Pub Date : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310412
K. Doris, S. Stanzione, P. Ferguson
Mixed-signal/RF circuits are characterized by a wide variety of performance parameters and diverse functionality. Afigure of merit (FOM) provides a unique, simple and objective metric that allows normalizing and comparing circuits and systems of the same class. On the other hand, does the minimalistic simplicity of any single metric sacrifice more than it offers? Doesn't engineering practice intrinsically require designing and judging a far more complex reality than the monochromatic reductionism that an FOM can provide? For instance, in the case of analog-to-digital converters, the ability to drive the ADC's input, to clock it, to integrate it or interface it with other processing units, to supply power to it, are just a few real-life examples of factors that can make or break a converter architecture and the signal chain embedding it. These factors are not considered in any FOM, with potentially catastrophic consequences. Enough already with the cult of FOMs? Open the doors to a new age of purely human subjective calls? You, the audience, be the judge. This panel will probe the weaknesses and strengths of popular analog FOMs in an entertaining and educational way: To this end, the room will become a tribunal with the moderator as judge. For each FOM on trial, two panelists will officiate, one becoming the defending advocate of the FOM, and the other the prosecutor, while the audience will become the jury, that will decide which of the two contestants will win.
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Pub Date : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310413
P. Restle, K. Doris, V. De, P. Ferguson
Working on your first (or last) IC can be exciting, stressful, rewarding, and embarrassing. Whatever the lesson learned, be assured that it was experienced by pioneers before you. Failures (mistakes or just bad ideas!) can be valuable learning experiences, but are rarely revealed. Tonight, we provide an opportunity for recognized experts to share their past mistakes and failures, and disclose lessons learned. After the panelists have confessed, the audience can also contribute “learning experiences” (in less than a minute). Inevitably, this collection of revelations will be motivating: inspiring to the young and inexperienced; and virtuous for gurus in sharing a universal truth — first-time perfection is rare!
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Pub Date : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310391
S. Shiratake, E. Charbon, Leland Chang, M. Nagata
Speed and power are major concerns in today's memory designs, and they are becoming particularly important with the emergence of high-performance computing and deep-learning applications.
速度和功率是当今存储器设计的主要关注点，随着高性能计算和深度学习应用的出现，它们变得尤为重要。
{"title":"Session 30 overview: Emerging memories: Memory and technology directions subcommittees","authors":"S. Shiratake, E. Charbon, Leland Chang, M. Nagata","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310391","url":null,"abstract":"Speed and power are major concerns in today's memory designs, and they are becoming particularly important with the emergence of high-performance computing and deep-learning applications.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"476-477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73162176","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310220
Yuan Gao, Zhiliang Hong, A. Thomsen
Innovations in energy harvesting continue to enhance power-conversion efficiency, reduce circuit self-startup voltage, and system static-power consumption. Various new energy sources including a triboelectric nanogenerator and MEMS AlN-on-Si piezoelectric harvesters have been reported. New design methodologies for wireless-power and piezoelectric-vibration-energy harvesting are improving the state of the art.
{"title":"Session 8 overview: Wireless power and harvesting: Power management subcommittee","authors":"Yuan Gao, Zhiliang Hong, A. Thomsen","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310220","url":null,"abstract":"Innovations in energy harvesting continue to enhance power-conversion efficiency, reduce circuit self-startup voltage, and system static-power consumption. Various new energy sources including a triboelectric nanogenerator and MEMS AlN-on-Si piezoelectric harvesters have been reported. New design methodologies for wireless-power and piezoelectric-vibration-energy harvesting are improving the state of the art.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"134-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73755642","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310275
Jiayoon Ru, Jaehyouk Choi, P. Wambacq
This session presents the latest advances in digital and analog PLLs generating frequencies from 1 to 100GHz and covering diverse topics, such as ultra-low-power ADPLLs, FMCW synthesizers, fast-settling bang-bang PLLs, interference-coupling mitigation, type-I sampling PLLs, and mm-wave ADPLLs.
{"title":"Session 15 overview: RF PLLs: RF subcommittee","authors":"Jiayoon Ru, Jaehyouk Choi, P. Wambacq","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310275","url":null,"abstract":"This session presents the latest advances in digital and analog PLLs generating frequencies from 1 to 100GHz and covering diverse topics, such as ultra-low-power ADPLLs, FMCW synthesizers, fast-settling bang-bang PLLs, interference-coupling mitigation, type-I sampling PLLs, and mm-wave ADPLLs.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"244-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76566469","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310241
M. Kraft, M. Miyamoto, M. Ikeda
The session describes advances in sensor systems covering topics of sensors for inertial navigation, capacitive touch and stylus systems, ultrasound and bolometers. The first paper presents a frequency-modulated gyroscope using rate chopping to reject drift. The second paper describes a personal inertial navigation system for GPS-denied environments. The third paper presents a capacitive touch system with palm rejection functionality. The fourth paper presents a highly noise-immune stylus analog front-end that supports pen pressure for both passive electrically coupled resonance (ECR) and active styluses. The fifth paper demonstrates a pitch-matched front-end ASIC that realizes subarray beamforming and digitization for ultrasound imaging. The sixth paper demonstrates a 64-channel front-end ASIC for intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) catheters. The seventh paper presents a 2×2 transformer-based magnetic sensor array, which can detect magnetic nanoparticles with better than 0.3ppm accuracy. Finally, the eighth paper presents a low-cost 80×60-pixel thermal infrared imager featuring 100mK temperature resolution.
{"title":"Session 10 overview: Sensor systems: IMMD subcommittee","authors":"M. Kraft, M. Miyamoto, M. Ikeda","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310241","url":null,"abstract":"The session describes advances in sensor systems covering topics of sensors for inertial navigation, capacitive touch and stylus systems, ultrasound and bolometers. The first paper presents a frequency-modulated gyroscope using rate chopping to reject drift. The second paper describes a personal inertial navigation system for GPS-denied environments. The third paper presents a capacitive touch system with palm rejection functionality. The fourth paper presents a highly noise-immune stylus analog front-end that supports pen pressure for both passive electrically coupled resonance (ECR) and active styluses. The fifth paper demonstrates a pitch-matched front-end ASIC that realizes subarray beamforming and digitization for ultrasound imaging. The sixth paper demonstrates a 64-channel front-end ASIC for intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) catheters. The seventh paper presents a 2×2 transformer-based magnetic sensor array, which can detect magnetic nanoparticles with better than 0.3ppm accuracy. Finally, the eighth paper presents a low-cost 80×60-pixel thermal infrared imager featuring 100mK temperature resolution.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"176-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80374003","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310185
C. Heng, David J. McLaurin, S. Pellerano
Millimeter-wave beamforming and full-duplex techniques are increasingly important for 5G and next-generation radio systems. This session includes two papers describing architectures and techniques for 5G basestations, two massive MIMO papers with tileable phased-array chips scalable to hundreds of elements, an eight-element receiver supporting autonomous analog beam steering, a reconfigurable receiver for concurrent dual-band or multi-stream operation, and a full-duplex transceiver sharing a single selfinterference-cancelling antenna.
{"title":"Session 4 overview: mm-Wave radios for 5G and beyond: Wireless subcommittee","authors":"C. Heng, David J. McLaurin, S. Pellerano","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310185","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter-wave beamforming and full-duplex techniques are increasingly important for 5G and next-generation radio systems. This session includes two papers describing architectures and techniques for 5G basestations, two massive MIMO papers with tileable phased-array chips scalable to hundreds of elements, an eight-element receiver supporting autonomous analog beam steering, a reconfigurable receiver for concurrent dual-band or multi-stream operation, and a full-duplex transceiver sharing a single selfinterference-cancelling antenna.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"95 1","pages":"64-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73432093","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310343
Y. Ramadass, Gerard Villar Pique, A. Thomsen
GaN power devices have garnered significant attention for their reduced switching losses leading to small-form-factor high-frequency switching converters. However, issues related to reliable GaN gate drivers, level shifters with high common-mode immunity and zero-voltage switching detection remain. This session presents recent advances in gate drivers and ZVS detection schemes for GaNbased power converters.
{"title":"Session 24 overview: GaN drivers and converters: Power management subcommittee","authors":"Y. Ramadass, Gerard Villar Pique, A. Thomsen","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310343","url":null,"abstract":"GaN power devices have garnered significant attention for their reduced switching losses leading to small-form-factor high-frequency switching converters. However, issues related to reliable GaN gate drivers, level shifters with high common-mode immunity and zero-voltage switching detection remain. This session presents recent advances in gate drivers and ZVS detection schemes for GaNbased power converters.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"380-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91517707","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310352
G. Gramegna, Hua Wang, P. Wambacq
The increasing need to improve transmitter efficiency, enhance receiver linearity and robustness, and migrate electronic interfaces closer to the antenna continues to stimulate research in advanced RF techniques. The first paper in this session presents a broadband hybrid-coupler circulator for full-duplex operation. The following two papers demonstrate mm-wave antenna and power amplifier co-integration to increase efficiency and reduce cost. Next, we have three papers that advance power-amplifier architectures for 5G and NB-IoT applications. The three papers towards the end of this session demonstrate techniques for high-linearity receivers. A real-time, near-field THz imager concludes the session.
{"title":"Session 26 overview: RF techniques for communication and sensing: RF subcommittee","authors":"G. Gramegna, Hua Wang, P. Wambacq","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310352","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing need to improve transmitter efficiency, enhance receiver linearity and robustness, and migrate electronic interfaces closer to the antenna continues to stimulate research in advanced RF techniques. The first paper in this session presents a broadband hybrid-coupler circulator for full-duplex operation. The following two papers demonstrate mm-wave antenna and power amplifier co-integration to increase efficiency and reduce cost. Next, we have three papers that advance power-amplifier architectures for 5G and NB-IoT applications. The three papers towards the end of this session demonstrate techniques for high-linearity receivers. A real-time, near-field THz imager concludes the session.","PeriodicalId":6511,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"398-399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80356798","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 : 2018-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310302
D. Sylvester, K. Hirairi, E. Beigné
This session focuses on circuits that detect and adapt to various types of process-voltage-temperature-aging (PVTA) variations, along with the latest progress in digital low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulators. The presented adaptive circuits demonstrate rapid and accurate voltage-droop detection to perform instruction throttling, clock period stretching via use of a critical-path replica within the phase-locked loop (PLL) and (buck) voltage regulator, and closed-loop continuous-body-bias for temperature, process, and aging compensation. There are five digital LDO papers that introduce a range of new techniques, such as an analog-assisted NMOS power transistor, a beat-frequency-based adaptive-sampling scheme, and the replacement of traditional power-transistor devices with a switched-capacitor resistor. These papers also describe a distributed LDO array that improves IR drop and response time, as well as an LDO that is designed to minimize pass-through of voltage ripple from a preceding switching regulator.
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