ISSCC 2017
Session 19
Clocking & PLLs
A 50-to-66GHz 65nm CMOS All-Digital Fractional-N PLL with 220fsrms Jitter
Digital-PLL frequency synthesizers for wireless applications have become popular in the sub-10GHz range. However, mm-wave synthesizers still rely on analog PLLs, predominantly of the integer-N type [1]. This is due to li
ISSCC 2017
Session 19
Clocking & PLLs
A PVT-Robust -39dBc 1kHz-to-100MHz IntegratedPhase-Noise 29GHz Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplier with a 600μW Frequency-Tracking Loop Using the Averages of Phase Deviations for mm-Band 5G Transceivers
have an ultra-wide bandwidth in a mm-wave band. A big challenge of a 5G transceiver is to generate ultra-low-PN (phase noise) local-oscillator (LO) signals to suppress integrated PN (IPN) over such an extremely wide band
ISSCC 2017
Session 19
Clocking & PLLs
A Fundamental-Frequency 114GHz Circular-Polarized
viable choice for imaging/sensing applications by offering faster scan time and robust source-detector alignment compared to linear radiation [1]. Power-efficient generation of a low-noise, highpower mm-wave/THz circular
ISSCC 2017
Session 18
Wireless
A Single-Port Duplex RF Front-End for X-Band SingleAntenna FMCW Radar in 65nm CMOS
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars can provide high resolution and superior sensitivity for wireless sensing [1-3]. Radar signals, whose frequency increases or decreases linearly with time, are transmitted
ISSCC 2017
Session 18
Wireless
Highly-Linear Integrated Magnetic-Free CirculatorReceiver for Full-Duplex Wireless
implementation of low-cost, small-form-factor, integrated shared-antenna (ANT) interfaces with low loss, low noise, high TX-RX isolation, and large TX power handling. Providing more TX-RX isolation in the ANT interface t
ISSCC 2017
Session 18
Wireless
A 1.7-to-2.2GHz Full-Duplex Transceiver System with >50dB Self-Interference Cancellation over 42MHz Bandwidth
Full-duplex (FD) radio communication potentially doubles the spectral efficiency in the densely occupied RF spectrum (100MHz to 5GHz). However, significant challenges remain, particularly the presence of a strong transmi
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Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 105Gb/s 300GHz CMOS Transmitter
Ruibing Dong2, Akifumi Kasamatsu2, Iwao Hosako2, Koichi Mizuno3, Kazuaki Takahashi3, Takeshi Yoshida1, Minoru Fujishima1 Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan National Institute of Information and Communications
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Compact 130GHz Fully Packaged Point-to-Point Wireless System with 3D-Printed 26dBi Lens Antenna Achieving 12.5Gb/s at 1.55pJ/b/m detection using mixers, which are power hungry. With the choice of an optimum current density for maximum gain (enhanced nonlinearity regime), and device size to fulfill the NF requirement based on input power, the ED consumes only 750μW, with NF<15dB at input sensitivity levels.
Afshin Babveyh1, Siavash Kananian1, Aimeric Bisognin3,4, Cyril Luxey3, Frederic Gianesello4, Jorge Costa5,6, Carlos Fernandes7, Amin Arbabian1 To address the stringent link requirements, and also to utilize spatial degre
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Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Packaged 90-to-300GHz Transmitter and 115-to325GHz Coherent Receiver in CMOS for Full-Band Continuous-Wave mm-Wave Hyperspectral Imaging
Millimeter-wave/THz hyperspectral imaging has numerous applications in security, non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and medical diagnostics [1]. Unlike single-frequency imaging, hyperspectral imaging
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
Rapid and Energy-Efficient Molecular Sensing Using Dual mm-Wave Combs in 65nm CMOS: A 220-to-320GHz Spectrometer with 5.2mW Radiated Power and 14.6-to-19.5dB Noise Figure
Millimeter-wave/terahertz rotational spectroscopy offers ultra-wide-detection range of gas molecules for chemical and biomedical sensing. Therefore, wideband, energy-efficient, and fast-scanning CMOS spectrometers are in
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
An Intrinsically Linear Wideband Digital Polar PA Featuring AM-AM and AM-PM Corrections Through
Mohsen Hashemi1, Yiyu Shen1, Mohammadreza Mehrpoo1, Mustafa Acar2, René van Leuken1, Morteza S. Alavi1, Leonardus de Vreede1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Ampleon, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 1 2 T
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Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Sub-mW Antenna-Impedance Detection Using Electrical Balance for Single-Step On-Chip Tunable Matching in Wearable/Implantable Applications
g., heart-rate-monitor straps and implanted wireless sensors, need to be ultra-low-power (ULP), compact, and also robust against the proximity effect, which can significantly degrade the antenna and frontend performance
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 60GHz On-Chip Linear Radiator with Single-Element 27.9dBm Psat and 33.1dBm Peak EIRP Using Multifeed Antenna for Direct On-Antenna Power Combining
links, e.g., for the 5G communication, is to provide large transmitter (Tx) output power (Pout) with high energy efficiency and linearity from a limited supply voltage, so that the high path loss and limited link budget
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 28GHz Magnetic-Free Non-Reciprocal Passive CMOS Circulator Based on Spatio-Temporal Conductance Modulation
A significant challenge for silicon-based mm-wave systems is a low-loss sharedantenna (ANT) interface with high linearity, isolation (ISO) and bandwidth (BW). Shared ANT interfaces with simultaneous transmit and receive
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 318-to-370GHz Standing-Wave 2D Phased Array in 0.13μm BiCMOS
Fully integrated implementation of mm-wave/THz radiators and phased arrays presents new potentials for applications like spectroscopy, imaging, and high data-rate communication. These applications demand sufficient radia
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Digitally Assisted CMOS WiFi 802.11ac/11ax FrontEnd Module Achieving 12% PA Efficiency at 20dBm Output Power with 160MHz 256-QAM OFDM Signal
James F. Wang1, Osama Shanaa1 MediaTek, San Jose, CA, 2MediaTek, Kent, United Kingdom 1 Front-end modules (FEM) typically employ expensive III-V or SiGe technologies to provide relatively higher PA output power and lower
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 12b 10GS/s Interleaved Pipeline ADC in 28nm CMOS Technology
Jose Silva1, Janet Brunsilius2, Daniel Rey-Losada2, Frank Murden3, Carroll Speir3, Jeff Bray2, Eric Otte1, Nevena Rakuljic2, Phil Brown3, Todd Weigandt2, Qicheng Yu1, Donald Paterson1, Corey Petersen2, Jeffrey Gealow1 An
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 10b DC-to-20GHz Multiple-Return-to-Zero DAC with >48dB SFDR
towards mm-wave frequencies has increased the demand for UWB DACs with minimal spurious emissions. At mm-wave, intra-DAC dynamic timing and data errors consume a significant portion of the clock period, degrading SFDR. P
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
An 8GS/s Time-Interleaved SAR ADC with Unresolved Decision Detection Achieving -58dBFS Noise and 4GHz Bandwidth in 28nm CMOS
Bernd Wuppermann1, Charles Wu1, Cheongyuen W. Tsang1,3, Robert Neff1, Ken Nishimura1 Keysight Technologies, Santa Clara, CA 1 now with Apple, Cupertino, CA 3 now with Adecco, Mountain View, CA compared using an XNOR gate
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 5mW 7b 2.4GS/s 1-then-2b/cycle SAR ADC with Background Offset Calibration
Wireless communication systems and Ethernet networks call for moderateresolution GS/s energy-efficient ADCs. While previous work [1] shows that the multi-bit per cycle SAR ADC can achieve low power due to various hardwar
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 330mW 14b 6.8GS/s Dual-Mode RF DAC in 16nm FinFET Achieving -70.8dBc ACPR in a 20MHz Channel at 5.2GHz
Bob Verbruggen, John Mcgrath, Diarmuid Collins, Marites De La Torre, Pierrick Gay, Patrick Lynch, Peng Lim, Anthony Collins, Brendan Farley Xilinx, Dublin, Ireland Direct-RF synthesis has gained increasing attention in r
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 9GS/s 1GHz-BW Oversampled Continuous-Time Pipeline ADC Achieving -161dBFS/Hz NSD
front-end by a switchedcapacitor circuit and all internal signals are processed in discrete-time (DT) even though the front-end sampler introduces artifacts such as aliasing, noise folding, and high-peak ADC driving curr
ISSCC 2017
Session 16
Data Converters
A 13b 4GS/s Digitally Assisted Dynamic 3-Stage Asynchronous Pipelined-SAR ADC
Conrado Mesadri1, Ali Boumaalif3, John Mcgrath3, Umanath Kamath1, Ronnie De Le Torre1, Alvin Manlapat1, Daire Breathnach3, Christophe Erdmann1, Brendan Farley1 Xilinx, Dublin, Ireland Xilinx, San Jose, CA 3 Xilinx, Cork,
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
An Integrated Optical Physically Unclonable Function Using Process-Sensitive Sub-Wavelength Photonic Crystals in 65nm CMOS power meter to characterize the incident power, while the other half of the laser light shines uniformly on the chip under test. This setup is used to characterize the spectral responsivity of the photonic crystal, but is not required to generate responses for the PUF signature. The photonic structure itself serves as a linear polarizer that rejects incoming light in other polarization.
Physical unclonable function (PUF) is regarded as an emerging solution for reliable cryptography. Rather than storing secret keys in memories, the information of a PUF is extracted through amplification of the physically
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
A Permanent Digital Archive System Based on 4F2 X-Point Multi-Layer Metal Nano-Dot Structure
Data is saved by the presence of a metal nano-dot at a x-point of interconnects. This passive storage node works as a permanent memory cell with >1,000-years endurance. No transistor is used in the cell, enabling multi-l
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
Heterogeneous Integrated CMOS-Graphene Sensor Array for Dopamine Detection
for advancing our knowledge of pathological disorders such as drug addiction, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia. Currently, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) with carbon microfiber (CMF) electrodes is the method o
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
A 30-to-80MHz Simultaneous Dual-Mode Heterodyne Oscillator Targeting NEMS Array Gravimetric Sensing Applications with a 300zg Mass Resolution
scale physical variations has led to the breakthrough development of NEMS-based mass spectrometry systems capable of measuring a single molecule [1]. Parallel sensing using thousands of devices will help to circumvent th
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Scalable Quantum Computing
Andrei Vladimirescu4,5, Mina Shahmohammadi1, Robert Bogdan Staszewski1, Harald A.R. Homulle1, Bishnu Patra1, Jeroen P.G. van Dijk1, Rosario M. Incandela1, Lin Song1,6, Bahador Valizadehpasha1 Delft University of Technolo
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
A 1024-Element Scalable Optical Phased Array in 0.18µm SOI CMOS
Self-driving cars, drones, and other autonomous systems rely on a number of sensors such as cameras, radars, and ultrasonic detectors to observe their surrounding environments. Light detection and ranging (lidar), where
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
An a-IGZO Asynchronous Delta-Sigma Modulator on Foil Achieving up to 43dB SNR and 40dB SNDR in 300Hz Bandwidth 3.4kHz and increases robustness against batch to batch variations. At the comparator output a source follower drives the current DAC. This is composed of a current source and four switches, implemented as double gate TFTs with gate and TG connected together.
Gerwin H. Gelinck2, Arthur H. M. Van Roermund1, Eugenio Cantatore1 Figure 15.3.3 shows the measured ADSM output spectrum for a 100Hz IIN with -7dBFS amplitude: the fundamental, the limit cycle fundamental at 2kHz and its
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
A Flexible ISO14443-A Compliant 7.5mW 128b Metal-Oxide NFC Barcode Tag with Direct Clock Division Circuit from 13.56MHz Carrier
Marc Ameys1, Myriam Willegems1, Steve Smout1, Soeren Steudel1, Wim Dehaene1,3, Jan Genoe1,3 imec, Heverlee, Belgium AU Optronics, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3 KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 1 2 Flexible low-cost RFID/NFC tags have grea
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
Other
Large-Scale Acquisition of Large-Area Sensors Using an Array of Frequency-Hopping ZnO Thin-Film-Transistor Oscillators
James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Hybrid systems combine Large-Area Electronics (LAE) and silicon CMOS ICs for sensing and computation, respectively. Such systems are limited in number of s
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
Digital Processors
A 135mW Fully Integrated Data Processor for Next-Generation Sequencing
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 DNA sequencing is the process of determining the precise order of nucleotides (A, C, G, T) within a DNA molecule and is now indispensable for genetics and medical resea
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
Digital Processors
A 288μW Programmable Deep-Learning Processor with 270KB On-Chip Weight Storage Using Non-Uniform Memory Hierarchy for Mobile Intelligence
Qing Dong1, Yen-Po Chen1, Laura Fick1, Xun Sun1, Ron Dreslinski1, Trevor Mudge1, Hun Seok Kim1, David Blaauw1, Dennis Sylvester1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI CubeWorks, Ann Arbor, MI 1 2 Deep learning has proven
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
Digital Processors
A 0.62mW Ultra-Low-Power Convolutional-NeuralNetwork Face-Recognition Processor and a CIS Integrated with Always-On Haar-Like Face Detector
for the next-generation UI/UX of wearable devices. A FR system, shown in Fig. 14.6.1, was developed as a life-cycle analyzer or a personal black box, constantly recording the people we meet, along with time and place inf
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
AI / ML
ENVISION: A 0.26-to-10TOPS/W Subword-Parallel Dynamic-Voltage-Accuracy-Frequency-Scalable Convolutional Neural Network Processor in 28nm FDSOI
ConvNets, or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), are state-of-the-art classification algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual recognition
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
Digital Processors
A Scalable Speech Recognizer with Deep-NeuralNetwork Acoustic Models and Voice-Activated Power Gating
Analog Devices, Cambridge, MA 1 Previous work such as [4] provided micropower VADs that can be used in quiet environments or in applications that tolerate false alarms. In our application, false alarms will unnecessarily
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
Digital Processors
A 28nm SoC with a 1.2GHz 568nJ/Prediction Sparse Deep-Neural-Network Engine with >0.1 Timing Error Rate Tolerance for IoT Applications
(IoT) devices with the capability to interpret the complex, noisy real-world data arising from sensorrich systems. Achieving sufficient energy efficiency to execute ML workloads on an edge-device necessitates specialized
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
AI / ML
DNPU: An 8.1TOPS/W Reconfigurable CNN-RNN Processor for General-Purpose Deep Neural Networks
Recently, deep learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has become universal in all-around applications. CNNs are used to support vision recognition and processing, and RNNs
ISSCC 2017
Session 14
AI / ML
A 2.9TOPS/W Deep Convolutional Neural Network SoC in FD-SOI 28nm for Intelligent Embedded Systems
Elio Guidetti1, Fabio De Ambroggi4, Tommaso Majo1, Paolo Zambotti4, Manuj Ayodhyawasi2, Harvinder Singh2, Nalin Aggarwal2 STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Italy STMicroelectronics, Greater Noida, India 3 STMicroelectronics
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 1.1V 28.6dBm Fully Integrated Digital Power Amplifier for Mobile and Wireless Applications in 28nm CMOS Technology with 35% PAE
wireless applications emerge, calling for increasingly higher integration and smaller footprint, while ensuring high reliability and operation at limited supply voltages. In this context, the integration of the power amp
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 24dBm 2-to-4.3GHz Wideband Digital Power Amplifier with Built-In AM-PM Distortion SelfCompensation
spectrum-efficient modulation schemes such as 64QAM and 256QAM and high data-rates. This poses stringent requirements on RF Power Amplifiers (PAs) for their carrier bandwidth, linearity, modulation rate, and efficiency.
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 0.23mm2 Digital Power Amplifier with Hybrid Time/Amplitude Control Achieving 22.5dBm at 28% PAE for 802.11g
Ashkan Olyaei2, Ovidiu Carnu2, Philip Godoy2, Alden Wong2, Xingliang Zhao2, Jiexi Liu2, Arnab Mitra2, Randy Tsang2, Li Lin2 Marvell, Etoy, Switzerland 2 Marvell, Santa Clara, CA 1 Integration of digital RF transmitters a
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 2.4GHz WLAN Digital Polar Transmitter with Synthesized Digital-to-Time Converter in 14nm Trigate/FinFET Technology for IoT and Wearable Applications
Muhammad Faisal1,b, William Yee Li1, Hyung Seok Kim1, Khoa Minh Nguyen1, Yulin Tan1,c, Brent Carlton1, Vaibhav Vaidya1, Yanjie Wang1, Thomas Tetzlaff1, Satoshi Suzuki1, Amr Fahim1,d, Parmoon Seddighrad1, Jianyong Xie2, Z
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 0.35-to-2.6GHz Multilevel Outphasing Transmitter with a Digital Interpolating Phase Modulator Enabling up to 400MHz Instantaneous Bandwidth
Tero Nieminen1, Mikko Englund1, Kari Stadius1, Lauri Anttila2, Jorma Pallonen3, Mikko Valkama2, Jussi Ryynänen1 Aalto University, Espoo, Finland Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland 3 Nokia, Espoo, Finland
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
All-Digital RF Transmitter in 28nm CMOS with Programmable RX-Band Noise Shaping
Paul Stynen2, Kaoutar Bertrand2, Teuvo Korhonen2, Hans Samsom2, Patrick Vandenameele2, Jussi Ryynänen1 Aalto University, Espoo, Finland Huawei Technologies, Leuven, Belgium 1 The TX prototype was fabricated in 28nm CMOS
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A SAW-Less Reconfigurable Multimode Transmitter with a Voltage-Mode Harmonic-Reject Mixer in 14nm FinFET CMOS
Multimode cellular RFICs need high dynamic range in order to simultaneously satisfy the high linearity requirements of LTE and the low-noise performance of 2G. Traditionally, SAW filters are employed to relax the noise-l
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A Digital Multimode Polar Transmitter Supporting 40MHz LTE Carrier Aggregation in 28nm CMOS
Jonas Fritzin1, Hans Geltinger2, Marcus Groinig3, Daniel Gruber3, Simon Gruenberger3, Thomas Hartig3, Vahur Kampus3, Boris Kapfelsberger1, Franz Kuttner3, Stephan Leuschner1, Thomas Maletz1, Andreas Menkhoff1, Jose Morei
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A >1W 2.2GHz Switched-Capacitor Digital Power Amplifier with Wideband Mixed-Domain Multi-Tap FIR Filtering of OOB Noise Floor
Digital power amplifiers and transmitters have drawn significant interest in the recent past due to their reconfigurability, compatibility with CMOS technology scaling and DSP, and potential for automated design synthesi
ISSCC 2017
Session 13
RF & Wireless
A Fully Integrated Multimode Front-End Module for GSM/EDGE/TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE Applications Using a Class-F CMOS Power Amplifier
Chien-Wei Tseng1, Lai-Ching Lin1, Chris Beale2, Bosen Tseng1, Bernard Tenbroek2, Chinq-Shiun Chiu1, Guang-Kaai Dehng1, George Chien3 MediaTek, Hsinchu, Taiwan MediaTek, Kent, United Kingdom 3 MediaTek, San Jose, CA 1 2 T