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    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Nano and Tera Systems The revolution in information and communication technology that is taking information flow into the era of tera-bits and the biomedical advances down to molecular scale would not have taken place without the accompanying downscaling of CMOS technology to the nano scale device size and tera system complexity. This aggressive downscaling has allowed the number of transistors per chip to be increased, thus extending their functionality and pushing up speed performance. However, this is obtained at the cost of severe degradation in certain quality metrics, such as increase of parameter variability, strong degradation of device matching, and increase in leakage currents including gate leakage, stronger short-channel effects (weak-inversion slope reduction, drain-induced barrier lowering, etc), ever lower supply voltage, novel degradation mechanisms and increasing reliability constraints. The profound changes in the device structure that are required to mitigate or eventually circumvent all these degradations will obviously have a significant impact on the way circuits, and particularly analog and RF circuits, have to be designed. It is therefore crucial to fully understand the operation and limitations of these devices in order to design robust digital, analog and RF circuits. In the next decade, the challenges to the semiconductor industry and the applications it supports will lie not so much in realizing smaller and faster transistors as in how to make the best out of the billions of transistors per chip we already have. Understanding how to handle complexity in mixed signal embedded systems is therefore crucial for the next generation of applications that deal with health, microsystems and communications. How to partition system functionality into digital, analog and RF or sensor realizations on a system on chip optimally is one of the key topics that will impact the era of nano CMOS technologies. This project investigates the challenges in mixed signal platforms, such as those embedded in biomedical electronics, micro-systems, sensor networks and wireless communications, from both device and systems perspective. Demonstrators will be developed that cover generic sensor interface/data acquisition, passive telemetry, wireless body area network, wireless sensor networking and wireless wide area networks. The achievements will benefit other Nano-Tera projects focusing on the sensor/actuator side of microsystems, as well as wireless communications SoCs that will challenge the state-of-the-art in integration level, versatility and sophistication of nano CMOS systems.

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    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Nano and Tera Systems The revolution in information and communication technology that is taking information flow into the era of tera-bits and the biomedical advances down to molecular scale would not have taken place without the accompanying downscaling of CMOS technology to the nano scale device size and tera system complexity. This aggressive downscaling has allowed the number of transistors per chip to be increased, thus extending their functionality and pushing up speed performance. However, this is obtained at the cost of severe degradation in certain quality metrics, such as increase of parameter variability, strong degradation of device matching, and increase in leakage currents including gate leakage, stronger short-channel effects (weak-inversion slope reduction, drain-induced barrier lowering, etc), ever lower supply voltage, novel degradation mechanisms and increasing reliability constraints. The profound changes in the device structure that are required to mitigate or eventually circumvent all these degradations will obviously have a significant impact on the way circuits, and particularly analog and RF circuits, have to be designed. It is therefore crucial to fully understand the operation and limitations of these devices in order to design robust digital, analog and RF circuits. In the next decade, the challenges to the semiconductor industry and the applications it supports will lie not so much in realizing smaller and faster transistors as in how to make the best out of the billions of transistors per chip we already have. Understanding how to handle complexity in mixed signal embedded systems is therefore crucial for the next generation of applications that deal with health, microsystems and communications. How to partition system functionality into digital, analog and RF or sensor realizations on a system on chip optimally is one of the key topics that will impact the era of nano CMOS technologies. This project investigates the challenges in mixed signal platforms, such as those embedded in biomedical electronics, micro-systems, sensor networks and wireless communications, from both device and systems perspective. Demonstrators will be developed that cover generic sensor interface/data acquisition, passive telemetry, wireless body area network, wireless sensor networking and wireless wide area networks. The achievements will benefit other Nano-Tera projects focusing on the sensor/actuator side of microsystems, as well as wireless communications SoCs that will challenge the state-of-the-art in integration level, versatility and sophistication of nano CMOS systems.

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    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Nano & Tera Systems

    Prof. Q. Huang, ETHZ, Dr. C. Dehollain, EPFL, Prof. C. Enz, CSEM Bern, 30 May 2013

    Outline
    Motivation & Overview Underlying Technologies Result Highlights Demonstrators Conclusions

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Introduction

    The Internet of Things


    Collection of physical devices talking to one another without human intervention introduce intelligence into networked systems

    Hearing aids Cardiac implants

    Cochlear implants

    Insulin pumps

    Health Care: Patient Monitoring during Emergency

    Internet

    Underlying Circuit Technologies


    Long distance link Intermediate node with RF Short distance link Sensor front-end with RF
    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Patient Monitor

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    In-Patient: Medical Cost and Quality of Care

    Cardiovascular Diseases: No.1 Cause of Death Globally Post Surgery: Huge Equipment Gap between ICU and PostOperative Ward Undetected Hypoxia Often Leads to Fibrillation ECG and Oxygen Saturation Provide Crucial Indicators Wearable Monitor Can Make a Substantial Difference
    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Improving Quality Through Nano & Tera

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Clinical Equipment Current Future

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Underlying Technology: Interface and Radio Link

    Short distance link(s) with concentrator node

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Underlying Technology: Long Range Radio Link

    Direct long distance link if necessary

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Sensor Node: Placitus Underlying Technologies


    MEMS
    SILICON RESONATOR Au-Sn ELECTRODES FBAR & ALN Au-Sn

    Multi-channel, versatile front-end for biomedical signals (ETHZ)

    CMOS SOC IC

    Ultra-low power short distance radio technology (CSEM): - MEMS-based for critical elements - functionality with deep sub-micron CMOS

    Placitus generic sensor node

    Ultra-low-power ADC for implantable sensor (EPFL) Portfolio of circuits for cellular communication (ETHZ): - Dedicated base-band digital signal processing - Multi-standard ADCs - High quality synthesizers

    Implantable sensor rectifier for remote powering (EPFL)

    Low-power data transmitter for remote powered node (EPFL)

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Some of the Challenges


    Electrode-Skin Interface Generates Offset Voltage Patients Required To Stay Still During Measurements At Odds with Flexibility Desired by Ambulatory Applications Mains Interference Also Spoils the Signal

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Artifacts and Interferences

    5 mV

    60 seconds
    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Sensor Interface: Chip Architecture


    Variable gain ranging between 8 and 2048 50mV maximum signal swing (min. gain) Measured up to 66dB SFDR

    Signal

    30 March 2012

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Signal Processing: Mains Interference Cancellation


    Mains interference cancellation by
    subtraction of an estimation of the 50 Hz interference signal

    No distortion of the signal itself

    30 March 2012

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Offset and Interference Cancellation

    30 March 2012

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    IC-Microphotograph
    Data Acquistion ASIC CEREBRO:

    Input Channels Analog Front-End


    (Amplifier)

    Multiplexer Digital Filters ADC

    30 March 2012

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Short-range Wireless Communication

    Ultra-low Power and Ultra-miniaturized Radio


    CSEM focuses on the design and implementation of a ultra-low power and highly miniaturized radio for short range wireless communication taking advantage of MEMS devices More specifically on the following:
    MEMS-based radio facilitating miniaturized and low power solutions Deep-submicron RF-CMOS radio

    MEMS
    SILICON RESONATOR Au-Sn ELECTRODES FBAR & ALN Au-Sn

    CMOS SOC IC

    MEMS-based Radio

    Innovative MEMS-based TRX in 65nm CMOS


    Investigating novel TRX architectures

    Based on BAW resonator (no XTAL) Instantly on TX (settling time <5s) DDFS approach True fractional divider based on ILRO Fractional divider (0.2 step) validated 14dB QN reduction in mod. Higher BW PLL for higher bit rate TX characterization yet to be done

    Characterization of testchip ongoing


    True fractional divider in PLL submitted to ESSCIRC Sept 2013 Low power 8Mbps BAW-based TX to be submitted to ISSCC 2014

    Short-range Wireless Communication

    icyTRX: Ultra-low power 2.4 GHz 90nm Transceiver


    Ultra low-power
    1.2V supply Rx 7mA Tx 9mA (-1dBm) For BT-LE, Zigbee, proprietary protocols

    Ease of production and use


    Standard digital 90nm CMOS

    Cost effective: small analog area No external matching components

    Excellent performances -95dBm sensitivity at 1Mbps Innovative PLL, low-power, up to 2Mb/s Optimized tiny inductors

    Internal RF matching scheme

    Short-range Wireless Communication

    Receiver and transmitter characterization


    RX sensitivity measurement TX output spectrum

    To be presented at RFIC June 2013

    - - BLE mask --- carrier --- GFSK (1Mbps) --- MSK (1Mbps)

    Challenges of the Long-Range Wireless Link

    Multi-Mode 4G/3G/2G
    ADC 1/N DFE

    Complexity of mixed-signal SoCs

    LTE 20MHz LTE 15MHz LTE 10MHz LTE 5MHz WCDMA LTE 3MHz TD-SCDMA LTE 1.4MHz GSM/EDGE 0123456789 BW MHz

    DAC

    modem antenna

    40+ Service Bands!

    SAW-less for Miniaturization


    SAW LNA SAW PA XCVR

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    High linearity

    Low noise

    21 Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    SDR Receive & Transmit Filters


    Multi Band Multi Mode Transmit Filter

    Receiver Filter Measurements Multi Band Multi Mode Receive Filter

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Highly Integrated 4G RF Transceiver


    RF Subsystem Supporting Quad Mode Multi Slot TRX Measurements

    E UT RA /LT E Freq: Mode: 782 MHz UL FDD, 50 RB (10 MHz), Normal (CP ) T RG : FREE RUN Ref 27.7 dBm Meas Setup: Sync State: RF Att/El 5.00 / 25.00 dB 1 TX x 1 RX OK Ext. A tt: C apture Time: Frame 3 O f 6 (1) CW 0.3 dB 20.1 ms

    CO NTINUO US

    A C apture Memory (dBm)

    22 12 2 -8 -18 -28
    E UT RA /LT E Freq: Mode: 0 Hz TRG : FREE RUN Meas Setup: 1 TX x 1 RX OK Ext. A tt: Capture Time: Frame 1 O f 1 (1) 21.2 dB 40.1 ms

    Subframe Start Offset Subframe Selection

    7.013 ms All

    -38 -48 -58 0.0 ms


    B C ons tellation Diagram

    DL TDD, 100 RB (20 MHz), Normal (C P) Sync State:

    C O NTINUO US A

    Baseband A nalog 50 Ohm

    C onstellation Diagram

    Points Meas. 6726 Selection Mod:64QAM

    2.0 ms/div Points Meas. 66240 Selection Mod:16QAM

    20.1 ms

    1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 -0.5 -1.0 -1.5 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5


    A V MI PK B C hannel Flatnes s (dB)

    1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 -0.5 -1.0 -1.5 -5 -4


    Running ...

    -3

    -2

    -1

    4.8 3.6 2.4 30 May 2013 Bern,

    Date: 21.JUN.2012

    17:36:29

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Demonstrators at This NT Phase I Final Meeting


    ETH Zurich

    Handheld (Pocket-able) Wireless Device for ECG and Oximetry Bluetooth Low Energy Device Relaying Temperature Data

    CSEM

    Incorporating Chips Developed in This Project

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Reminder: Clinical Instrument in Use Today

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    PlaCitus Demonstrator After Year One

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    BlueBox: PlaCitus Demonstrator Now

    Integration of ECG/EEG/Pulse-Oximetry in Hardware


    27

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Delivery to Unispital ZH

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Clinical Quality on the Move!

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    29

    Dissemination
    PlaCitus

    Stand at Treffpunkt Science City April 2013, Zurich

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    Treffpunkt Science City


    Hundreds of Visitors Old and Young Enthusiastic Response

    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

    31

    Concluding Remarks
    Aging Population and Geo-Economical Re-alignment
    Present Many (Grand) Challenges

    Technical Revolutions in the Internet, the Wireless, Smart


    Phones, WSN, Herald Great Opportunities

    Pervasive Personalized Medicine May Just Constitute the


    First Wave of the Internet of Things

    PlaCitus Investigated the Underlying Technologies That Will


    Pave the Way

    For Promising Exploitation and Phase II Projects


    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

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    Comparison to Existing Holter ECG Mortara H3+ System


    3 channel ECG 48h recording

    IMEC Holst Center single channel ECG 7d recording WearMeSoC Platform 8 channel ECG/EEG/ Real time monitoring Recording
    Bern, 30 May 2013

    Platform Circuit Technology Underlying Heterogeneous Systems (PlaCiTUS)

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