TY - GEN
T1 - An extended XY coil for noise reduction in inductive-coupling link
AU - Saito, Mitsuko
AU - Kasuga, Kazutaka
AU - Takeya, Tsutomu
AU - Miura, Noriyuki
AU - Kuroda, Tadahiro
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Inductive-coupling link between stacked chips in a package communicates by using coils made by on-chip Interconnections. An XY-coil layout style allows logic interconnections to go through the coil, which significantly saves Interconnection resources consumed by the coil. However, the logic interconnections generate capacitive-coupling noise on the coil and degrade signal in the inductive-coupling link. In this paper, an extended XY coil with ground shields is presented for noise reduction. Simulation study shows that the noise voltage is reduced to 1/5 of the conventional XY coil. This noise reduction enables to reduce transmit power required for the same BER. Test-chip measurement in 0.18μm CMOS demonstrates that the transmit power at 1Gb/s with BER<10-12 is reduced by 60% compared to the conventional XY coil.
AB - Inductive-coupling link between stacked chips in a package communicates by using coils made by on-chip Interconnections. An XY-coil layout style allows logic interconnections to go through the coil, which significantly saves Interconnection resources consumed by the coil. However, the logic interconnections generate capacitive-coupling noise on the coil and degrade signal in the inductive-coupling link. In this paper, an extended XY coil with ground shields is presented for noise reduction. Simulation study shows that the noise voltage is reduced to 1/5 of the conventional XY coil. This noise reduction enables to reduce transmit power required for the same BER. Test-chip measurement in 0.18μm CMOS demonstrates that the transmit power at 1Gb/s with BER<10-12 is reduced by 60% compared to the conventional XY coil.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357248
DO - 10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357248
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76249123824
SN - 9781424444342
T3 - Proceedings of Technical Papers - 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2009
SP - 305
EP - 308
BT - Proceedings of Technical Papers - 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2009
Y2 - 16 November 2009 through 18 November 2009
ER -