For high power universal serial bus (USB) devices, the dynamic bootstrap voltage (DBV) technique is proposed to keep high efficiency over a wide load range, including light and heavy loads. Besides, the silicon area of power management of the system-on-a-chip (Soc) can be effectively reduced to 50% of conventional design with P-type high-side power MOSFET. The test chip fabricated in 0.25μm CMOS process shows 92% peak efficiency from 1mA to 1A. The maximum driving current is higher than 3A with 88 % efficiency. Compared to that without the DBV technique, the efficiency is improved about 28%.
{"title":"Dynamic bootstrap voltage technique for high efficiency buck converter in universal serial bus power device supplying system","authors":"Wei-Chung Chen, Ke-Horng Chen, Chinder Wey, Ying-Hsi Lin, Tsung-Yen Tsai, Chen-Chih Huang, Chao-Cheng Lee","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691008","url":null,"abstract":"For high power universal serial bus (USB) devices, the dynamic bootstrap voltage (DBV) technique is proposed to keep high efficiency over a wide load range, including light and heavy loads. Besides, the silicon area of power management of the system-on-a-chip (Soc) can be effectively reduced to 50% of conventional design with P-type high-side power MOSFET. The test chip fabricated in 0.25μm CMOS process shows 92% peak efficiency from 1mA to 1A. The maximum driving current is higher than 3A with 88 % efficiency. Compared to that without the DBV technique, the efficiency is improved about 28%.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129466980","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690999
Jun Zhou, Xin Liu, Yat-Hei Lam, Chao Wang, Kah-Hyong Chang, Jingjing Lan, M. Je
A new in-situ timing-error prediction and prevention technique named HEPP is proposed for mitigating the impact of PVT variations on ultra-low-voltage digital designs. Compared to the prior techniques including Razor and Canary flip-flop, the proposed technique eliminates the hold-time constraint and is able to deal with errors caused by infrequently activated critical paths and fast dynamic variations. It has low overhead and is applicable to general digital designs. The experimental results of applying the proposed HEPP technique to a FFT processor show 122% performance improvement or 88% energy reduction compared to the conventional worst-case design.
{"title":"HEPP: A new in-situ timing-error prediction and prevention technique for variation-tolerant ultra-low-voltage designs","authors":"Jun Zhou, Xin Liu, Yat-Hei Lam, Chao Wang, Kah-Hyong Chang, Jingjing Lan, M. Je","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690999","url":null,"abstract":"A new in-situ timing-error prediction and prevention technique named HEPP is proposed for mitigating the impact of PVT variations on ultra-low-voltage digital designs. Compared to the prior techniques including Razor and Canary flip-flop, the proposed technique eliminates the hold-time constraint and is able to deal with errors caused by infrequently activated critical paths and fast dynamic variations. It has low overhead and is applicable to general digital designs. The experimental results of applying the proposed HEPP technique to a FFT processor show 122% performance improvement or 88% energy reduction compared to the conventional worst-case design.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117224211","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691079
Wootaek Lim, Joonseok Yang, Myeong-Jae Park, Min-Woo Won, Jaeha Kim
This paper presents a ultra-low-power oscillator and pulse-width modulator circuits for a boost-converter-based energy harvester that is capable of collecting net energy even when the input power is less than 2μW. While the previously published leakage-based relaxation oscillators demonstrated 0.42μW at 3.2-MHz, their voltage swings were limited to 0.45V to prevent crowbar currents in the crossing detector stages. New crossing detector circuits that limit the crowbar current to a sub-threshold leakage level enables both the ultra-low-power oscillator and pulse-width modulator even when they are operating at a 5V supply. Fabricated in a 0.25μm CMOS, the prototype oscillator dissipates only 10nW~50μW while generating a 10-Hz to 20-MHz clock at 5V swing. The energy harvester switching at 33-kHz keeps the efficiency above 59% even when the input power level from photovoltaic cells drops to 2μW.
{"title":"A 5V, 33-kHz, OJ-μW pulse generation circuit for ultra-low-power boost charging energy harvesters","authors":"Wootaek Lim, Joonseok Yang, Myeong-Jae Park, Min-Woo Won, Jaeha Kim","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691079","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a ultra-low-power oscillator and pulse-width modulator circuits for a boost-converter-based energy harvester that is capable of collecting net energy even when the input power is less than 2μW. While the previously published leakage-based relaxation oscillators demonstrated 0.42μW at 3.2-MHz, their voltage swings were limited to 0.45V to prevent crowbar currents in the crossing detector stages. New crossing detector circuits that limit the crowbar current to a sub-threshold leakage level enables both the ultra-low-power oscillator and pulse-width modulator even when they are operating at a 5V supply. Fabricated in a 0.25μm CMOS, the prototype oscillator dissipates only 10nW~50μW while generating a 10-Hz to 20-MHz clock at 5V swing. The energy harvester switching at 33-kHz keeps the efficiency above 59% even when the input power level from photovoltaic cells drops to 2μW.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125711569","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691018
Yun Yin, B. Chi, Qian Yu, Bingqiao Liu, Zhihua Wang
A 0.1-5GHz Software-Defined Radio (SDR) transmitter in 65nm CMOS is presented. The transmitter integrates a dual-mode power amplifier (PA) for 0.1-1.5GHz low-cost narrowband applications (such as Industry Specific Applications, 2G, ZigBee), while a three-sub-band pre-power amplifier (PPA) is used for 0.45-5GHz high performance wideband applications (3G, 4G and etc.). A digital-assisted I/Q imbalance calibration circuit is proposed ahead the TX chain to pre-compensate I/Q mismatch in IF and LO modules. Analog baseband utilizes power scalable technique to optimize power consumption among different modes. The transmitter achieves -63.9dBc image rejection ratio (IRR) and -56.9dBc LO leakage rejection. In narrowband modes, the dual-mode PA provides >19dBm output P1dB with >20% PAE in its linear mode, and 23.2dBm maximum saturation power with 60% peak PAE in the switching mode. In wideband modes, the PPA provides maximum 9dBm output P1dB. F urthermore, system verifications demonstrate 0.5% EVM for 905MHz GSM at 19.5dBm output power. And the transmitter achieves -42.6dBc ACLR and 1.4% EVM for 2.3GHz LTE20 at 6.2dBm output.
{"title":"A 0.1–5GHz SDR transmitter with dual-mode power amplifier and digital-assisted I/Q imbalance calibration in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Yun Yin, B. Chi, Qian Yu, Bingqiao Liu, Zhihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691018","url":null,"abstract":"A 0.1-5GHz Software-Defined Radio (SDR) transmitter in 65nm CMOS is presented. The transmitter integrates a dual-mode power amplifier (PA) for 0.1-1.5GHz low-cost narrowband applications (such as Industry Specific Applications, 2G, ZigBee), while a three-sub-band pre-power amplifier (PPA) is used for 0.45-5GHz high performance wideband applications (3G, 4G and etc.). A digital-assisted I/Q imbalance calibration circuit is proposed ahead the TX chain to pre-compensate I/Q mismatch in IF and LO modules. Analog baseband utilizes power scalable technique to optimize power consumption among different modes. The transmitter achieves -63.9dBc image rejection ratio (IRR) and -56.9dBc LO leakage rejection. In narrowband modes, the dual-mode PA provides >19dBm output P1dB with >20% PAE in its linear mode, and 23.2dBm maximum saturation power with 60% peak PAE in the switching mode. In wideband modes, the PPA provides maximum 9dBm output P1dB. F urthermore, system verifications demonstrate 0.5% EVM for 905MHz GSM at 19.5dBm output power. And the transmitter achieves -42.6dBc ACLR and 1.4% EVM for 2.3GHz LTE20 at 6.2dBm output.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125956324","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691060
Rakesh Kumar Palani, M. Sturm, R. Harjani
A novel inverter-based-integrator filter design is proposed that relaxes the UGB requirement of the OTAs by decoupling the integration capacitance from the feedback loop. The proposed scheme allows the entire filtering operation to take place in the current domain reducing power supply limitations. Further, in the design the load acts as the compensation capacitance to the OTAs allowing the majority of the current to flow into the load, increasing the overall power efficiency. As a proof of concept, a 3rd order lowpass filter is designed and implemented in an IBM 65nm CMOS process. The measured prototype designed for a 50MHz bandwidth achieves an IIP3 of +33dBm and 1.8X better FOM over state-of-art while drawing 1.3mA from a 1.2V supply, is capable of driving a lpF load, and occupies 6X smaller area.
{"title":"A 1.56mW 50MHz 3rd-order filter with current-mode active-RC biquad and 33dBm IIP3 in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Rakesh Kumar Palani, M. Sturm, R. Harjani","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691060","url":null,"abstract":"A novel inverter-based-integrator filter design is proposed that relaxes the UGB requirement of the OTAs by decoupling the integration capacitance from the feedback loop. The proposed scheme allows the entire filtering operation to take place in the current domain reducing power supply limitations. Further, in the design the load acts as the compensation capacitance to the OTAs allowing the majority of the current to flow into the load, increasing the overall power efficiency. As a proof of concept, a 3rd order lowpass filter is designed and implemented in an IBM 65nm CMOS process. The measured prototype designed for a 50MHz bandwidth achieves an IIP3 of +33dBm and 1.8X better FOM over state-of-art while drawing 1.3mA from a 1.2V supply, is capable of driving a lpF load, and occupies 6X smaller area.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128035972","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691012
A. R. Abolfazli, Y. Shayan, G. Cowan
Circuit and IC implementation of a (120, 75) Min-Sum based Turbo-Structured LDPC analog decoder in CMOS 90nm technology is presented. This is the highest throughput and one of the longest codes implemented to date using analog techniques. At a Bit Error Rate of 10-5, the measured performance is within 0.2dB of modeled performance using floating-point arithmetic. The chip was tested at a throughput of 750Mb/s. This improves the throughput of analog decoders by a factor of 57. The power dissipation of the core is 13 mW resulting in 17pJ/b energy efficiency. The core area is 1.38mm2. The fabricated MS-based TS-LDPC analog decoder has BER performance nearly identical to theory without compromising energy efficiency.
{"title":"750Mb/s 17pJ/b 90nm CMOS (120,75) TS-LDPC Min-Sum based analog decoder","authors":"A. R. Abolfazli, Y. Shayan, G. Cowan","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691012","url":null,"abstract":"Circuit and IC implementation of a (120, 75) Min-Sum based Turbo-Structured LDPC analog decoder in CMOS 90nm technology is presented. This is the highest throughput and one of the longest codes implemented to date using analog techniques. At a Bit Error Rate of 10-5, the measured performance is within 0.2dB of modeled performance using floating-point arithmetic. The chip was tested at a throughput of 750Mb/s. This improves the throughput of analog decoders by a factor of 57. The power dissipation of the core is 13 mW resulting in 17pJ/b energy efficiency. The core area is 1.38mm2. The fabricated MS-based TS-LDPC analog decoder has BER performance nearly identical to theory without compromising energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134201234","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690974
P. Whatmough, Shidhartha Das, David M. Bull
Datapath accelerators are a key performance enabler for many digital signal processing systems. Razor provides a means to improve the performance and power efficiency of DSP accelerators by minimizing static guardbands. Unlike with Razor CPU implementations, recovery can be achieved without the complexity and intrusiveness of checkpoint and replay schemes. We demonstrate two recovery approaches, (1) a circuit-level technique that makes use of a small time borrowing window to efficiently correct marginal timing errors, and (2) an approximate error correction scheme to minimize error magnitude of large timing errors using an interpolation-based approach. Both techniques are demonstrated in a 65nm CMOS testchip. Measurement results show a 37% improvement in energy efficiency at 1GS/s using Razor, compared to a margined baseline on the same silicon. The proposed error detection and correction system is shown to maintain a 10% margin to account for fast-moving supply voltage noise.
{"title":"Hybrid circuit and algorithmic timing error correction for low-power robust DSP accelerators","authors":"P. Whatmough, Shidhartha Das, David M. Bull","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690974","url":null,"abstract":"Datapath accelerators are a key performance enabler for many digital signal processing systems. Razor provides a means to improve the performance and power efficiency of DSP accelerators by minimizing static guardbands. Unlike with Razor CPU implementations, recovery can be achieved without the complexity and intrusiveness of checkpoint and replay schemes. We demonstrate two recovery approaches, (1) a circuit-level technique that makes use of a small time borrowing window to efficiently correct marginal timing errors, and (2) an approximate error correction scheme to minimize error magnitude of large timing errors using an interpolation-based approach. Both techniques are demonstrated in a 65nm CMOS testchip. Measurement results show a 37% improvement in energy efficiency at 1GS/s using Razor, compared to a margined baseline on the same silicon. The proposed error detection and correction system is shown to maintain a 10% margin to account for fast-moving supply voltage noise.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131161110","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690973
K. Kushida, F. Tachibana, O. Hirabayashi, Y. Takeyama, M. Shizuno, A. Kawasumi, A. Suzuki, Y. Niki, S. Sasaki, T. Yabe, Y. Unekawa
This paper presents SRAM circuit techniques to reduce both active and standby mode power especially at room temperature (RT) where actual power consumption is dominant. A bit line power calculator is used to adaptively set the cell supply voltage (VCS) in the active mode. A digitally controllable retention circuit regulates VCS in the standby mode with small control power. These circuits are implemented in a dual-power-supply SRAM in 28 nm CMOS technology. Compared with the conventional scheme, the power consumption in the active and standby mode at 25°C is reduced by 27% and 85%, respectively.
{"title":"A 27% active and 85% standby power reduction in dual-power-supply SRAM using BL power calculator and digitally controllable retention circuit","authors":"K. Kushida, F. Tachibana, O. Hirabayashi, Y. Takeyama, M. Shizuno, A. Kawasumi, A. Suzuki, Y. Niki, S. Sasaki, T. Yabe, Y. Unekawa","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6690973","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents SRAM circuit techniques to reduce both active and standby mode power especially at room temperature (RT) where actual power consumption is dominant. A bit line power calculator is used to adaptively set the cell supply voltage (VCS) in the active mode. A digitally controllable retention circuit regulates VCS in the standby mode with small control power. These circuits are implemented in a dual-power-supply SRAM in 28 nm CMOS technology. Compared with the conventional scheme, the power consumption in the active and standby mode at 25°C is reduced by 27% and 85%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125113455","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691070
Lixue Kuang, B. Chi, Lei Chen, Meng Wei, Xiaobao Yu, Zhihua Wang
An integrated 60GHz 5Gb/s QPSK transmitter with on-chip T/R switch and fully-differential PLL frequency synthesizer in 65nm CMOS is presented. Direct QPSK modulation is implemented during the first up-conversion, followed by the final up-conversion mixer and power amplifier (PA) as well as on-chip T/R switch. Distributed amplifier technique is utilized to extend the bandwidth of PA. Along with other bandwidth extension techniques, in-band gain variation in signal link is minimized to improve the error vector magnitude (EVM). To reject common-mode noise and improve phase noise performance, a 40GHz fully-differential PLL frequency synthesizer is implemented to provide LO signals and various clocks. The measured output power is 6.4dBm at 60GHz, with 1.2dB gain variation over >6GHz bandwidth. On-chip 27-1 PRBS generators are used to measure the transmitter performance, and the measured EVM is -21.9dB with 5Gb/s QPSK modulation. The transmitter and the PLL & LO distribution network consume 73mW and 62mW, respectively.
{"title":"An integrated 60GHz 5Gb/s QPSK transmitter with on-chip T/R switch and fully-differential PLL frequency synthesizer in 65nm CMOS","authors":"Lixue Kuang, B. Chi, Lei Chen, Meng Wei, Xiaobao Yu, Zhihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691070","url":null,"abstract":"An integrated 60GHz 5Gb/s QPSK transmitter with on-chip T/R switch and fully-differential PLL frequency synthesizer in 65nm CMOS is presented. Direct QPSK modulation is implemented during the first up-conversion, followed by the final up-conversion mixer and power amplifier (PA) as well as on-chip T/R switch. Distributed amplifier technique is utilized to extend the bandwidth of PA. Along with other bandwidth extension techniques, in-band gain variation in signal link is minimized to improve the error vector magnitude (EVM). To reject common-mode noise and improve phase noise performance, a 40GHz fully-differential PLL frequency synthesizer is implemented to provide LO signals and various clocks. The measured output power is 6.4dBm at 60GHz, with 1.2dB gain variation over >6GHz bandwidth. On-chip 27-1 PRBS generators are used to measure the transmitter performance, and the measured EVM is -21.9dB with 5Gb/s QPSK modulation. The transmitter and the PLL & LO distribution network consume 73mW and 62mW, respectively.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116153301","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 : 2013-12-23DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691056
Jun-Eun Park, Dong-Hyuk Lim, D. Jeong
This paper presents a capacitive touch screen panel (TSP) readout IC that provides highly enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and scalable frame rate. To increase touch sensitivity and noise immunity, the proposed readout IC employs a differential sensing method. A column-parallel incremental sigma-delta (Σ-Δ) ADC structure is adopted to obtain high frame rate and its scalability. The readout IC is fabricated in 0.18-μm CMOS process and its active area is 2.2 mm2. The measured results show that the readout IC achieves 60-dB SNR and 200-Hz frame rate with 12 × 8 mutual capacitive TSP. The frame rate and SNR can be adjusted from 50 Hz to 1.6 kHz and from 50 dB to 67 dB, respectively. The power consumption is 6.3 mW with 3.3-V supply.
{"title":"A 6.3 mW high-SNR frame-rate scalable touch screen panel readout IC with column-parallel Σ-Δ ADC structure for mobile devices","authors":"Jun-Eun Park, Dong-Hyuk Lim, D. Jeong","doi":"10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691056","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a capacitive touch screen panel (TSP) readout IC that provides highly enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and scalable frame rate. To increase touch sensitivity and noise immunity, the proposed readout IC employs a differential sensing method. A column-parallel incremental sigma-delta (Σ-Δ) ADC structure is adopted to obtain high frame rate and its scalability. The readout IC is fabricated in 0.18-μm CMOS process and its active area is 2.2 mm2. The measured results show that the readout IC achieves 60-dB SNR and 200-Hz frame rate with 12 × 8 mutual capacitive TSP. The frame rate and SNR can be adjusted from 50 Hz to 1.6 kHz and from 50 dB to 67 dB, respectively. The power consumption is 6.3 mW with 3.3-V supply.","PeriodicalId":296544,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124871261","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}