{"title":"A cascadable 200 GOPS motion estimation chip for HDTV applications","authors":"J. Berns, T. Noll","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510574","url":null,"abstract":"A flexible block matching motion estimation chip is described with variable sized blocks between 8/spl times/8 and 32/spl times/32 pixels. Each chip performs block matching with a search area of /spl plusmn/15 vertically and horizontally for a block size of 32/spl times/32. For larger search areas devices can be cascaded. Besides full search, fast algorithms can be emulated. Sub-pel precision motion vectors can be calculated using a smaller search area or cascading devices. The chip will have a computational power of more than 200 GOPS and a die size of 170 mm/sup 2/ in an 0.5-/spl mu/m CMOS technology.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"355-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77002721","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}
Y. Ohtomo, T. Mizusawa, K. Nishimura, H. Sawada, M. Ino
{"title":"A quarter-micron SIMOX-CMOS LVTTL-compatible gate array with an over 2,000 V ESD-protection circuit","authors":"Y. Ohtomo, T. Mizusawa, K. Nishimura, H. Sawada, M. Ino","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510511","url":null,"abstract":"A quarter-micron SIMOX-CMOS gate array with an LVTTL interface is described. The SIMOX-CMOS gates have the same delay at 1.2 V of supply voltage as that of the gates in 0.5-/spl mu/m bulk CMOS at 3.3 V and reduce power consumption 87%. The interface circuits in the array convert 3.3 V external signal from/to 2.0 V-1.2 V internal signal with little power penalty. An ESD protection circuit for the chip shows over 2,000 V of ESD hardness in the advanced SIMOX-CMOS having 50-nm thick silicon film.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"57-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73212100","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 efficient approach to device parameter extraction for statistical IC modeling","authors":"M. Qu, M. Styblinski","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.511091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.511091","url":null,"abstract":"A technique called Recursive Inverse Approximation (RIA) has been developed for parameter extraction for statistical IC modeling. High accuracy and efficiency are achieved by the proposed methodology. RIA combines the global optimization, parameter prediction, parameter correction, and accuracy checking. RIA fundamentally solves the accuracy problem in statistical IC parameter extraction. The proposed method is much faster than the optimization-based method. The technique was implemented in SMIC - a program for statistical modeling of integrated circuits.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"87 1","pages":"329-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74556598","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 low noise readout detector circuit for nano-ampere sensor applications","authors":"D. Thelen, D. D. Chu","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510561","url":null,"abstract":"A readout detector integrated circuit (IC) has been developed which is capable of detecting nano-ampere photo-current signals of interest in a high (micro-ampere) background illumination or DC noise level (SNR=92 dB). The readout detector sensor IC processes transient signals of interest from a separate photodiode pixel array chip. Low noise signal conditioning, filtering, and signal thresholding implement smart sensor detection of only \"active pixels\". This detector circuit can also be used to perform signal conditioning for other sensor applications that require detection of very small signals in a high background noise environment.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"291-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79353876","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":"Efficient standard cell generation when diffusion strapping is required","authors":"B. Guan, C. Sechen","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510606","url":null,"abstract":"The authors have proposed a single contact layout style (SC style) for CMOS standard cells with regular and compact structure, based on the assumption that a single diffusion contact is sufficient. In reality, the assumption is not always true. They therefore propose a partial strapping style (PS style) for use when diffusion strapping is required. The PS style keeps all the features of the SC style. The structure uses less area for individual cells, allows easy embedding of feedthroughs in the cell, and enables output pins to occur at any grid location. Using an exact algorithm to generate static CMOS cells with a minimum number of diffusion breaks ensures that the width of the cells is minimized. For the PS style, a constructive routing algorithm is used to perform the intra-cell routing. An exhaustive search among the minimum width cells produces the minimum height cell. Results show that cells in the PS style have cell height very close to those in the SC style. Furthermore, cells using either layout style achieve significant area savings compared to cells using the traditional full strapping style.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"501-504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85468346","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":"Practical analysis of cyclic combinational circuits","authors":"A. Srinivasan, S. Malik","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510580","url":null,"abstract":"Cycles arise in combinational logic circuits under a variety of different circumstances. Typically a cyclic combinational circuit consists of a set of acyclic circuits multiplexed to share resources in a cyclic topology. Recently Malik (1993) provided an algorithm for deciding if a given circuit with cycles is combinational and also an algorithm for static timing analysis of such circuits. The logical analysis technique was based on OBDDs and the timing analysis technique was based on solving the false path problem for a large and complex circuit. As a result that method does not scale well to very large circuits. Prior to the present work, the only option left for designers was to do a case analysis by manually identifying the different acyclic circuits multiplexed in the cyclic structure, and then performing logical and timing analysis on this set of acyclic circuits. In this paper, we provide an analysis technique that automatically identifies the set of acyclic circuits constituting the cyclic circuit. This enables designers to directly use existing logical and timing analysis tools on this set of acyclic circuits. In addition to providing a more intuitive analysis, the proposed algorithm also scales easily to handle the very large circuits encountered in practice, with runtimes of a few hundred seconds on circuits with over 15000 gates.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"381-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77269489","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":"Exact multi-layer topological planar routing","authors":"O. Coudert, C. Shi","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510538","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an exact algorithm for multi-layer topological planar routing in switchboxes and channels. Using recent developments in set covering resolution, this method produces in a few minutes the optimum solutions for routing problems that were previously solved by heuristics.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"55 1","pages":"179-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91381850","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 angular rate sensor interface IC","authors":"S. Zarabadi, P.E. Castillo-Borelly, J.D. Johnson","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510565","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an interface IC that maintains the vibration of a surface micro-machined yaw rate sensor and processes its angular rate signal. In addition, it provides the necessary electronics to compensate for the nonuniformities, parameter shifts with temperature, and offset and sensitivity variations of the sensor. The IC has been fabricated in a 1.2 /spl mu/m CMOS process that includes a high voltage MOS transistor. Experimental results of several key circuit blocks and the angular rate sensor system indicate proper operation over temperature and supply voltage.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"73 1","pages":"311-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86391220","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":"Implementing and evaluating adiabatic arithmetic units","authors":"M. C. Knapp, P. Kindlmann, M. Papaefthymiou","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510524","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, several adiabatic logic architectures have been proposed for low-power VLSI design. However, no work has been presented describing the implementation and evaluation of nontrivial adiabatic circuits. We have evaluated a specific adiabatic architecture and used it in the design of low-power arithmetic units. We investigated implementation issues specific to adiabatic system development and performed a systematic comparison of our designs with corresponding CMOS circuits. In this paper we describe our adiabatic designs, discuss implementation issues at the logic and architectural level, and report our empirical findings.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"115-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89765544","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}
Yuhua Cheng, M. Jeng, Zhihong Liu, Kai Chen, M. Chan, C. Hu, Ping Keung Kox
{"title":"An investigation on the robustness, accuracy and simulation performance of a physics-based deep-submicronmeter BSIM model for analog/digital circuit simulation","authors":"Yuhua Cheng, M. Jeng, Zhihong Liu, Kai Chen, M. Chan, C. Hu, Ping Keung Kox","doi":"10.1109/CICC.1996.510567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1996.510567","url":null,"abstract":"We present an accurate and unified MOSFET model with benchmark test results for analog/digital circuit simulation. The results show that the model can pass most benchmarks suggested for a model used in circuit simulation by SEMATECH recently, and ensures good scalability and accuracy. The model has been implemented in HSpice, Spectre, SmartSpice and Spice3e2.","PeriodicalId":74515,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"321-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89281744","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}