{"title":"A 15 GHz-bandwidth 20dBm PSAT power amplifier with 22% PAE in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Junlei Zhao, M. Bassi, A. Mazzanti, F. Svelto","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338363","url":null,"abstract":"Generation of broadband power at mm-wave frequencies with high efficiency is challenging, because of the low gain of CMOS devices and the trade-off between efficiency and gain-bandwidth product (GBW). Power amplifiers (PAs) with multiple paths, leveraging power splitters and combiners are the most popular choice to achieve high output power, but tradeoff between efficiency and GBW still exists. In fact, most of the high-efficiency PAs have a relatively narrow bandwidth, not adequate for applications such as IEEE820.15 or Wigig. Since PAs' bandwidth is limited by the large parasitic capacitors at the input and output of the gain stages, design techniques for power splitters, combiners and interstage networks play a key role in achieving wide bandwidth without sacrificing gain and efficiency. In this work, coupled resonators networks are exploited to achieve more than 2x enhancement of GBW. A design technique to embed the classical coupled resonators networks into power splitters and combiners is presented for the first time. By applying this technique to a 3-stages 2-way power combining PA, measured prototypes show broadband operation from 58.5 to 73.5 GHz with 30dB gain, 20dBm output power and a remarkable 22% PAE.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86285001","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 51 pW reference-free capacitive-discharging oscillator architecture operating at 2.8 Hz","authors":"Hui Wang, P. Mercier","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338395","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a gate-leakage-based Hz-range oscillator that achieves ultra-low-power frequency-stable operation in a small area via a capacitive-discharging architecture. By pre-charging two capacitors to VDD, and then allowing one to discharge through a temperature stable discharging path, an accurate clock period is generated independent of VDD and without a power-expensive reference. By exploiting the opposite temperature dependencies of different gate-leakage transistors, a stable oscillation frequency is achieved. Implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process, the proposed oscillator consumes 51 pW at 2.8 Hz. Across a temperature range of -40 °C to 60 °C, the oscillator deviates down to ±0.05% /°C, enabling an accurate, low-cost, low-power timing solution at Hz-range frequency.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86386146","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":"Session 12 — Tutorial — beyond CMOS: Large area electronics-concepts and prospects","authors":"R. Aitken, T. Iizuka","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338469","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. While the trend in CMOS semiconductor is to miniaturize the devices and circuits at affordable cost, the development of organic and thin film field-effect transistors is driven by their potential use in low-cost electronic circuits on large-area flexible substrates. Recent significant performance improvement in transistors for large-area electronics raises a lot of attractive applications such as new display, bio-array sensors, large-area flexible sensors, low-cost RFID tags, etc. This embedded tutorial discusses recent advances in the field of large area electronics including organic and thin film transistors in addition to CMOS.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"251 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73468112","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":"Supply noise induced jitter modeling and optimization for high-speed interfaces","authors":"D. Oh, Yujeong Shim, Guang Chen","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338439","url":null,"abstract":"• Issues and challenges in power distribution network design • Basics of power supply induced jitter (PSIJ) modeling — Power distribution network (PDN) modeling — Jitter sensitivity function modeling • PSIJ design and modeling for key applications — Memory and parallel bus interfaces — Serial links — Digital logic timing.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"386 1","pages":"1-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74276654","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. DeBrosse, T. Maffitt, Yutaka Nakamura, G. Jan, P. Wang
{"title":"A fully-functional 90nm 8Mb STT MRAM demonstrator featuring trimmed, reference cell-based sensing","authors":"J. DeBrosse, T. Maffitt, Yutaka Nakamura, G. Jan, P. Wang","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338359","url":null,"abstract":"Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive RAM (STT MRAM) has uniquely attractive write performance and endurance characteristics. Nonetheless, little STT MRAM circuit hardware data has been published [1-4]. This paper describes a fully-functional 90nm 8Mb STT MRAM, identifies and describes solutions to the primary circuit challenges, and includes considerable circuit hardware data.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"237 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80404637","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}
Jihoon Jeong, Francois Atallah, Hoan Nguyen, Josh Puckett, K. Bowman, David Hansquine
{"title":"A 16nm configurable pass-gate bit-cell register file for quantifying the VMIN advantage of PFET versus NFET pass-gate bit cells","authors":"Jihoon Jeong, Francois Atallah, Hoan Nguyen, Josh Puckett, K. Bowman, David Hansquine","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338444","url":null,"abstract":"A 16nm configurable pass-gate bit-cell register file allows a direct comparison of NFET versus PFET pass-gate bit cells for early technology evaluation. The configurable pass gate enables either a transmission-gate (TG), an NFET pass gate, or a PFET pass gate. From silicon test-chip measurement, the register file with PFET pass-gate bit cells achieves a 33% minimum supply voltage (VMIN) reduction in a 16nm FinFET technology and a 40% VMIN reduction in an enhanced 16nm FinFET technology as compared to a register file with NFET pass-gate bit cells. Test-chip measurements highlight the superior benefits of the PFET drive current relative to the NFET drive current at low voltages. The VMIN improvement with a PFET pass-gate bit cell represents a paradigm-shift from traditional CMOS circuit-design practices.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"77 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89229228","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":"390–640MHz tunable oscillator based on phase interpolation with −120dBc/Hz in-band noise","authors":"Xu Meng, Lianhong Zhou, Fujian Lin, C. Heng","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338451","url":null,"abstract":"A high frequency tunable oscillator (TO) based on phase interpolation has been studied. It first employs injection-locked digitally-controlled ring oscillator (ILDRO) to obtain low phase noise high frequency fixed reference with multi-phase output. ΔΣ modulator (ΔΣM) is then applied to achieve phase interpolation for frequency tuning. This method enables the creation of low phase noise tunable high frequency reference that can be applied to a normal integer-N PLL. Implemented in UMC CMOS 65nm technology, the TO achieves frequency resolution of 0.2 kHz and phase noise lower than -120dBc/Hz@100kHz, while occupying an area of only 0.257mm2.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"124 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86577935","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 voltage doubling passive rectifier/regulator circuit for biomedical implants","authors":"Edward K. F. Lee","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338428","url":null,"abstract":"A circuit called prectulator is proposed in this paper. It utilizes the output transistor (M<sub>pr</sub>) of a linear regulator also as a passive rectifier for providing a regulated DC output from an AC input. The bulk voltage and the gate voltage (V<sub>g</sub>) of M<sub>pr</sub> are biased by an auxiliary rectifier and an error amplifier (A<sub>e</sub>), respectively. During startup and overload situations, overdriving M<sub>pr</sub> may occur and is prevented by limiting V<sub>g</sub> inside A<sub>e</sub>. Using this technique, a voltage doubling prectulator was implemented in a 0.18μm CMOS process. At 15MHz with a peak AC voltage of 3.6V, a power efficient of 87.7% and a voltage conversion ratio of 1.67 were achieved for a 6V output with a load power of 46.8mW.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"136 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85355190","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. Mirbozorgi, H. Bahrami, M. Sawan, L. Rusch, B. Gosselin
{"title":"A full-duplex wireless integrated transceiver for implant-to-air data communications","authors":"S. Mirbozorgi, H. Bahrami, M. Sawan, L. Rusch, B. Gosselin","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2015.7338430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2015.7338430","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel fully integrated full-duplex data transceiver to support bidirectional high-data rate neural interfaces (electrical stimulation and neural recording). The transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) are designed to share a single implantable antenna. The TX generates IR-UWB based on edge combining, and the RX uses a novel ISM-2.4-GHz narrow-band OOK receiver. Separation between the TX and RX path is implemented by: 1) properly shaping the transmitted pulse, so its spectrum falls between 3.1 and 7 GHz UWB subband, and 2) carefully filtering the spectrum of the received waveform directly in the receiver low-noise amplifier (LNA), to avoid using a circulator or a diplexer (found in most full duplex systems). The receiver is designed to support downlink telemetry of neural stimulation applications with a data rate as high as 100 Mbps within a power budget of 5 mW. The transmitter is designed to support uplink back telemetry of neural recording applications with a data rate of up to 500 Mbps for power consumption of 5.4 mW and 10.8 mW for OOK and BPSK modulations, respectively (10.8 pJ/b). Measurement results obtained with biological tissues confirm full functionality of the fabricated full duplex transceiver. The total size of the chip is 0.8 mm2.","PeriodicalId":6665,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84204788","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}