What happened in IME, Singapore A brief introduction

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What happened in IME, Singapore -----A brief
introduction
Tian Tong Radio Frequency Integrated Systems and
Circuits Division Aalborg University Oct. 1,
2004
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What happened in IME, Singapore outline

• OUTLINE
• Overview of IME, Singapore
• Research Action
• Effort on UWB

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What happened in IME, Singapore outline

• OUTLINE
• Overview of IME, Singapore
• Research Action
• Effort on UWB

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What happened in IME, Singapore overview
of IME, Singapore 1
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of IME, Singapore 2
IME Research Scope
Integrated Circuits Systems Laboratory (ICS)

• Giga-Hertz
• Transceiver ICs

• Si/SiGe Devices,
• Planar Lightwave Circuits
• Photonics Bandgaps

• Mixed-Signal
• ASIC Design,
• Device Modeling

• Strategic Research Programs Alliances
• Optical Network Focused Interest Group (ONFIG)
• Bio-sensor Focused Interest Group (BFIG)
• Nano-Wafer Level Packaging (NWLP)
• Electronic Packaging Task Force (EPTF)
• Joint Microelectronics Lab (JML)

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Research and design capability
-Transceiver for wireless/Optical Fiber
communication
-Transceiver for ultra-wide band system
-Baseband system design
-Sensor servo circuit -Device
modeling for RF -Multiple project
wafer service
Fund Core project Self Fund Customer
project Industry fund

Per year, on the average, ICS
- complete 3 industry projects
- complete 5 Core/research projects
with University/RIs -
submit 12 invention disclosures
- publish 10 papers
- train 12 undergraduate and 5 post-graduate
students
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Testing equipment
EDA equipment and Software

• Network analyser Agilent 8720D,
• Agilent8510C2,
  
• Agilent E5071B
• Noise analyser Agilent 8536E,
• RS FSIQ26
• CW and Digital
• Modulation AgilentE8247C,
• RS SMP02,
• SMIQ06
• Signal Gernerator Frequency up to
• 20GHz
• Logical analyzer Agilent 16500C

• 51 SUN Workstation
• Cadence
• Hspice
• ADS
• IC Cap
• Probe plate

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What happened in IME, Singapore outline

• OUTLINE
• Overview of IME, Singapore
• Research Action
• Effort on UWB

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What happened in IME, Singapore Research
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Optical Fiber transceiver system
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Optical Fiber transceiver system
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2.5G bps CDR Block - IME project
Optical Fiber transceiver system
Tested result and Die photograph
Phase Noise-95dBc/Hz _at_ 100 kHz offset
2.5Gbps Eye Diagram (100 mV/Div)
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10G bps CDR Block - IME project
Optical Fiber transceiver system
Tested result and Die photograph
Phase Noise-89dBc/Hz _at_ 100 kHz offset
10G bps Eye Diagram (21 mV/Div)
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Future Work and challenges
40G bps,100Gbps and upper Optical Fiber
transceiver system

• Challenges
• To Challenge the limit of CMOS device performance
• To design more wide bandwidth and higher
  operating frequency TIA.
• To design high Clock generator and very high
  speed digital Blocks
• To design more fast CDR loop.
• To co-design with advanced package technology

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UWB-Ultra-wide band system

• Advantages
• High data rate, gt 100Mbps, can up to 2Gbps
• Simple transceiver architecture
• Good multi-path performance
• Good co-exist performance

• Challenges
• Very High challenge in bandwidth design for
  almost
• every block( bandwidth gt 500MHz, some Block
  up to 7.5Ghz)
• High sensitive and high gain receiver
• Low cost design
• Low power design
• Advanced wideband package technology

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Future Work and challenges
3.1GHz10.6GHz, 24GHz, 60GHz and 78GHz UWB
Transceiver IC for Communication, locating
detection and security application

• Challenges
• To Challenge the limit of Si/SiGe CMOS device
  performance
• To find the effective theory and method for
  Ultra-wide band circuit design.
• To design analog transceiver with bandwidth large
  than 10GHz
• To design analog receiver with high sensitivity
  for long distance commu
• -nication and very weak signal receiving
• To design very narrow pulse(10 pico second)
  generator for transmission.
• To design high speed analog synchronization
  section
• To co-design with advanced antenna technology and
  package technology

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RFID-Tag IC architecture
RFID-Radio Frequency Identification
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RFID-Radio Frequency Identification

• Challenges
• Passive operating mode, No power supply on Tag IC
• Very low power consumption
• Can be operated in Wide range power supply
• Very small die area
• Very Low cost
• Very low package cost.

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RFID-Radio Frequency Identification Tag - IME
Project

• Small die size of 1 mm2
• Able to generates 100 µW power passively at 10 cm
  distance.
• Operating at low voltage, as low as 1.0 V on CMOS
  0.25µm.
• Operating at low power, 20 µW during downlink
  communication with reader
• No generation of 2.45 GHz local carrier.
  Back-scattering approach was used.
• Fully integrated except antenna.

RFID Tag IC
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What happened in IME, Singapore outline

• OUTLINE
• Overview of IME, Singapore
• Research Action
• Effort on UWB

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What happened in IME, Singapore Effort
on UWB 1
Introduction

• Funded and orgnized by Astar, a department of
  Singapore
• Government
• Officially start at Jan. 2004
• target practical application technology
  developing
• support the industry technical developing
• Train manpower for industry
• Joint research among universities and institute
  is encouraged

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Research orgnization
Theme 1. Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4 ......
Phase 1
UWB research
Phase 2
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on UWB 3

• Principle scope
• Short range HDR data wireless transfer
• Short range low price M/HDR wireless transfer
• Position detection
• Security sensor
• Wireless ID

• Principle technology
• DS-CDMA/OFDM(for data transfer)
• Impulse Radio( position detection, sensor and ID
  system
• Compatible system
• CMOS/SiGe IC technology

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• Principle work in IME
• Implementation in CMOS process
• Package technology

• Job in our Lab. Principle technology
• RF part System design, specification and
  implemetation.
• Blocks design and integration.

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on UWB 5
Result in our Lab
Integral transceiver with High order Gaussian
pulse for position and sensor

• Principle concept, time domain pulse compression
• Process gain from pulse compression
• High sensitivety
• Low requirement for first a few stages(
  preamplifier)
• Low power comsumption.
• Compatible with communication system.

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UWB 6
Result in our Lab
Channel model for indoor UWB system.
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Result in our Lab
4-quarter multiplier
Summary of Multiplier simulation result
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Result in our Lab
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Result in our Lab
Pulse integrator
Summary of integrator simulation result
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Result in our Lab
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Result in our Lab
Preamplifier
Summary of simulation resultpreamplifier
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Result in our Lab
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Result in our Lab
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