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A 40 nm CMOS I/O Pad Design With Embedded Capacitive Coupling Receiver for Non-Contact Wafer Probe Test
No full textA receiver for capacitive coupled communication is embedded in a digital input/output pad to add the capacity for non-contact data communication, while maintaining size, ESD protection, and buffering functions unchanged, even in contact mode. The added feature allows non-contact probing of die pads and provides a reliable alternative solution to mechanical probing for electrical wafer sort testing of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) and Systems-in-Package (SiPs) because of elimination of pad damage and reduction of the force required to create stable electrical contacts between probe needles and pads. The proposed receiver detects the displacement current flowing through the capacitive channel created between the connecting probe needle and top metal pad surface when a transition in the input digital stimulus signal occurs. The receiver is designed to work up to 100 Mbit/s data rate with a power of 340 μW in a 40 nm CMOS process. The circuit trade-offs between frequency, amplitude of the step input and distance are discussed. Experimental results show that for a 5 V input voltage amplitude, the receiver allows correct data transmission at a distance up to 5 μm, which increases to 10 μm if the top aluminum layer is divided in two, using a customized I/O pad design. The feasibility of this non-contact testing approach was verified through electrical tests on two IP blocks, an LFSR, and a PLL with a scan chain, using a standard prober and a cantilever probe card designed with 19 needles of different lengths to enable both physical contact connections for power supply and non-contact capacitive coupling data communication for signals
A Broadband Current-Mode X-Hall Sensor for Smart Power and Metering Applications
No full textThis paper presents the design of a fully-integrated X-Hall sensor operated in current mode without any spinning technique. It demonstrates its utility by meeting the broadband demand of power and energy applications by achieving an estimated acquisition bandwidth of 11.6 MHz. The X-Hall probe is interfaced with a self-biased transimpedance amplifier having a transimpedance gain equivalent to 200 kΩ. With a sensitivity of 4%T−1 for the Hall probe, the overall sensor consumes nearly 50 times less power and occupies half the area than the state of the art. The prototype is implemented using 90-nm microelectronic process from STMicroelectronics
Hall sensor and sensing method, and corresponding device
No full textA Hall sensor may include a Hall sensing element configured to produce a Hall voltage indicative of a magnetic field when traversed by an electric current, and a first pair of bias electrodes mutually opposed in a first direction across the Hall sensing element. The Hall sensor may include a second pair of bias electrodes mutually opposed in a second direction across the Hall sensing element. The Hall sensor may include a first pair of sensing electrodes mutually opposed in a third direction across the Hall sensing element, and a second pair of sensing electrodes mutually opposed in a fourth direction across the Hall sensing element. The fourth direction may be orthogonal to the third direction, each sensing electrode being between a bias electrode of the first pair and a bias electrode of the second pair
A Fully Programmable eFPGA-Augmented SoC for Smart Power Applications
Get PDFThis paper proposes a reconfigurable system on chip (SoC) for smart power applications. The system is composed of an ultra-low-power microcontroller for standard software programmability, coupled to an embedded-FPGA (eFPGA) to perform control-driven applications and lightweight digital signal processing, at lower power consumption and higher responsiveness than with processor-based execution. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first heterogeneous reconfigurable SoC targeting smart power applications. The SoC targets BCD technologies integrating bipolar, CMOS, and DMOS devices, typically featuring a small number of metal layers when compared with the traditional CMOS technologies. The added value of the proposed system is that the digital system is fully synthesizable since the eFPGA is based on a soft-core approach. This paper presents the results of integrating an eFPGA with a computational capability of equivalent gates in STMicroelectronics 90-nm BCD technology featuring five metal layers and high- transistors. We benchmarked our architecture on a wide range of applications relevant to the smart power domain. eFPGA integration in SoCs introduces a 20& x0025;-27& x0025; area overhead but has a straightforward benefit in terms of energy consumption, which proves reduction from about to . In terms of latency, the eFPGA implementation allows a gain from to comparing the pure cycles count
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Experimental characterization of bandwidth limits in hall sensors
No full textModern power applications are demanding for broadband current sensors. Hall sensors are a good solution from a general standpoint, but practical implementations are limited to a few hundred kHz. In fact, many parasitic dynamic effects perturb the time response of the Hall sensor, making difficult to experimentally assess the fundamental frequency limit and achieve it in the applications. This paper presents an equivalent electrical model that helps to design a test aimed at experimentally estimating the intrinsic time response of the sensor. According this test, the paper demonstrates that Hall sensors have an upper bandwidth limit defined by the overall capacitive load. Moreover, some of the parasitic dynamic effects, which degrade the time response in real operation, are identified and investigated
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Quantitative analysis of multistage switching networks for embedded programmable devices
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the properties of a class of congestion-free multistage switching networks (MSSNs) are butterfly-based and suitable for embedded programmable devices, which require sustaining static multicast connectivity. These MSSNs are fully synthesizable and enable the design of programmable IPs with typical size in the order of 1 KLUT, coupling flexibility with fast turn-around time. The non-blocking property for static connection of this class of MSSN is discussed. Our analysis shows pros and cons of adopting radix-2 or radix-4 MSSN structures, as well as the impact of bypass-paths to make the network fully hierarchical and locality-aware thanks also to a dedicated programming strategy. Implementation experiments carried out on STM CMOS 65 nm technology show the availability of various area-speed trade-offs, resulting in a range of ≃2× in frequency and a range of ≃4× in area. Depending on the specific application-field, an optimal interconnect definition is thus achieved without compromising the routability properties. In this respect, the paper proposes a simplified application-driven model for evaluation of the best MSSN, including bypass-adoption and radix selection
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