Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981210
N. Yakymets, K. Jabeur, I. O’Connor, S. Le Beux
In this article, a new methodology for mapping applications onto matrix-based nanocomputer architectures is proposed. It takes into account the structural characteristics and connectivity restrictions of cell matrices and can be used (i) for the partitioning and mapping of applications, (ii) for the generation of alternative mapping configurations with required area, power and delay characteristics and (iii) for the comparison of different architectures and adjusting their parameters. The methodology shows significant improvement in routing area (∼36%) and wire width (∼33%) over existing mapping algorithms.
{"title":"Mapping methodology and analysis of matrix-based nanocomputer architectures","authors":"N. Yakymets, K. Jabeur, I. O’Connor, S. Le Beux","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981210","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a new methodology for mapping applications onto matrix-based nanocomputer architectures is proposed. It takes into account the structural characteristics and connectivity restrictions of cell matrices and can be used (i) for the partitioning and mapping of applications, (ii) for the generation of alternative mapping configurations with required area, power and delay characteristics and (iii) for the comparison of different architectures and adjusting their parameters. The methodology shows significant improvement in routing area (∼36%) and wire width (∼33%) over existing mapping algorithms.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128161216","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981268
Urs A. Muller, S. Tanner, P. Farine
In this paper, the design of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) for a 32×32 pixel microelectrode array (MEA) is presented. Its gain and noise amount to 50 dB and 10μVrms, respectively, at a bandwidth of 66kHz. The LNA consumes less than 85μW. The integrated offset compensation circuit makes the system less sensitive to mismatch and variations in the culture medium biasing voltage. A sample& hold (S&H) buffer stores the amplified input signals locally, thereby realising an electronic shutter function. This allows for simultaneous acquisition of all pixels. The on-chip logic permits individual selection of every single pixel at any time. As a result, regions of interest (ROIs) of any size can be defined. Accordingly, the entire cell culture or subregions can be observed at a high sampling rate. Moreover, each pixel is equipped with a stimulation circuitry. Centered around a programmable SRAM cell, it offers the creation of complex stimulation patterns on the MEA. The entire circuit has been layouted in 180 nm, 3.3V CMOS technology and covers an area of 60×60 μm2.
{"title":"Low-noise amplifier with sample & hold for high-density stimulation and recording of neural signals","authors":"Urs A. Muller, S. Tanner, P. Farine","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981268","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the design of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) for a 32×32 pixel microelectrode array (MEA) is presented. Its gain and noise amount to 50 dB and 10μVrms, respectively, at a bandwidth of 66kHz. The LNA consumes less than 85μW. The integrated offset compensation circuit makes the system less sensitive to mismatch and variations in the culture medium biasing voltage. A sample& hold (S&H) buffer stores the amplified input signals locally, thereby realising an electronic shutter function. This allows for simultaneous acquisition of all pixels. The on-chip logic permits individual selection of every single pixel at any time. As a result, regions of interest (ROIs) of any size can be defined. Accordingly, the entire cell culture or subregions can be observed at a high sampling rate. Moreover, each pixel is equipped with a stimulation circuitry. Centered around a programmable SRAM cell, it offers the creation of complex stimulation patterns on the MEA. The entire circuit has been layouted in 180 nm, 3.3V CMOS technology and covers an area of 60×60 μm2.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122471897","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 spread-spectrum clock generator (SSCG) with self-calibration circuit (SCC) is presented in this paper. By the use of self-calibration scheme, exploited the proposed linear circuit and a SCC, the gain of Kvco can be effectively reduced and the jitter performance is improved. Moreover, the proposed architecture provides an alternative technique for low Kvco instead of the commonly used methods for voltage-control oscillator (VCO) calibration. The SCC-based SSCG ensures phase locking under the process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. For spread-spectrum clocking, the digital MASH delta-sigma modulator and a 33-kHz triangular addressor is used. The proposed SSCG generates an output clock of 3 GHz and approximate 5000-ppm down spreading with a triangular-modulated shape. The SSCG has been designed in TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology. Operating at a 3-GHz clock rate, the peak-to-peak jitter of non spread-spectrum is 3.85 ps. The electromagnetic interference (EMI) reduction is larger than 20 dB with a triangular-modulated frequency of 3–2.985 GHz.
{"title":"A 3 GHz spread-spectrum clock generator with a self-calibration technique","authors":"Chi-Yang Chang, Cheng-Liang Hung, Yu-Chen Lin, Kuo-Hsing Cheng","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981284","url":null,"abstract":"A spread-spectrum clock generator (SSCG) with self-calibration circuit (SCC) is presented in this paper. By the use of self-calibration scheme, exploited the proposed linear circuit and a SCC, the gain of Kvco can be effectively reduced and the jitter performance is improved. Moreover, the proposed architecture provides an alternative technique for low Kvco instead of the commonly used methods for voltage-control oscillator (VCO) calibration. The SCC-based SSCG ensures phase locking under the process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. For spread-spectrum clocking, the digital MASH delta-sigma modulator and a 33-kHz triangular addressor is used. The proposed SSCG generates an output clock of 3 GHz and approximate 5000-ppm down spreading with a triangular-modulated shape. The SSCG has been designed in TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology. Operating at a 3-GHz clock rate, the peak-to-peak jitter of non spread-spectrum is 3.85 ps. The electromagnetic interference (EMI) reduction is larger than 20 dB with a triangular-modulated frequency of 3–2.985 GHz.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122772313","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981299
Fu-Chiung Cheng, Chi Chen, Yu-Jai Wu
Quasi-Delay insensitive (QDI) circuits are the most robust and practical circuits that can be built and are resilient to process, temperature and voltage variations. However, QDI circuits suffer from high area overhead due to C-elements, used to prevent timing violation from internal unstable signals. A general optimization scheme to synthesize any Boolean function into our QDI model is proposed and illustrated. The experimental results in FPGAs indicate significant cost reduction over Balsa original design [5–7].
{"title":"An efficient and robust implementation of QDI datapath components","authors":"Fu-Chiung Cheng, Chi Chen, Yu-Jai Wu","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981299","url":null,"abstract":"Quasi-Delay insensitive (QDI) circuits are the most robust and practical circuits that can be built and are resilient to process, temperature and voltage variations. However, QDI circuits suffer from high area overhead due to C-elements, used to prevent timing violation from internal unstable signals. A general optimization scheme to synthesize any Boolean function into our QDI model is proposed and illustrated. The experimental results in FPGAs indicate significant cost reduction over Balsa original design [5–7].","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132577308","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981220
Martin Dubois, M. Boukadoum
With the advent of increasingly higher numbers of processors on-chip, task scheduling has become an important concern in system design, and research in this area has produced substantial and diversified knowledge. As a result, the efficient management and taping of this knowledge has become a concern in itself. This paper addresses the issue of how to effectively extract performance information about a scheduling algorithm in the context of a set of applications, by learning the association rules between the applications' attributes and the algorithms' performance metrics. The new methodology that is presented serves to both increase the designer's knowledge about a particular scheduling algorithm and compare algorithms.
{"title":"Association rules learning technique for knowledge mining about scheduling algorithm performance","authors":"Martin Dubois, M. Boukadoum","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981220","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of increasingly higher numbers of processors on-chip, task scheduling has become an important concern in system design, and research in this area has produced substantial and diversified knowledge. As a result, the efficient management and taping of this knowledge has become a concern in itself. This paper addresses the issue of how to effectively extract performance information about a scheduling algorithm in the context of a set of applications, by learning the association rules between the applications' attributes and the algorithms' performance metrics. The new methodology that is presented serves to both increase the designer's knowledge about a particular scheduling algorithm and compare algorithms.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116668913","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981330
M. Bounouar, F. Calmon, A. Beaumont, M. Guilmain, W. Xuan, S. Ecoffey, D. Drouin
A novel analytical and compact model of Single Electron Transistor (SET) is developed and implemented in Verilog-A language for use in hybrid SET-CMOS logic circuit design. The model is based on the steady state Master-Equation (ME). The implementation of this original and simple model, taking into account physical characteristics of tunnel junctions and the thermionic emission, has faithfully reproduced the behavior of metallic SET operating at room temperature. The hybrid SET-CMOS universal logic gate cell is analyzed to illustrate the efficiency of this compact SET model.
{"title":"Single Electron Transistor analytical model for hybrid circuit design","authors":"M. Bounouar, F. Calmon, A. Beaumont, M. Guilmain, W. Xuan, S. Ecoffey, D. Drouin","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981330","url":null,"abstract":"A novel analytical and compact model of Single Electron Transistor (SET) is developed and implemented in Verilog-A language for use in hybrid SET-CMOS logic circuit design. The model is based on the steady state Master-Equation (ME). The implementation of this original and simple model, taking into account physical characteristics of tunnel junctions and the thermionic emission, has faithfully reproduced the behavior of metallic SET operating at room temperature. The hybrid SET-CMOS universal logic gate cell is analyzed to illustrate the efficiency of this compact SET model.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114992897","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981202
M. Melzi, A. Ouldali
The probability hypothesis density (PHD) is the first order statistical moment of the multiple target posterior density; the PHD recursion involves multiple integrals that generally have no closed form solutions. A SMC implementation of the PHD filter has been proposed to tackle the issue of joint estimating the number of targets and their states. However, because the state transition does not take into account the most recent observation, the particles drawn from prior transition may have very low likelihood and their contributions to the posterior estimation become negligible. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm named Unscented Kalman Particle PHD filter (UK-P-PHD). It consists of a P-PHD filter that uses an Unscented Kalman filter to generate the importance proposal distribution; the UKF allows the P-PHD filter to incorporate the latest observations into a prior updating routine and thus, generates proposal distributions that match the true posterior more closely. Simulation shows that the proposed filter outperforms the P-PHD filter.
{"title":"Joint multiple target tracking and classification using the Unscented Kalman Particle PHD filter","authors":"M. Melzi, A. Ouldali","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981202","url":null,"abstract":"The probability hypothesis density (PHD) is the first order statistical moment of the multiple target posterior density; the PHD recursion involves multiple integrals that generally have no closed form solutions. A SMC implementation of the PHD filter has been proposed to tackle the issue of joint estimating the number of targets and their states. However, because the state transition does not take into account the most recent observation, the particles drawn from prior transition may have very low likelihood and their contributions to the posterior estimation become negligible. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm named Unscented Kalman Particle PHD filter (UK-P-PHD). It consists of a P-PHD filter that uses an Unscented Kalman filter to generate the importance proposal distribution; the UKF allows the P-PHD filter to incorporate the latest observations into a prior updating routine and thus, generates proposal distributions that match the true posterior more closely. Simulation shows that the proposed filter outperforms the P-PHD filter.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124477513","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981262
R. Hamdi, A. Bounif, Alexandre Desmarais, D. Deslandes, F. Nabki
This paper presents a 0.13 μm CMOS impulse radio ultra-wideband receiver which supports the on-off keying modulation scheme. The receiver includes a wideband low-noise amplifier, and allows for control of the integration window to accommodate different number of pulses per symbol at bandwidths of up to 10.6 GHz. A power cycling scheme is implemented to reduce the power consumption, and allows the system to operate within stringent power requirements. The receiver was simulated at data rates of 10 Mbps with a maximum simulated power usage of 4.5 mW. Power cycling reduces the power consumption by a factor of 3.3.
{"title":"A low-power OOK ultra-wideband receiver with power cycling","authors":"R. Hamdi, A. Bounif, Alexandre Desmarais, D. Deslandes, F. Nabki","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981262","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 0.13 μm CMOS impulse radio ultra-wideband receiver which supports the on-off keying modulation scheme. The receiver includes a wideband low-noise amplifier, and allows for control of the integration window to accommodate different number of pulses per symbol at bandwidths of up to 10.6 GHz. A power cycling scheme is implemented to reduce the power consumption, and allows the system to operate within stringent power requirements. The receiver was simulated at data rates of 10 Mbps with a maximum simulated power usage of 4.5 mW. Power cycling reduces the power consumption by a factor of 3.3.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123506448","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981256
Yiqiao Lin, D. Liao, C. Hung, M. Ismail
A Phase-based Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) adopting a Delay-Locked-Loop (DLL) mechanism is presented. It is realized by a modification of a DLL using a Voltage-Controlled Delay Line (VCDL) based quantizer and a charge pump in the feedback path. The proposed architecture offers both reference jitter shaping and quantization noise shaping. Simulation results show that the proposed ΔΣ ADC achieved 7.99 bits resolution with OSR =32 for a 10 MHz signal bandwidth.
{"title":"A phase-based single-bit Delta-Sigma ADC architecture","authors":"Yiqiao Lin, D. Liao, C. Hung, M. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981256","url":null,"abstract":"A Phase-based Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) adopting a Delay-Locked-Loop (DLL) mechanism is presented. It is realized by a modification of a DLL using a Voltage-Controlled Delay Line (VCDL) based quantizer and a charge pump in the feedback path. The proposed architecture offers both reference jitter shaping and quantization noise shaping. Simulation results show that the proposed ΔΣ ADC achieved 7.99 bits resolution with OSR =32 for a 10 MHz signal bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123672495","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}
Pub Date : 2011-06-26DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981328
A. Beg, Valeriu Beiu, W. Ibrahim
Voltage reduction is a very widely used low-power technique (as reducing dynamic power quadratically, and leakage power linearly) which does sacrifice performance. An alternate technique, which is much less explored/investigated, is to rely on currents instead. The paper presents a thorough but still preliminary comparison of a recently introduced CMOS design technique which limits/reduces currents, with both the conventional/classical CMOS design, and also with a fresh sub-threshold CMOS design specifically aimed for ultra-low power (ULP). The preliminary results reported here suggest that the new design could achieve: (i) significantly lower power than classical CMOS (20–60×) without drastically degrading performances (5–20×); (ii) much better performances (100–200×) than the ULP scheme considered at power levels which are manageable (10–40x); while (iv) surpassing both of them on power-delay-product (PDP) and energy-delay-product (EDP). In particular, our inverters in 16nm are able to break the atto-Joule barrier at 300mV, and exhibit a delay of about 9ns.
{"title":"Atto Joule CMOS gates using reversed sizing and W/L swapping","authors":"A. Beg, Valeriu Beiu, W. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2011.5981328","url":null,"abstract":"Voltage reduction is a very widely used low-power technique (as reducing dynamic power quadratically, and leakage power linearly) which does sacrifice performance. An alternate technique, which is much less explored/investigated, is to rely on currents instead. The paper presents a thorough but still preliminary comparison of a recently introduced CMOS design technique which limits/reduces currents, with both the conventional/classical CMOS design, and also with a fresh sub-threshold CMOS design specifically aimed for ultra-low power (ULP). The preliminary results reported here suggest that the new design could achieve: (i) significantly lower power than classical CMOS (20–60×) without drastically degrading performances (5–20×); (ii) much better performances (100–200×) than the ULP scheme considered at power levels which are manageable (10–40x); while (iv) surpassing both of them on power-delay-product (PDP) and energy-delay-product (EDP). In particular, our inverters in 16nm are able to break the atto-Joule barrier at 300mV, and exhibit a delay of about 9ns.","PeriodicalId":271676,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 9th International New Circuits and systems conference","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122463732","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}