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An integrated boost converter with maximum power point tracking for solar photovoltaic energy harvesting 具有最大功率跟踪的集成升压变换器用于太阳能光伏能量收集
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834888
Sung-Yao Wang, Hung-Hsien Wu, Chia-Ling Wei
An integrated boost converter with maximum power point tracking for solar photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting has been proposed. The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) function is realized with analog circuits, instead of using a microprocessor. In the proposed chip, the output power of the PV modules is controlled by modulating the on-time of the boost converter. The chip was designed and fabricated by using TSMC 0.18 μm 1P6M mixed-signal CMOS process. The total chip area is 1.08×1.25 mm2, which is much smaller than that with a microprocessor. The measured maximum tracking efficiency is 90%.
提出了一种用于太阳能光伏(PV)能量收集的集成升压变换器的最大功率点跟踪。最大功率点跟踪(MPPT)功能是用模拟电路实现的,而不是使用微处理器。在该芯片中,通过调制升压变换器的导通时间来控制光伏模块的输出功率。该芯片采用台积电0.18 μm 1P6M混合信号CMOS工艺设计制造。总芯片面积为1.08×1.25 mm2,比微处理器小得多。测量的最大跟踪效率为90%。
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引用次数: 5
Power integrity optimization on USB power distribution network for EMI reduction 降低电磁干扰的USB配电网络电源完整性优化
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834919
Kuo-Chiang Hung, Tim Chen
The main purpose of this paper is to present the method to reduce the electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise of universal serial bus (USB) hub product. Traditionally, there are a large number of methods used to reduce the EMI noise. Some methods severely increase the cost of product; some methods only improve power integrity (PI) of USB power distribution network (PDN) to a limited extent. In this paper, the present method can reduce EMI noise effectively by PI improvement using few decoupling capacitors (de-caps). More specifically, de-caps placement and value selection are the key parameters that are used to control the PDN behaviors. The results show that the present method is easy to implement and it reduces the EMI noise effectively.
本文的主要目的是提出一种降低通用串行总线集线器产品电磁干扰(EMI)噪声的方法。传统上,有大量的方法用于降低电磁干扰噪声。有些方法严重增加了产品成本;有些方法只能在有限程度上提高USB配电网络的电源完整性(PI)。在本文中,该方法通过使用少量的去耦电容(去帽)来改善PI,有效地降低了电磁干扰噪声。更具体地说,去帽位置和值选择是用于控制PDN行为的关键参数。结果表明,该方法易于实现,能有效地降低电磁干扰噪声。
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引用次数: 1
Event-driven read-out circuits for energy-efficient sensor-SoC's 用于高能效传感器soc的事件驱动读出电路
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834912
Chen-Yi Lee, Kelvin Yi-Tse Lai, S. Hsu
Smart sensors are currently demanded in various kinds of applications to pave a way for better life. To reach this goal, it is necessary to provide energy-efficient solutions with analysis capability. Though state-of-the-art SoC's can meet μW-level processing requirements, front-end sensors remain a bottleneck to be solved. In this paper, a few sensors based on event-driven techniques to improve energy-efficiency and accuracy will be first addressed. Then an ECG-SoC for mobile health-care applications will be described and illustrated.
智能传感器目前在各种应用中都需要,为更好的生活铺平道路。为了实现这一目标,有必要提供具有分析能力的节能解决方案。虽然最先进的SoC可以满足μ w级的处理要求,但前端传感器仍然是一个有待解决的瓶颈。本文首先介绍了一些基于事件驱动技术的传感器,以提高能源效率和精度。然后将描述和说明移动医疗保健应用的ECG-SoC。
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引用次数: 1
Assessing automotive functional safety microprocessor with ISO 26262 hardware requirements 根据ISO 26262硬件要求评估汽车功能安全微处理器
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834876
Yung-Chang Chang, Li-Ren Huang, Hsing-Chuang Liu, Chih-Jen Yang, C. Chiu
This paper provides a step-by-step guideline for the assessment of an automotive safety microprocessor with ISO 26262 hardware requirements. ISO 26262 part 5 - Product development at the hardware level - specifies the safety activities during the phase of the automotive hardware development. In this phase, hardware safety design is derived (from the results of ISO 26262 part 3 and 4), implemented, integrated, and tested. To prove the compliance with ISO 26262 hardware development process, quantitative evaluations on the hardware are indispensable. These quantitative evaluations are known as hardware architecture metrics and probabilistic hardware metrics. The assessment results qualify a design with an automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) which ranges from ASIL-A (lowest) to ASIL-D (highest). In this paper, we implemented an exemplary safety microprocessor to demonstrate the ISO 26262 hardware assessment process. The derivation procedures of the ASIL level from the hardware architecture metrics and probabilistic hardware metrics are fully discussed. Based on the evaluation results, we also provide design suggestions for the ISO 26262 safety hardware design.
本文为评估具有ISO 26262硬件要求的汽车安全微处理器提供了一步一步的指南。ISO 26262第5部分-硬件级别的产品开发-规定了汽车硬件开发阶段的安全活动。在这个阶段,硬件安全设计是派生的(来自ISO 26262第3部分和第4部分的结果),实现,集成和测试。为了证明硬件开发过程符合ISO 26262标准,对硬件进行定量评价是必不可少的。这些定量评估被称为硬件架构度量和概率硬件度量。评估结果使设计符合汽车安全完整性水平(ASIL),其范围从ASIL- a(最低)到ASIL- d(最高)。在本文中,我们实现了一个示例性安全微处理器来演示ISO 26262硬件评估过程。详细讨论了从硬件体系结构度量和概率硬件度量推导ASIL级别的过程。根据评价结果,对ISO 26262安全硬件设计提出了设计建议。
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引用次数: 32
LMS-based adaptive temperature prediction scheme for proactive thermal-aware three-dimensional Network-on-Chip systems 基于lms的主动热感知三维片上网络系统自适应温度预测方案
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834910
Kun-Chih Chen, Huai-Ting Li, A. Wu
The three-dimensional Network-on-Chip (3D NoC) has been proposed to solve the complex on-chip communication issues. Because of the die-stacking architecture, the thermal problem becomes more severe than in 2D NoC. To simultaneously consider the thermal safety and system performance, proactive thermal management (PDTM) has been proved as an efficient way to control the system temperature against overheat. Based on the information of predictive temperature, the PDTM can early control the system temperature. To predict the future temperature, adopting the Thermal Resistance and Capacitance (Thermal RC) model is a popular way to derive the thermal prediction scheme. However, the Thermal RC value is sensitive to temperature changes, which affect the accuracy of the future temperature estimation. Therefore, the current proactive thermal-aware NoC system still suffers from large performance impact because of imprecise future temperature estimation. In this paper, we propose an LMS-based adaptive thermal prediction (LMS-ATP) model, which can adaptively adjust the involved Thermal RC values for future temperature estimation. The experimental results show that the proposed LMS-ATP model can improve the precision of future temperature estimation by 72.96%. In addition, the system throughput can be enhanced by around 0.77% to 47.96%.
为了解决复杂的片上通信问题,提出了三维片上网络(3D NoC)。由于模层结构,热问题变得比二维NoC更严重。为了同时考虑热安全和系统性能,主动热管理(PDTM)已被证明是控制系统温度防止过热的有效方法。基于预测温度信息,PDTM可以实现对系统温度的早期控制。为了预测未来的温度,采用热阻和热容(Thermal RC)模型是一种常用的热预测方案。然而,热RC值对温度变化敏感,影响了未来温度估算的准确性。因此,由于不精确的未来温度估计,目前的主动热感知NoC系统仍然受到很大的性能影响。本文提出了一种基于lms的自适应热预测(LMS-ATP)模型,该模型可以自适应调整所涉及的热RC值,以适应未来的温度估计。实验结果表明,所提出的LMS-ATP模型对未来温度的估计精度提高了72.96%。此外,系统吞吐量可以提高约0.77%至47.96%。
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引用次数: 1
Advanced CMOS reliability challenges 先进CMOS可靠性挑战
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834931
C. Prasad
This work reviews transistors of advanced CMOS process nodes from a reliability perspective and covers some of the important challenges and solutions. Physical mechanisms for various modes are investigated for 65nm to 22nm nodes with focus on disruptive changes such as HK/MG and Tri-gate/FinFET. The importance of modeling non-idealities and variation is also emphasized, and projections are made for scaling to sub-20nm with comparisons to existing research.
本文从可靠性的角度回顾了先进CMOS工艺节点的晶体管,并涵盖了一些重要的挑战和解决方案。研究了65nm至22nm节点的各种模式的物理机制,重点研究了HK/MG和三栅极/FinFET等破坏性变化。还强调了建模非理想性和变化的重要性,并与现有研究进行了比较,对20nm以下的缩放进行了预测。
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引用次数: 9
Analog front-end amplifier for ECG applications with feed-forward EOS cancellation 模拟前端放大器的ECG应用与前馈EOS抵消
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834895
Chih-Chan Tu, Tsung-Hsien Lin
This paper presents a low-noise low-power Instrumentation Amplifier (IA) for ECG applications. Chopped capacitively-coupled IA (CCIA) is built to precisely define the gain and avoid flicker noise. The circuit for electrode offset (EOS) cancellation is implemented in feed-forward (FF) manner with an area-efficient SC integrator. The FF architecture uses less capacitor ratio to define the low HPF corner than the feedback architecture. Implemented in a 0.18-μm process, the circuit draws 4.2 μA from a 1.8 V supply, and occupies 0.63mm2. The total integrated noise from 0.5 to 100Hz is 7.37 μVrms.
介绍了一种用于心电的低噪声低功率仪表放大器。为了精确地定义增益和避免频闪噪声,构建了斩波电容耦合内插(CCIA)。电极偏移(EOS)抵消电路采用前馈(FF)方式,采用面积高效的SC积分器。FF架构比反馈架构使用更少的电容比来定义低HPF角。该电路采用0.18 μm工艺,在1.8 V电源下功耗4.2 μA,占地0.63mm2。0.5 ~ 100Hz的总集成噪声为7.37 μVrms。
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引用次数: 7
An automatic synthesis tool for nanometer low dropout regulator using simulation based model and geometric programming 基于仿真模型和几何规划的纳米级低差稳压器自动合成工具
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834871
S. Hsu, Wei-Zen Chen, Jui-Pin Zheng, Sean Shih-Ying Liu, Po-Cheng Pan, Hung-Ming Chen
This paper presents an efficient synthesis framework for Low Dropout Regulator (LDOs) automatic design to facilitate varieties of power management ICs applications. A four-stage synthesizer is proposed to deal with topology selection, transistor sizing, and layout generation automatically. The proposed approach correctly describes device behaviors in moderate and strong inversion regions for current optimization. Without trivial trial and error procedure, the “SPICE accuracy” device size mapping is provided, and the resulting layout is compact and regular while meeting analog design constraints. Using the proposed synthesis tool for LDO automatic design, a prototype chip has been successfully fabricated in 65nm CMOS process. The experimental results validate our methodology in industrial cases with high performance and meet all the target specifications.
本文提出了一种高效的低差稳压器(LDOs)自动设计的综合框架,以方便各种电源管理集成电路的应用。提出了一种自动处理拓扑选择、晶体管尺寸和布局生成的四级合成器。该方法正确地描述了器件在中强反转区的行为,便于电流优化。无需繁琐的试验和错误程序,即可提供“SPICE精度”器件尺寸映射,并且最终布局紧凑且规则,同时满足模拟设计约束。利用所提出的LDO自动设计合成工具,在65nm CMOS工艺下成功制作了原型芯片。实验结果验证了我们的方法在工业案例中的高性能,并满足所有目标规格。
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引用次数: 0
Thermal challenges to building reliable embedded systems 构建可靠嵌入式系统的热挑战
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834936
Zebo Peng
More and more embedded systems are used in safety-critical areas such as automotive electronics and medical applications. These safety-critical applications impose stringent requirements on reliability, performance, low-power and testability of the underlying VLSI circuits. With silicon technology scaling, however, VLSI circuits operate very often at high temperature, which has negative impact on reliability, performance, power-efficiency and testability. This paper discusses several thermal impacts on VLSI circuits and their related challenges. It presents also a few emerging techniques that take temperature into account in the design and test processes.
越来越多的嵌入式系统被用于安全关键领域,如汽车电子和医疗应用。这些安全关键应用对底层VLSI电路的可靠性、性能、低功耗和可测试性提出了严格的要求。然而,随着硅技术的规模化,VLSI电路经常在高温下工作,这对可靠性、性能、功率效率和可测试性产生了负面影响。本文讨论了VLSI电路的几种热影响及其相关挑战。它还介绍了一些在设计和测试过程中考虑温度的新兴技术。
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Skillfully diminishing antenna effect in layer assignment stage 在分层阶段巧妙地减小天线效应
Pub Date : 2014-04-28 DOI: 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834859
Chih-Chien Lin, Wen-Hao Liu, Yih-Lang Li
Antenna effect is an important issue that critically impacts the reliability and yield of integrated circuits. The dynamic-programming-based (DP-based) layer assignment method has been adopted to minimize antenna violation by enumerating all possible solutions and pruning inferior solutions. However, the complexities of modern circuits have significantly increased, likely causing the DP-based method to consume much more runtime and memory space. In this paper, we propose a skillful method to effectively Diminish Antenna effect in Layer Assignment Stage (DALAS). Unlike previous work that needs to search for separator locations and thus requires exploring much more solution space, DALAS does not need to search for separator locations and can deal with local and global antenna effects while trying to keep total via count and total overflow minimal. Experiment results show that DALAS is the first work to expel all antenna violations with similar via count to that produced by previous works [3][5] for the benchmarks in ISPD'08 Global Routing Contest.
天线效应是影响集成电路可靠性和成品率的一个重要问题。采用基于动态规划(dp)的分层分配方法,通过列举所有可能解并剔除劣解,使天线冲突最小化。然而,现代电路的复杂性已经显著增加,可能导致基于dp的方法消耗更多的运行时和内存空间。在本文中,我们提出了一种巧妙的方法来有效地消除层分配阶段(DALAS)中的天线效应。不像以前的工作需要搜索分离器位置,因此需要探索更多的解决方案空间,DALAS不需要搜索分离器位置,可以处理局部和全局天线效应,同时尽量保持总通过数和总溢出最小。实验结果表明,在ISPD’08全球路由竞赛的基准测试中,DALAS是第一个排除所有通过数与先前工作[3][5]相似的天线违规的工作。
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