On-chip Real-Time Power Supply Noise Detector

Author

Sehgal, Anuja ; Song, Peilin ; Jenkins, Keith A.

Author_Institution

IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

383

Abstract

A new on-chip real-time noise detector that can be used for detecting voltage surges and droops on the internal power supply of VSLI circuits is presented. The noise detector is compact, and has the ability of detecting dc levels and high frequency on-chip transients of the power supply voltage. The detector has been implemented in a 90 nm CMOS technology, and has an area of 50times100 mum². The measured results show that the detector can detect overshoots and undershoots of less than 1 ns, and as small as 20 mV

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; integrated circuit measurement; integrated circuit noise; noise measurement; power supply circuits; sensors; surges; transients; 100 micron; 50 micron; 90 nm; CMOS technology; VSLI circuits; dc levels; droops; internal power supply; on-chip transients; power supply noise; real-time noise detector; voltage surges; CMOS technology; Circuit noise; Circuit testing; Detectors; Integrated circuit noise; Power supplies; Sensor systems; System-on-a-chip; Temperature sensors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ESSCIRC 2006. Proceedings of the 32nd European

Conference_Location

Montreux

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0303-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIR.2006.307610

Filename

4099783