Pub Date : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398051
Younsun Kim, Hong-Sik Kim, R. Lee, Sungho Kang
This paper describes a FPGA-based verification methodology for the image signal processor (ISP) of system-on-chip (SoC) type CMOS image sensor. To make a verification environment, the complete ASIC prototyping system, the ARM7 TDMI CoreTile board and external interface boards — the sensor board, the USB board and the switch board — are used. As a verification method, 4-step verification strategy comprised of ARM-core based platform verification, system verification, algorithm verification and performance verification is used. Through this method, the 2M-pixel/3M-pixel ARM-based ISP of CMOS image sensor is verified very effectively before tape-out.
{"title":"FPGA-based verification methodology of SoC-type CMOS image signal processor","authors":"Younsun Kim, Hong-Sik Kim, R. Lee, Sungho Kang","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398051","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a FPGA-based verification methodology for the image signal processor (ISP) of system-on-chip (SoC) type CMOS image sensor. To make a verification environment, the complete ASIC prototyping system, the ARM7 TDMI CoreTile board and external interface boards — the sensor board, the USB board and the switch board — are used. As a verification method, 4-step verification strategy comprised of ARM-core based platform verification, system verification, algorithm verification and performance verification is used. Through this method, the 2M-pixel/3M-pixel ARM-based ISP of CMOS image sensor is verified very effectively before tape-out.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122594002","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397994
K. Einwich, C. Grimm, M. Barnasconi, A. Vachoux
Embedded HW/SW systems interact more and more tightly with their analog physical environment. This leads to systems in which digital HW/SW is functionally interwoven with analog and mixed -signal blocks such as RF interfaces, power electronics, or sensors and actuators. We call such systems Embedded Analog/Mixed-Signal (E-AMS) systems. A challenge for the development of E -AMS systems is to understand the interaction between HW/SW and the analog and mixed-signal subsystems (e.g. power drivers, sensors, RF circuits) at architecture level. This requires means for modeling and simulating the interacting analog/mixed-signal systems and HW/SW systems at functional and architecture level. SystemC supports modeling of HW/SW systems from the abstract algorithm levevel down to RTL by providing a discrete event (DE) simulation framework. Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) allows designers to perform abstract modeling, simulation and design of HW/SW system architectures. However, the SystemC simulation kernel has not been designed for the modeling and simulation of analog, continuous-time systems.
{"title":"Introduction to the SystemC AMS DRAFT standard","authors":"K. Einwich, C. Grimm, M. Barnasconi, A. Vachoux","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397994","url":null,"abstract":"Embedded HW/SW systems interact more and more tightly with their analog physical environment. This leads to systems in which digital HW/SW is functionally interwoven with analog and mixed -signal blocks such as RF interfaces, power electronics, or sensors and actuators. We call such systems Embedded Analog/Mixed-Signal (E-AMS) systems. A challenge for the development of E -AMS systems is to understand the interaction between HW/SW and the analog and mixed-signal subsystems (e.g. power drivers, sensors, RF circuits) at architecture level. This requires means for modeling and simulating the interacting analog/mixed-signal systems and HW/SW systems at functional and architecture level. SystemC supports modeling of HW/SW systems from the abstract algorithm levevel down to RTL by providing a discrete event (DE) simulation framework. Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) allows designers to perform abstract modeling, simulation and design of HW/SW system architectures. However, the SystemC simulation kernel has not been designed for the modeling and simulation of analog, continuous-time systems.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122877290","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398075
T. Koivisto, E. Tiiliharju
In this paper, we propose a current bleeding oscillator-mixer. This circuit reuses the bleeding current, which relaxes mixer design trade-offs noise, linearity and gain at low supply voltages, by replacing the bleed current source as an oscillator. The linearized merged oscillator-mixer achieves a 8 dB gain, −3 dBV IIP3 and 6.2 dB white noise figure at the 7 GHz frequency. The phase-noise of the oscillator is −98 dBc/Hz at the 1 MHz offset from the 7Ghz LO frequency. The combined circuit consumes 5 mA from a 1.2 V supply.
{"title":"A linearized low-voltage oscillator-mixer","authors":"T. Koivisto, E. Tiiliharju","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398075","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a current bleeding oscillator-mixer. This circuit reuses the bleeding current, which relaxes mixer design trade-offs noise, linearity and gain at low supply voltages, by replacing the bleed current source as an oscillator. The linearized merged oscillator-mixer achieves a 8 dB gain, −3 dBV IIP3 and 6.2 dB white noise figure at the 7 GHz frequency. The phase-noise of the oscillator is −98 dBc/Hz at the 1 MHz offset from the 7Ghz LO frequency. The combined circuit consumes 5 mA from a 1.2 V supply.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133715539","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398059
Marc Molina, X. Aragonès, J. González
Experimental measurements of the isolation provided by N and P-type rings, and triple-well structures implemented in 0.35 μm and 0.18 μm technologies are presented. The results obtained are compared to previous experimental works on isolation, and the conditions that affect the efficacy of the isolation techniques are discussed, as well as their dependence with frequency.
{"title":"Experimental analysis of substrate isolation techniques for RF-SOC integration","authors":"Marc Molina, X. Aragonès, J. González","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398059","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental measurements of the isolation provided by N and P-type rings, and triple-well structures implemented in 0.35 μm and 0.18 μm technologies are presented. The results obtained are compared to previous experimental works on isolation, and the conditions that affect the efficacy of the isolation techniques are discussed, as well as their dependence with frequency.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114184334","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398010
M. Tranchero, L. Reyneri
Multi-clock systems are quite used in nowadays designs. What this paper propose is a way to convert Simulink models into system based on different synchronization assumptions, i.e., synchronous and asynchronous, and to provide a way to allow communications between these two domains.
{"title":"Generating interacting synchronous and asynchronous designs from simulink descriptions","authors":"M. Tranchero, L. Reyneri","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398010","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-clock systems are quite used in nowadays designs. What this paper propose is a way to convert Simulink models into system based on different synchronization assumptions, i.e., synchronous and asynchronous, and to provide a way to allow communications between these two domains.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114551139","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398062
P. Srinivasan, A. Marshall
Component noise is becoming more of an issue as device sizes reduce. Using a 45nm CMOS process we evaluate a method to correlate noise in operational amplifiers with transistor noise at low-frequencies. This reduces test time, and provides an alternative method to characterize and model 1/f noise of individual devices.
{"title":"Correlating op-amp circuit noise with device flicker (1/f) noise for analog design applications","authors":"P. Srinivasan, A. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398062","url":null,"abstract":"Component noise is becoming more of an issue as device sizes reduce. Using a 45nm CMOS process we evaluate a method to correlate noise in operational amplifiers with transistor noise at low-frequencies. This reduces test time, and provides an alternative method to characterize and model 1/f noise of individual devices.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114083195","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398014
Liang Lu, Máire O’Neill, E. Swartzlander
The ECHO hash function was developed for the NIST cryptographic SHA-3 hash function competition. To evaluate ECHO's performance, high-speed and low-cost ASIC architectures have been designed. The results show that the highperformance architecture can achieve a fastest throughput among AES-based hash function design reported to date among the SHA-3 candidates.
{"title":"ASIC evaluation of ECHO hash function","authors":"Liang Lu, Máire O’Neill, E. Swartzlander","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398014","url":null,"abstract":"The ECHO hash function was developed for the NIST cryptographic SHA-3 hash function competition. To evaluate ECHO's performance, high-speed and low-cost ASIC architectures have been designed. The results show that the highperformance architecture can achieve a fastest throughput among AES-based hash function design reported to date among the SHA-3 candidates.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114880685","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398034
Y. Berg, O. Mirmotahari
In this paper we present a low voltage symmetric and bidirectional current mirror based on clocked semi-floating-gate (CSFG) transistors used in low-voltage digital CMOS circuits [1]. By imposing offsets to semi-floating-gate nodes the current level may be increased while maintaining a very low supply voltage. The offset voltages are used to shift the effective threshold voltage of the evaluating transistors. The proposed current mirror can operate at supply voltages below 200mV. The simulated data presented are obtained using the Spectre simulator provided by Cadence and valid for a 90nm CMOS process.
{"title":"Clocked semi-floating-gate ultra low-voltage symmetric and bidirectional current mirror","authors":"Y. Berg, O. Mirmotahari","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398034","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a low voltage symmetric and bidirectional current mirror based on clocked semi-floating-gate (CSFG) transistors used in low-voltage digital CMOS circuits [1]. By imposing offsets to semi-floating-gate nodes the current level may be increased while maintaining a very low supply voltage. The offset voltages are used to shift the effective threshold voltage of the evaluating transistors. The proposed current mirror can operate at supply voltages below 200mV. The simulated data presented are obtained using the Spectre simulator provided by Cadence and valid for a 90nm CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116863802","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397995
L. Devlin
Broadband ICs find application in defence, instrumentation and communication applications. This paper details the design, realisation and measured performance of five different MMICs developed for broadband receiver applications. The five MMICs described are: A 0.5 to 20GHz dual channel limiter, a 2 to 18GHz dual channel Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a DC to 20GHz dual channel Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) switch, a 2 to 18GHz upconverter and a companion downconverter. Photographs of the ICs are shown in. The MMICs can be used to implement a compact, dual channel 2–18GHz receiver and an example of this is also described.
{"title":"Microwave IC design for broadband receivers","authors":"L. Devlin","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5397995","url":null,"abstract":"Broadband ICs find application in defence, instrumentation and communication applications. This paper details the design, realisation and measured performance of five different MMICs developed for broadband receiver applications. The five MMICs described are: A 0.5 to 20GHz dual channel limiter, a 2 to 18GHz dual channel Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a DC to 20GHz dual channel Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) switch, a 2 to 18GHz upconverter and a companion downconverter. Photographs of the ICs are shown in. The MMICs can be used to implement a compact, dual channel 2–18GHz receiver and an example of this is also described.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116243015","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 : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398041
S. F. Fard, A. Alimohammad, B. Cockburn, C. Schlegel
In this paper, we present a single-chip design for the accelerated verification of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Our design integrates the data source, MIMO transmitter, multipath fading channel, MIMO receiver, data sink and error performance measurement on a single chip for prototyping and verification at hardware speeds. The implemented baseband fading channel simulator can be reconfigured interactively to simulate a fading channel using different channel models. The size and performance of our design is illustrated by hardware implementation. Our design methodology can be used to speed up design verification of a wide variety of wireless communication systems.
{"title":"A versatile fading simulator for on-chip verification of MIMO communication systems","authors":"S. F. Fard, A. Alimohammad, B. Cockburn, C. Schlegel","doi":"10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398041","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a single-chip design for the accelerated verification of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Our design integrates the data source, MIMO transmitter, multipath fading channel, MIMO receiver, data sink and error performance measurement on a single chip for prototyping and verification at hardware speeds. The implemented baseband fading channel simulator can be reconfigured interactively to simulate a fading channel using different channel models. The size and performance of our design is illustrated by hardware implementation. Our design methodology can be used to speed up design verification of a wide variety of wireless communication systems.","PeriodicalId":303505,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123529037","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}