Session 1D: Univ. LSI Design Contest

1D-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:22)

Title A 1.2GHz Delayed Clock Generator for High-speed Microprocessors
Author *Inhwa Jung, Moo-Young Kim, Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Korea)
Abstract A 1.2GHz delayed clock generator capable of adjusting its clock phase according to input clock frequencies has been developed. It consists of a full-digital CMOS circuit that leads to a simple, robust, and portable IP. One-cycle lock time enables clock-on-demand circuit structures. The implemented delayed clock generator tile in 0.13um CMOS Tech. occupies only 0.004mm2 and operates at variable input frequencies ranging from 625MHz to 1.2GHz.
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1D-2 (Time: 10:22 - 10:29)

Title LVDS-Type On-Chip Transmision Line Interconnect with Passive Equalizers in 90 nm CMOS Process
Author *Akiko Mineyama, Hiroyuki Ito, Takahiro Ishii, Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Abstract This paper demonstrates a low voltage differential signaling (LVDS)-type on-chip transmission line (TL) interconnect with passive equalizers to solve delay issues on global interconnects. The proposed on-chip TL interconnect can achieve 10.5 Gbps signaling and has smaller delay, smaller delay variation and better power efficiency than conventional on-chip interconnects at high-frequencies.
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1D-3 (Time: 10:29 - 10:36)

Title A Slew-Rate Controlled Output Driver with One-Cycle Tuning Time
Author *Young-Ho Kwak, Inhwa Jung, Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Korea)
Abstract A low-power slew-rate controlled output driver with open loop digital scheme, one-cycle lock time is presented. Proposed output driver maintains slew rate in the range of 2.1V/ns to 3.6V/ns in a one cycle after the enable clock is inserted. It is implemented in 0.18um CMOS process, and the control block consumes 13.7mW at 1Gbps.
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1D-4 (Time: 10:36 - 10:43)

Title A Low-Leakage Current Power 180-nm CMOS SRAM
Author *Tadayoshi Enomoto, Yuki Higuchi (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Abstract A low leakage power, 180-nm 1K-b SRAM was fabricated. The stand-by leakage power of a 1K-bit memory cell array incorporating a newly developed leakage current reduction circuit called a “self-controllable voltage level (SVL)” circuit was only 3.7 nW, 5.4% of that of an equivalent conventional memory-cell array at VDD of 1.8 V. On the other hand, the speed remained almost constant with a minimal overhead in terms of the memory cell array area.
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1D-5 (Time: 10:43 - 10:50)

Title A CMOS Direct Sampling Mixer Using Switched Capacitor Filter Technique for Software-Defined Radio
Author *Hong Phuc Ninh, Takashi Moue, Takashi Kurashina, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Abstract This paper proposes a novel direct sampling mixer (DSM) using Switched Capacitor Filter (SCF) for multi-band receivers. The proposed DSM has a higher gain, more flexibility and lower flicker noise than that of conventional circuits. The mixer for Digital Terrestrial Television (ISDB-T) 1-segment was fabricated in a 0.18um CMOS process, and measured results are presented for a sampling frequency of 800MHz. The experimental results exhibit 430kHz signal bandwith with 27.3dB attenuation of adjacent interferer assuming at 3MHz offset.
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1D-6 (Time: 10:50 - 10:57)

Title Small-Area CMOS RF Distributed Mixer Using Multi-Port Inductors
Author *Susumu Sadoshima, Satoshi Fukuda, Tackya Yammouch, Hiroyuki Ito, Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Abstract This paper presents a novel small-area distributed mixer for ultrawide-band (UWB) receivers.The proposed mixer uses five 4-port inductors instead of fifteen 2-port inductors to shrink area of the circuit.The proposed mixer achieves conversion gain of -10dB, noise figure of 15dB, return loss of less than -10dB from 2.3 to 6.0GHz, IIP3 of 13.6dBm, and the circuit area of 0.51mm^2.
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1D-7 (Time: 10:57 - 11:04)

Title Dynamic Supply Noise Measurement Circuit Composed of Standard Cells Suitable for In-Site SoC Power Integrity Verification
Author *Yasuhiro Ogasahara, Masanori Hashimoto, Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Abstract This paper presents an all digital measurement circuit called ``gated oscillator'' for capturing waveforms of dynamic power supply noise. The gated oscillator is constructed with standard cells, and thus can be easily embedded in SoCs for design verification. The performance of the gated oscillator is verified with fabricated test chips in a 90nm process.
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1D-8 (Time: 11:04 - 11:11)

Title Duo-Binary Circular Turbo Decoder Based on Border Metric Encoding for WiMAX
Author *Ji-Hoon Kim, In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Korea)
Abstract This paper presents a duo-binary circular turbo decoder based on border metric encoding. With the proposed method, the memory size for branch memory is reduced by half and the dummy calculation is removed at the cost of the small-sized memory which holds the encoded border metrics. Based on the proposed SISO decoder and the dedicated hardware interleaver, a duo-binary circular turbo decoder is designed for the WiMAX standard using a 0.13 um CMOS process, which can support 24.26Mbps at 200MHz.
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1D-9 (Time: 11:11 - 11:18)

Title Area and Power Efficient Design of Coarse Time Synchronizer and Frequency Offset Estimator for Fixed WiMAX System
Author *Tae-Hwan Kim, In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Korea)
Abstract Targeting fixed WiMAX systems, this paper presents a new architecture for coarse time synchronization and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation. The proposed architecture is based on a two-step approach where the data-paths are decoupled to individually optimize performance and area. Implemented with 0.13um CMOS Tech., the results show that the proposed architecture has advantages of less silicon area and power consumption as well as better performance compared to the previous joint approach.
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1D-10 (Time: 11:18 - 11:25)

Title A Low-Cost Cryptographic Processor for Security Embedded System
Author *Ronghua Lu, Jun Han, Xiaoyang Zeng, Qing Li, Lang Mai, Jia Zhao (Fudan Univ., China)
Abstract A low-cost cryptographic processor for security embedded system is presented in this paper. The processor, without any assistance of dedicated cryptographic coprocessors, is scalable and very efficient for popular cryptographic functions such as RSA/ECC, AES, Hash, etc. Based on SMIC 0.18um standard CMOS Tech., the core circuit of the test chip has only about 32k gates, and a max frequency of 200MHz, under which the 1024-bit RSA algorithm takes only 150ms and the throughout of AES reaches 256Mbits/s.
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1D-11 (Time: 11:25 - 11:32)

Title Multithreaded Coprocessor Interface for Multi-Core Multimedia SoC
Author *Shih Hao Ou, Tay-Jyi Lin, Xiang Sheng Deng, Zhi Hong Zhuo, Chih Wei Liu (Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Abstract Modern architectures exploit task level parallelism to improve their performance in a cost-effective manner. However, task synchronization and management is time consuming and wastes computing resources especially on application-specific architectures, such as DSP. In this paper, we propose a smart coprocessor interface that helps to offload the task management job from MPU or DSP. In our simulations, our approach can improve the overall performance of a dual-core platform by 57%. The hardware overhead of the interface is only 1.56% of the DSP core.
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1D-12 (Time: 11:32 - 11:39)

Title Parameterized Embedded In-circuit Emulator and Its Retargetable Debugging Software for Microprocessor/Microcontroller/DSP Processor
Author *Liang-Bi Chen, Yung-Chih Liu, Chien-Hung Chen, Chung-Fu Kao, Ing-Jer Huang (Nat’l Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan)
Abstract The in-circuit emulator (ICE) is commonly adopted as a microprocessor debugging technique. In this paper, a parameterized embedded in-circuit emulator and its retargetable debugging software are proposed. The parameterized embedded in-circuit emulator can be integrated into different style processors such as microcontroller, microprocessor, and DSP processor. The GUI interface Debugging software can help user to debug easily. As a result of it, the duration of microprocessor debugging design procedure time is reduced.
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