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Due to process variations at the very low technology nodes, the manufactured chips are grouped into different speed bins. Currently, various types of maximum operation frequency (Fmax) tests are performed for efficient speed binning by applying complex functional or structural test patterns, which incurs high test cost. In this paper, a novel on-chip Binning Sensor is proposed which can monitor the...
Modular multiplication, addition, and subtraction being the core operation of Elliptic curve public(ECC) system, the decrease of area and the merging of structure have been a hot topic in recent years. This paper first analyzes the difference between multiplication type and addition type of modular multiplier. Then, Combined with the structural characteristics of the modular adder, and mixing modular...
This paper presents a partition level floorplan method for physical design of digital integrated circuit, which based on data flow analysis. It uses Cadence company P&R tool innovus to make floorplan, and takes a X86 CPU's south bridge design for example to introduce how to use this method to guide floorplan in detail. This method is more effective to improve the quality of floorplan for advanced...
A 25–28Gb/s full-rate reference-less CDR is presented and designed in a standard 0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS process, which can be applicable to nearly all classical 100G communication protocols by multi-channel configuration. It consists mainly of a full-rate phase frequency detector, a quadrature voltage control oscillator and two voltage to current convertors with loop filters. A dual-loop topology is adopted...
Power consumption is one of the key optimization objectives for modern integrated circuit designs. More than 40% of the total power consumption is contributed by clock trees due to their high frequency of switching and high capacitance. In the traditional physical design flow, placement is done before clock tree synthesis (CTS). CTS constructs a tree to connect the clock source with all the registers...
More than eighty different test environments need to be created and maintained for debugging the Marvell Ethernet PHY chip if the traditional industrial verification methodology is being used. This can easily incite very complicated debugging procedures and cause the problems and concerns of a multitude of engineering resources. The latest Marvell Ethernet PHY IC UVM verification platform integrating...
In order to compensate for the effects of supply voltage, process and temperature on the oscillator frequency, we design a ring oscillator with digital calibration. By comparing the frequency deviation between the ring oscillator and the external reference clock source, adjusting the state of the control word, and then changing the number of resistors in the analog circuit to adjust the output frequency...
In this paper a 12bit 10GSps current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in 280GHz fT 0.7um InP HBT technology is presented. The DAC core works in a double-sampling way, which reduces the maximum clock frequency by half. The double-sampling switch is separated to reduce the inter-symbol-interference. An improved current steer switch architecture is adopted to enhance high frequency dynamic...
An incremental delta-sigma modulator with a self-making capacitor having a high voltage operating ability for a 12-cell battery pack is proposed in this paper. The measured voltage range for each battery is from 0 to 5 V, and the maximum input voltage reaches to 60 V. The self-making capacitor adopting a metal over poly silicon with a relatively thin layer of oxide between the two plates is generated...
This paper presents a low-power adaptive edge decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for 10 giga-bits-per-second (Gbps) serial links with 4 PAM (pulse-amplitude-modulation) signaling. Optimal tap coefficients are obtained adaptively using a sign-sign least-mean-square (SS-LMS) algorithm that minimizes the jitter of equalized data. Low-voltage-differential-signaling (LVDS) tap generators that double DFE...
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