• DocumentCode
    549877
  • Title

    Measurement, analysis and improvement of supply noise in 3D ICs

  • Author

    Jain, Pulkit ; Jiao, Dong ; Wang, Xiaofei ; Kim, Chris H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-17 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    Supply noise measurements from a 3D IC have been presented for the first time. IR noise rather than Ldi/dt noise is shown to be dominant due to the fewer supply pins and the additional resistance from the through-silicon vias (TSVs). Kelvin probing for IR noise reveals that the effect of pins is significantly more than TSVs. A novel multi-story power delivery is demonstrated for a 393 kb SRAM suppressing the IR noise by 30-70%.
  • Keywords
    SRAM chips; integrated circuit noise; power supplies to apparatus; three-dimensional integrated circuits; 3D IC; IR noise; Kelvin probing; SRAM; TSV; supply noise measurements; through-silicon vias; Noise; Noise measurement; Random access memory; Resistance; Three dimensional displays; Through-silicon vias;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), 2011 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • ISSN
    2158-5601
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-175-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5986417