC) NAND flash memory control with Read Hot/Cold Migration, Read Voltage Control and Edge Word Line Protection is proposed for data center application SSDs. Measured errors decrease by 85% and measured acceptable read cycles increase by 6.7-times.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84757564","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}
Chul Kim, Jiwoong Park, Abraham Akinin, S. Ha, R. Kubendran, Hui Wang, P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs
{"title":"A fully integrated 144 MHz wireless-power-receiver-on-chip with an adaptive buck-boost regulating rectifier and low-loss H-Tree signal distribution","authors":"Chul Kim, Jiwoong Park, Abraham Akinin, S. Ha, R. Kubendran, Hui Wang, P. Mercier, G. Cauwenberghs","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573492","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive buck-boost resonant regulating rectifier (B<sup>2</sup>R<sup>3</sup>) with an integrated on-chip coil and low-loss H-Tree power/signal distribution is presented for efficient and robust wireless power transfer (WPT) over a wide range of input and load conditions. The B<sup>2</sup>R<sup>3</sup> integrated on a 9 mm<sup>2</sup> chip powers integrated neural interfacing circuits as a load, with a TX-load power conversion efficiency of 2.64 % at 10 mm distance, resulting in a WPT system efficiency FoM of 102.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73459755","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. Nam, Mohsen Hassanpourghadi, Aoyang Zhang, M. Chen
{"title":"A 12-bit 1.6 GS/s interleaved SAR ADC with dual reference shifting and interpolation achieving 17.8 fJ/conv-step in 65nm CMOS","authors":"J. Nam, Mohsen Hassanpourghadi, Aoyang Zhang, M. Chen","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573516","url":null,"abstract":"A 12-bit SAR ADC architecture with dual reference shifting and interpolation technique has been proposed and implemented with 8-way time interleaving in 65nm CMOS. The proposed technique converts 4 bits per SAR conversion cycle with reduced overhead, which is a key to achieve both high speed and resolution while maintaining low power consumption. The measured peak SNDR is 72dB and remains above 65.3dB at 1-GHz input frequency at sample rate of 1.6 GS/s. It achieves a record power efficiency of 17.8fJ/conv-step among the recently published high-speed/resolution ADCs.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"117 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77590998","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}
T. Takemoto, Y. Matsuoka, H. Yamashita, Yong Lee, K. Akita, H. Arimoto, M. Kokubo, T. Ido
{"title":"A 50.6-Gb/s 7.8-mW/Gb/s −7.4-dBm sensitivity optical receiver based on 0.18-µm SiGe BiCMOS technology","authors":"T. Takemoto, Y. Matsuoka, H. Yamashita, Yong Lee, K. Akita, H. Arimoto, M. Kokubo, T. Ido","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573542","url":null,"abstract":"A 50.6-Gb/s optical receiver (RX) based on the 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology was fabricated and evaluated. To improve phase margin and sensitivity of the RX without degrading its power efficiency, it was configured with a two-stage pre-amplifier (preamp) with high gain (56 dBΩ) and power-supply-variation (PSV) canceller for improving sensitivity. The RX achieves sensitivity of -7.4 dBm and phase margin of 0.51 UI at 50.6 Gb/s, while its power consumption is 7.8 mW/Gb/s.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85954038","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. Bhavnagarwala, Imran Iqbal, A. Nguyen, David Ondricek, V. Chandra, R. Aitken
{"title":"A 400mV active VMIN, 200mV retention VMIN, 2.8 GHz 64Kb SRAM with a 0.09 um2 6T bitcell in a 16nm FinFET CMOS process","authors":"A. Bhavnagarwala, Imran Iqbal, A. Nguyen, David Ondricek, V. Chandra, R. Aitken","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573513","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and demonstrate in silicon simple, new circuit solutions using a standard 1-1-2 fin 0.09 um2 6T SRAM commercial bitcell in a 16nm FinFET CMOS process to enable a 400mV active VMIN, 200mV retention VMIN SRAM in a 64Kb CMOS array with 128b/BL. Active VMIN is enabled with a self-triggered feedback on an under-driven BL with faster and more robust signal development on the BL at lower voltages - providing dual read assist, and also a 2X tighter offset voltage distribution when compared to conventional differential voltage sensing. 200mV retention VMIN is enabled by reusing write assist circuit overhead while engaging two key observations: insensitivity of bitcell stability to systematic variations and sensitivity of bitcell data to noise on the power grid in the subthreshold/near threshold region. Average FMAX of 140MHz and 2.8GHz are measured across all chips for VDD at 0.4V and 0.9V respectively.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"75 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86302586","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 inductor-less fractional-N injection-locked PLL with a spur-and-phase-noise filtering technique","authors":"A. Li, Y. Chao, Xuan Chen, Liang Wu, H. Luong","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573547","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing a novel phase-averaging filtering technique capable of wide-band spur-and-phase-noise suppression of up to 20dB, a 1.2-GHz inductor-less fractional-N injection-locked PLL achieves phase noise as low as -146dBc/Hz at 30MHz offset with 2MHz resolution allowing for inductor-less alternatives to LC-based PLLs in wireless applications. The 65nm CMOS prototype improves 10-MHz phase noise from -115 to -135dBc/Hz, injection spurs from -40.5dB to -57dB, and integrated jitter from 3.57ps to 1.48ps while occupying an area of 0.6mm2 and consuming 19.8mW from a 0.85V supply resulting in FoM and FoMJitter of -163dB and -223.6dB respectively.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85276600","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}
Yang Xu, Spencer Leuenberger, Praveen Kumar Venkatachala, U. Moon
{"title":"A 0.6mW 31MHz 4th-order low-pass filter with +29dBm IIP3 using self-coupled source follower based biquads in 0.18µm CMOS","authors":"Yang Xu, Spencer Leuenberger, Praveen Kumar Venkatachala, U. Moon","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573507","url":null,"abstract":"A highly compact low-pass filter (LPF) using self-coupled source follower based biquads is presented. The biquad cell synthesizes a 2nd-order low-pass transfer function in a single branch, using only two capacitors and a source follower with embedded local feedback for excellent linearity. A 4th-order Chebyshev LPF prototype is designed with a cascade of two biquads in 0.18μm CMOS, and occupies an active area of 0.1mm2. A cut-off frequency of 31MHz is measured with a stop-band rejection of 76dB. The prototype filter draws only 0.46mA current from a 1.35V supply, and achieves an in-band IIP3 of +29dBm. The averaged in-band input-referred noise is 22.8nV/√Hz, resulting in a dynamic range of 71dB.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"54 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80606552","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}
Zhewei Jiang, J. P. Cerqueira, Seongjong Kim, Qi Wang, Mingoo Seok
{"title":"1.74-µW/ch, 95.3%-accurate spike-sorting hardware based on Bayesian decision","authors":"Zhewei Jiang, J. P. Cerqueira, Seongjong Kim, Qi Wang, Mingoo Seok","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2016.7573468","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents algorithm/hardware co-design for real-time unsupervised spike sorting hardware for reducing power and improving sorting accuracy. We devise an algorithm based on Bayesian decision, which enables high accuracy while using noisy and simple time-domain features. Those simple features significantly reduce computation complexity, memory requirement, and thus the required number of cycles per sorting. The latter, coupled with the sparsity of spikes in time, makes the hardware idle for most of time, and thus we employ aggressive power gating and balloon latches to sleep most of the circuits and wake them up only when a spike is detected for maximal power savings. The hardware prototyped in a 65nm achieves higher accuracy at lower power than the existing arts.","PeriodicalId":6512,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)","volume":"23 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90729444","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}