Title :
Smart card circuits in SOI technology
Author :
Neve, Amaury ; Flandre, Denis ; Quisquater, Jean-Jacques
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Microelectron., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium
Abstract :
Smart cards have recently evolved towards very complex systems-on-a-chip, thereby opening new opportunities and creating new demands on fabrication technologies for higher integration density as well as lower power, lower voltage operation. In this work, we investigated the feasibility of realizing the blocks of a smart card chip in SOI technology. In the first part of the paper, we discuss the potential of circuit blocks for which a realization already exists in SOI. Secondly, we present the design and test of two circuit blocks not yet reported in SOI
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit testing; low-power electronics; silicon-on-insulator; smart cards; SOI CMOS technology; SOI technology; Si-SiO2; circuit block design; circuit block test; circuit blocks; fabrication technologies; integration density; low power/low voltage operation; smart card chip blocks; smart card circuits; smart cards; systems-on-a-chip; Charge pumps; Circuit testing; Clocks; Data security; EPROM; Noise level; Nonvolatile memory; Random number generation; Smart cards; Threshold voltage;
Conference_Titel :
SOI Conference, 2000 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Wakefield, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6389-2
DOI :
10.1109/SOI.2000.892763
