Title :
A 32 nm SoC With Dual Core ATOM Processor and RF WiFi Transceiver
Author :
Lakdawala, Hasnain ; Schaecher, M. ; Fu, Chuancheng ; Limaye, Rhishikesh ; Duster, J. ; Tan, Yongdong ; Balankutty, Ajay ; Alpman, Erkan ; Lee, C.C. ; Nguyen, K.M. ; Lee, Hongseok ; Ravi, Adit ; Suzuki, Satoshi ; Carlton, B.R. ; Kim, Hak S. ; Verhelst, Ma
Author_Institution :
Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA
Abstract :
An × 86 standard operating system compliant System-on-Chip (SoC) with a dual core ATOM processor and a custom interconnect fabric to enable modular design is presented. The 32 nm SoC includes integrated PCI-e Gen 2, DDR3, legacy I/O, voltage regulators, clock generation, power management, memory controller and RF portion of a WiFi transceiver in a 32 nm high-k/metal-gate RF CMOS process with high resistivity substrate. The integrated RF transceiver for 2.4 GHz 802.11g operation achieves a receive sensitivity of -74 dBm, -8 dBm IIP3 and a transmit output power of 20.3 dBm (-25 dB EVM) at 14% TX RF efficiency.
Keywords :
radio transceivers; system-on-chip; voltage regulators; wireless LAN; RF WiFi transceiver; RF portion; SoC; clock generation; dual core ATOM processor; interconnect fabric; memory controller; power management; standard operating system compliant; voltage regulators; wavelength 32 nm; Clocks; Fabrics; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IP networks; Radio frequency; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; CMOS low noise amplifier; CMOS power amplifier; Clock generation; RF circuit design; network on chip; system fabric; system on chip;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSSC.2012.2222812
