Robustness to Voltage Noise With Ring Oscillator Clocks

Machado, Lucas Silveira; Roca, Antoni; Cortadella, Jordi

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“…In addition, the highly compact and large number of transistors in a circuit can cause more nonlinear effects by which the amplitude of supply noise harmonics rises, eventually leading to bit failure. Therefore, maintaining signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) is very challenging in high-speed nanodevice-based circuits [7], [8], [9], [10]. The term SI and PI deals with the quality of signal and the quality of power, respectively.…”

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Indefinite Admittance Matrix Based Modelling of PSIJ in Nano-Scale CMOS I/O Drivers

Sharma

Tripathi

Shrimali

2022

IEEE Open J. Nanotechnol.

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The past decade has witnessed a tremendous reduction in the feature size from the deepsubmicron to the advanced nano-scale CMOS devices. In nanoscale devices based high-speed systems, the budgeting of jitter due to supply fluctuations is one of the major performance bottlenecks while designing integrated circuits (ICs). In this paper, an accurate and efficient method to analyse power supply induced jitter (PSIJ) in CMOS N-stage inverters is developed using the estimation-by-inspection method. Based on the Indefinite Admittance Matrix, a reduced two-port network is developed for a multiple-input circuit, considering the presence of the supply/bulk/ground sources. The closed-form expressions of the PSIJ have been evaluated for a single and N-stages CMOS inverter chain. The expression is also valid for the PSIJ analysis at any intermediate stage of the N-stage chain. For validation purpose, the circuits are designed in a standard 28 nm CMOS technology with V DD of 1 V. The analytical results are compared with the simulation and the experiments. The maximum mean percentage error for EDA simulation and experimentally measured results are 2.4% and 13%, respectively. The proposed analysis is compared with some of the existing PSIJ modelling techniques and shows a significant improvement in speed-up factor and error percentage.INDEX TERMS Two-port network, indefinite admittance matrix (IAM), power supply induced jitter (PSIJ), nano-scale devices.

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Indefinite Admittance Matrix Based Modelling of PSIJ in Nano-Scale CMOS I/O Drivers

Sharma

Tripathi

Shrimali

2022

IEEE Open J. Nanotechnol.

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“…Consequently, power integrity became a key factor in the design of reliable high-performance circuits. ring oscillator clocks (ROCs) have been proposed as an alternative to mitigate the negative effects of voltage noise [71]. The capability of reacting instantaneously to large voltage droops makes ROCs an attractive solution, which also allows to relax the constraints required for the PDN design.…”

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“…Robustness to voltage noise is achieved without degrading performance, making possible the simplification of the PDN design. These contributions have been published in the following papers: [71]…”

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Logic decomposition and adaptive clocking for the optimization of digital circuits

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Over the course of 60 years, since the invention of the integrated circuit (IC), exponential improvements in cost, performance and power consumption were observed. Such advances have been strongly linked with the continuous reduction of the dimensions in manufactured ICs, but this trend has shown decreasing benefits as fundamental limits are reached. Notice that such tiny devices have increased variability, which generates unpredictable variations in the behavior of the manufactured devices. These uncertainties are typically addressed by defining margins on the clock period, estimated during the design phase. However, the overly conservative margins produce significant degradations in performance. Additionally, the evolution that enabled circuits with increasingly higher density of components, also resulted in an extremely complex IC design. At every step, electronic design automation (EDA) tools are challenged to handle this increasing complexity, requiring more powerful techniques to comply with the specification constraints within an affordable runtime. This thesis investigates alternatives in order to improve power, performance, area, and cost, using established IC manufacturing technologies. Advances in EDA are proposed in three distinct topics: area minimization using Boolean methods, area and delay reduction for designs based on fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA), and an alternative clocking scheme to reduce timing margins. The first contribution consists of a technology-independent method for area minimization of combinational logic. Local optimization is applied on and-inverter graphs (AIGs), performing multi-output Boolean decomposition using two-literal divisors, targeting node count reduction. The second contribution regards two methods targeting technology mapping of FPGAs. On one hand, a functional decomposition approach, which uses the support size as cost function, exploring the inherent characteristics of FPGAs. On the other hand, an approach for recursive remapping, which reduces the structural bias of the subject graph, uses the mapping results as cost function, and obtains significant reductions in area and delay. The third contribution evaluates the dynamic variability mitigation and simplification of power delivery networks (PDNs) using an adaptive clocking scheme based on ring oscillator clocks (ROCs). The impact of the PDN parameters and ROC location is investigated, showing potential improvements in performance, leakage power and cost. A lo largo de los 60 años desde la invención del circuito integrado (CI), se han producido mejoras exponenciales en su coste, rendimiento y consumo de energía. Ese progreso esta fuertemente vinculado a la reducción continua de las dimensiones de fabricación de los circuitos integrados, pero esta tendencia ha ido mostrando menos beneficios a medida que se alcanzan límites fundamentales. Estos dispositivos minúsculos tienen una mayor variabilidad, lo que genera variaciones impredecibles en el comportamiento de los dispositivos fabricados. Estas incertidumbres generalmente se abordan mediante la definición de márgenes en el período de reloj, estimado durante la fase de diseño. Sin embargo, márgenes excesivamente conservadores producen degradaciones significativas en el rendimiento. Además, la evolución que permitió crear circuitos con una densidad de componentes cada vez mayor, también incrementado la complejidad de los CI. En cada paso del proceso de diseño, las herramientas de automatización de diseño electrónico (EDA) se enfrentan al desafío de manejar esta complejidad creciente, lo que requiere técnicas más potentes para cumplir con las restricciones impuestas por las especificaciónes dentro de un tiempo de ejecución asequible. Esta tesis investiga alternativas para mejorar el consumo de energía, el rendimiento, el área y el coste, utilizando las tecnologías de fabricación de CI ya establecidas. Los avances en EDA se proponen en tres temas distintos: minimización de área usando métodos booleanos, reducción de retardo y área para diseños basados en matrices de puertas programables (FPGA), y un esquema de reloj alternativo para reducir los márgenes de tiempo excesivamente conservadores. La primera contribución consiste en un método independiente de tecnología para minimizar el área de la lógica combinacional. Se aplica optimización local en grafos de AND-inversor, utilizando una descomposición Booleana de múltiples salidas con divisores de dos literales, con el objetivo de reducir la cantidad de nodos. La segunda contribución propone dos métodos para el mapeo tecnológico de los FPGA. Por un lado, un método de descomposición funcional, que utiliza el tamaño del soporte como función de coste, explorando las características inherentes de los FPGA. Por otro lado, un método de mapeo recursivo, que reduce la distorsión estructural del grafo sujeto, utiliza los resultados del mapeo como función de coste y obtiene reducciones significativas en área y retardo. La tercera contribución evalúa la mitigación de la variabilidad dinámica y la simplificación de la red de suministro de energía (PDN) utilizando un esquema de reloj adaptativo basado en un oscilador en anillo (ROC). Se investiga el impacto de los parámetros de la PDN y la ubicación del ROC, mostrando mejoras potenciales en el rendimiento, consumo estático y coste.

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Robustness to Voltage Noise With Ring Oscillator Clocks

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Indefinite Admittance Matrix Based Modelling of PSIJ in Nano-Scale CMOS I/O Drivers

Indefinite Admittance Matrix Based Modelling of PSIJ in Nano-Scale CMOS I/O Drivers

Logic decomposition and adaptive clocking for the optimization of digital circuits

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