SESSION WA 21
SALON 10-15, Wed, 9
8:30 AM


MIXED-SIGNAL TECHNIQUES

Chair: G. Uehara, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Associate Chair: S. Sutardja, Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Sunnyvale, CA


21.1 A Mixed Digital-Analog 16b Microcontroller with 0.5Mb Flash Memory On-Chip Power Supply Physical Network Interface and 40V I/O for Automotive
Single-Chip Mechatronics 8:30 AM
J. Specks, P. Broderick, R. Erckert, J. Kruecken, H. Harb
Motorola, Munich, Germany

A microcontroller for mechatronic single-chip packaging includes a 16b microcontroller with 0.5Mb flash programmable memory and CAN communication controller analog I/O peripherals. 0.65 um CMOS extended for high voltage requires only two more masks. The 88mm 2 1.8M-transistor chip is specified for a silicon temperature range -40 oC to+125 oC, and can be directly powered from the 14V car net.


21.2 A 1GHz Portable Digital Delay-Locked Loop with Infinite Phase Capture Ranges 9:00 AM
K. Minami, M. Mizuno, H. Yamaguchi, T. Nakano, Y. Matsushima,
Y. Sumi 1, T. Sato 2, H. Yamashida, M. Yamashina
NEC Corp. Sagamihara, Japan
1NEC Informatec Systems, Ltd, Kanagawa, Japan
2NEC Engineering Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

A 1GHz portable digital DLL with infinite phase capture ranges use master-slave architecture, wave-synchronous latch, and dynamic phase detector. The DLL occupies 800x400 um2 in 0.15 um 3-layer metal CMOS. Peak-to-peak jitter with quiet supply is 29ps at 1GHz.


21.3 A 330MHz Low-Jitter and Fast-Locking Direct Skew Compensation DLL 9:30 AM
S-H. Han, J-H. Lee, H-J. Yoo
Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea

A DLL with small phase difference for high-speed interfaces employs direct skew compensation. A digital-to-time converter/time-to-digital converter compensates initial phase difference and an analog voltage-controlled delay line compensates remaining phase difference. A prototype in 0.4 um SDRAM technology adds 5ps jitter to the clock source of 150ps peak-to-peak jitter. Lock-in is <10 cycles over 150-350MHz.

BREAK 10:00 AM


21.4 A 23mW 256-Tap 8MSample/s QPSK Matched Filter for DS-CDMA Cellular Telephony using Recycling Integrator Correlators
10:15 AM
D. Senderowicz, S. Azuma 1, H. Matsui 1, K. Hara 1, S. Kawama 1,
Y. Ohta 1, M. Miyamoto 1, K. Iizuka 1
SynchroDesign Inc., Berkeley, CA
1Sharp Corp., Tenri, Nara, Japan

A 256-tap 8MSample/s QPSK matched filter for a DS-CDMA receiver consists of 1040 correlators, each incorporating a form of [Sigma][Delta] modulation called recycling integrator to obtain a 9b quantized correlation value between a received signal and a PN sequence. Fabricated in 0.35 um double-metal double-poly CMOS, the chip occupies 22.8mm 2 and dissipates 23mW with a 1.8V supply.


21.5 An Analog 0.25 um BiCMOS Tailbiting MAP Decoder
10:45 AM
M. Moerz 1, 2, T. Gabara 1, R. Yan 1, J. Hagenauer 2
1Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
2Munich Univ. of Technology, Munich, Germany

A fully-analog 0.25 um BiCMOS tailbiting MAP decoder with 1/2 code rate has measured BER matching simulated results over the full 0 to 7dB Eb/N [omicron] range. The measured transient impulse response indicates an operating rate of 320Mb/s while dissipating only 20mW. A digitally-equivalent circuit would consume significantly more power, area, and delay.


21.6 A 550Mb/s GMR Read/Write Amplifier using 0.5 um
5V CMOS Process
11:00 AM
S. Lam, L. Cheng, D. Young
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

An 8-channel CMOS GMR amplifier read path includes a 0.5nV/ [radical]Hz noise level amplifier with -3dB bandwidth >300MHz. The 8V write driver has <680ps rise/fall time (10%-90% with L H=80nH and I WR=+/-35mA). The chip includes thermal asperity, fault detection, servo bank write, pinned layer reversal (PLR) and digital programmability for MR bias current, read gain, write current, and write data input impedance.

CONCLUSION 11:15 AM