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An On-Chip Supply-Voltage Control System Considering PVT Variations for Worst-Caseless Lower Voltage SoC Design Takayuki GYOHTEN Fukashi MORISHITA Isamu HAYASHI Mako OKAMOTO Hideyuki NODA Katsumi DOSAKA Kazutami ARIMOTO Yasutaka HORIBA Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E89-C No.11 pp.1519-1525 Publication Date: 2006/11/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1353 DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.11.1519 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Novel Device Architectures and System Integration Technologies) Category: Keyword: PVT variation, temperature detection, series regulator, Full Text: PDF(1.5MB)>>
Summary: Adaptive voltage management (AVM) scheme is proposed for worst-caseless lower voltage SoC design. The AVM scheme detects the temperature accurately by using two oscillators with different temperature characteristics, and sets supply voltage most suitable with a table look-up method corresponding to the process variation. Also, the AVM can supply the stable voltage with a local shift type regulator even at lower voltage. Thereby, this supply-voltage control system considering PVT variations can control the internal voltage corresponding to process and temperature variations and can realize a wide-operating-margin, DFM function for low voltage SoC. The experimental chip is fabricated on a 90 nm CMOS process, and it was confirmed that the proposed architecture controls the voltage accurately and has a wide operating margin at a lower voltage. | |||||
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