A 16-bit low-power microcontroller with monolithic MEMS-LC clocking

Author

Marsman, E.D. ; Senger, Robert M. ; McCorquodale, M.S. ; Guthaus, Matthew R. ; Ravindran, Rajiv A. ; Dasika, Ganesh S. ; Mahlke, Scott A. ; Brown, Richard B.

Author_Institution

Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 May 2005

Firstpage

624

Abstract

Low-power, single-chip integrated systems are prevailing in remote applications due to the increasing power and delay cost of inter-chip communication compared to on-chip computation. The paper describes the design and measured performance of a fully-functional digital core with a low-jitter, monolithic, MEMS-LC clock reference. This chip has been fabricated in TSMC´s 0.18 μm MM/RF bulk CMOS process. Maximum power consumption of the complete microsystem is 48.78 mW operating at 90 MHz with a 1.8 V power supply.

Keywords

clocks; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; microcontrollers; micromechanical devices; power consumption; 0.18 micron; 1.8 V; 48.78 mW; 90 MHz; CMOS process; digital core design; inter-chip communication; low-power microcontroller; monolithic MEMS-LC clocking; on-chip computation; power consumption; single-chip integrated systems; CMOS process; Clocks; Costs; Delay; Energy consumption; Microcontrollers; Power supplies; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kobe

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8834-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464665

Filename

1464665