Pub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3529116
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Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2024.3524245
You Li, David E. Duarte, James S. Ayers, Yongping Fan
{"title":"Compact PNP BJT-Based Temperature Sensor and Sub-1-V Bandgap Reference for SoC Applications in 4-nm FinFET","authors":"You Li, David E. Duarte, James S. Ayers, Yongping Fan","doi":"10.1109/jssc.2024.3524245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.2024.3524245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3527075
Yingping Chen;Qing Yuan;Ming Liu
As electromagnetic interference (EMI) standards evolve from the rules-based approach to the risk-based alternate, online EMI assessment and control become critical for lifetime risk management. With such a trend, this article presents an online closed-loop EMI regulation for gallium-nitride (GaN) power converter. Specifically, a wide-bandwidth in situ EMI sensor is integrated to characterize the noise through autocovariance-based spectrum analysis. A stepwise random space sampling (SRSS) significantly compresses the sensing time without sacrificing the accuracy for real-time EMI spectral characterization. Based on the online measured noise, a global excess-spectrum modulator is devised to adaptively track, and hence, continuously regulate the maximum excess noise. A prototype chip was fabricated in a 180-nm BCD process, commanding two enhancement-mode GaN power switches at a nominal frequency of 2.8 MHz. The measurement results show that the integrated in situ EMI sensor can capture the EMI spectra with a 500-MHz sampling bandwidth and 1-mV sensing accuracy while reducing the sensing time by over 25 times. Compared to the commercial spectrum analyzer, it demonstrates a maximum discrepancy of 3 dB. The embedded global excess-spectrum modulator accomplishes a 9-kHz-resolution EMI regulation, dynamically optimizing the EMI control.
{"title":"A Closed-Loop EMI Regulated GaN Power Converter With In Situ EMI Sensing and Global Excess-Spectrum Modulation","authors":"Yingping Chen;Qing Yuan;Ming Liu","doi":"10.1109/JSSC.2025.3527075","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSSC.2025.3527075","url":null,"abstract":"As electromagnetic interference (EMI) standards evolve from the rules-based approach to the risk-based alternate, online EMI assessment and control become critical for lifetime risk management. With such a trend, this article presents an online closed-loop EMI regulation for gallium-nitride (GaN) power converter. Specifically, a wide-bandwidth in situ EMI sensor is integrated to characterize the noise through autocovariance-based spectrum analysis. A stepwise random space sampling (SRSS) significantly compresses the sensing time without sacrificing the accuracy for real-time EMI spectral characterization. Based on the online measured noise, a global excess-spectrum modulator is devised to adaptively track, and hence, continuously regulate the maximum excess noise. A prototype chip was fabricated in a 180-nm BCD process, commanding two enhancement-mode GaN power switches at a nominal frequency of 2.8 MHz. The measurement results show that the integrated in situ EMI sensor can capture the EMI spectra with a 500-MHz sampling bandwidth and 1-mV sensing accuracy while reducing the sensing time by over 25 times. Compared to the commercial spectrum analyzer, it demonstrates a maximum discrepancy of 3 dB. The embedded global excess-spectrum modulator accomplishes a 9-kHz-resolution EMI regulation, dynamically optimizing the EMI control.","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"60 3","pages":"883-893"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2025.3527038
Zhiguo Tong, Junwei Huang, Xiangyu Mao, Rui P. Martins, Yan Lu
{"title":"A Bidirectional USB Power Delivery Voltage-Regulating Cable","authors":"Zhiguo Tong, Junwei Huang, Xiangyu Mao, Rui P. Martins, Yan Lu","doi":"10.1109/jssc.2025.3527038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.2025.3527038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3514870
Hongzhuo Liu;Wei Deng;Haikun Jia;Zhihua Wang;Baoyong Chi
This work presents an ultra-low-jitter fractional-N PLL capable of wideband fast hopping. There is an analog proportional path and a digital proportional/integral path in the PLL. The PLL is digital-path-dominant during settling and analog-path-dominant after settles; therefore, the fast-lock characteristic of the digital PLLs and the low-jitter characteristic of the analog PLLs are achieved. The frequency switching algorithm does not rely on the linearity of DCO’s tuning curve, nor rely on the hopping step between the previously locked frequency and the target frequency. The frequency detection is based on a high-speed counter, which uses the quadruple timing margin selection and can operate up to 20 GHz. The counter is integrated with a feedback clock generator, which is functionally the same as a multi-modulus divider. In addition, this work proposes an LC delay circuit as the coarse digital-to-time converter (DTC), which has better potential than the RC-based counterparts to reduce the phase noise of DTC and thereby reduce the jitter of fractional-N PLLs. The prototype is implemented in 28-nm CMOS process and occupies 0.21-mm2 core area. The measured hopping time is $0.52~{mu }$ s across a 3.5-GHz step with 80-ppm settling accuracy. The measured rms jitter (integrated from 1 kHz to 100 MHz) is 36.8 fs for the integer-N channel, 41.3 fs for the far-integer fractional-N channel, and 61.7 fs for the near-integer fractional-N channel. The measured near-integer fractional spur is -62.4 dBc. The measured power consumption is 34 mW.
{"title":"An Ultra-Low-Jitter Fast-Hopping Fractional-N PLL With LC DTC and Hybrid-Proportional Paths","authors":"Hongzhuo Liu;Wei Deng;Haikun Jia;Zhihua Wang;Baoyong Chi","doi":"10.1109/JSSC.2024.3514870","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSSC.2024.3514870","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an ultra-low-jitter fractional-N PLL capable of wideband fast hopping. There is an analog proportional path and a digital proportional/integral path in the PLL. The PLL is digital-path-dominant during settling and analog-path-dominant after settles; therefore, the fast-lock characteristic of the digital PLLs and the low-jitter characteristic of the analog PLLs are achieved. The frequency switching algorithm does not rely on the linearity of DCO’s tuning curve, nor rely on the hopping step between the previously locked frequency and the target frequency. The frequency detection is based on a high-speed counter, which uses the quadruple timing margin selection and can operate up to 20 GHz. The counter is integrated with a feedback clock generator, which is functionally the same as a multi-modulus divider. In addition, this work proposes an LC delay circuit as the coarse digital-to-time converter (DTC), which has better potential than the RC-based counterparts to reduce the phase noise of DTC and thereby reduce the jitter of fractional-N PLLs. The prototype is implemented in 28-nm CMOS process and occupies 0.21-mm2 core area. The measured hopping time is <inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.52~{mu }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>s across a 3.5-GHz step with 80-ppm settling accuracy. The measured rms jitter (integrated from 1 kHz to 100 MHz) is 36.8 fs for the integer-N channel, 41.3 fs for the far-integer fractional-N channel, and 61.7 fs for the near-integer fractional-N channel. The measured near-integer fractional spur is -62.4 dBc. The measured power consumption is 34 mW.","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"60 3","pages":"785-798"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents a 16-bit 5-MS/s successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with the proposed split sampling (SS) technique. The SS decouples the sampling and conversion operations of the ADC, effectively addressing the tradeoff among the driving burden of the digital-to-analog converter (DAC), sampling noise, power, and bit-cycling speed. The SS consists of 2 20-pF sampling capacitors and a 1-pF DAC. The sampling capacitors sample the input with low noise and cancel the kT/C noise of the DAC, avoiding the preamplifier saturation issue and easing the noise aliasing. As the sampling capacitors track the input when the DAC is performing bit-cycling, the input driving is eased with the extended tracking time. The small DAC guarantees fast speed and low power. Moreover, statistical residue measurement (SRM) is employed to reduce the preamplifier’s noise and the quantization noise, efficiently improving the signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) and the bit weight calibration accuracy. The ADC is fabricated in a 180-nm process and occupies an active area of 0.57 mm2. With the SS and SRM, the ADC samples at 5 MS/s and achieves a 93.7-dB SNDR with a 5.31-mW power consumption, yielding a high Schreier-figure-of-merit (FoM) of 180.4 dB.
{"title":"A 5-MS/s 16-bit Low-Noise and Low-Power Split Sampling SAR ADC With Eased Driving Burden","authors":"Qifeng Huang;Siji Huang;Yanhang Chen;Yifei Fan;Qiwei Zhao;Jie Yuan","doi":"10.1109/JSSC.2025.3526595","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSSC.2025.3526595","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a 16-bit 5-MS/s successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with the proposed split sampling (SS) technique. The SS decouples the sampling and conversion operations of the ADC, effectively addressing the tradeoff among the driving burden of the digital-to-analog converter (DAC), sampling noise, power, and bit-cycling speed. The SS consists of 2 20-pF sampling capacitors and a 1-pF DAC. The sampling capacitors sample the input with low noise and cancel the kT/C noise of the DAC, avoiding the preamplifier saturation issue and easing the noise aliasing. As the sampling capacitors track the input when the DAC is performing bit-cycling, the input driving is eased with the extended tracking time. The small DAC guarantees fast speed and low power. Moreover, statistical residue measurement (SRM) is employed to reduce the preamplifier’s noise and the quantization noise, efficiently improving the signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) and the bit weight calibration accuracy. The ADC is fabricated in a 180-nm process and occupies an active area of 0.57 mm2. With the SS and SRM, the ADC samples at 5 MS/s and achieves a 93.7-dB SNDR with a 5.31-mW power consumption, yielding a high Schreier-figure-of-merit (FoM) of 180.4 dB.","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"60 3","pages":"813-825"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Low-Jitter and Wide-Frequency-Range D-Band Frequency Synthesizer With a Subsampling PLL and a Harmonic-Boosting Frequency Multiplier","authors":"Seohee Jung, Jaeho Kim, Jooeun Bang, Sarang Lee, Heein Yoon, Jaehyouk Choi","doi":"10.1109/jssc.2024.3523474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.2024.3523474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1109/jssc.2025.3525958
Edward Liu, David Munzer, Jeongseok Lee, Jianping Zeng, Hua Wang
{"title":"A 27–39-GHz VSWR-Resilient Compact True Power and Gain Sensor With Built-In Sensing Error Compensation for Integrated Power Amplifiers","authors":"Edward Liu, David Munzer, Jeongseok Lee, Jianping Zeng, Hua Wang","doi":"10.1109/jssc.2025.3525958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.2025.3525958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13129,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}