Creating a National Asset in MixedSignal

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Creating a National Asset in Mixed-Signal RF
Design for Communication SystemsIndustry
Advisory Board MeetingMay 5, 2004Oregon
State UniversityElectrical Engineering and
Computer ScienceUn-Ku Moon, Co-Director of
CDADIC
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IC System Design is Our Focus
Cell phone example
Analog and mixed-signal technology
Antenna
Audio interface
Baseband conversion
RF
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Practical Thrust for IC System Design
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Research Challenges for Integration
Self correcting RF/analog design in scaled
technologies
Signal integrity Substrate coupling
Extensible communication architectures
Interconnects Packaging Passives
Low power DSP architectures
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Top Faculty Talent

• Gabor Temes
• Un-Ku Moon
• Terri Fiez
• Karti Mayaram
• Andreas Weisshaar
• Raghu Settaluri
• Huaping Liu
• Zhongfeng Wang

Self correcting RF/analog design in scaled
technologies
Substrate coupling
Signal integrity, interconnects, packaging,
passives
Extensible communication Low power DSP
architectures
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Significant Contribution to Mixed-Signal Research
by OSU Faculty

• Pioneering work in switched capacitor circuits
  and delta-sigma data converters
• Created first mixed device/circuit simulator
• Invented widely used algorithm for smart
  calibration of DACs
• Developing efficient substrate coupling tool for
  systems on a chip
• Pioneered comprehensive methodology for efficient
  modeling of on-chip interconnects, spiral
  inductors, embedded passives

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Why Oregon State is Recognized

• Top quality faculty
• More than 500 journal and conference publications
• More than 12 editors/associate editors
• More than 5 books and 13 books chapters
• 3 prestigious NSF Career/Young Investigators, 1
  Fellow of IEEE
• Top quality graduate students
• Over 200 graduate students graduated in
  mixed-signal integration
• 3 Nationally Awarded Graduate Fellowships
  (currently)
• Strong external collaboration
• MIT, Illinois, Stanford, Berkeley, U Washington,
  and others
• National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Analog
  Devices, Intel, Cypress Semiconductor, AKM,
  Boeing, SRC, CDADIC, Crystal Semiconductor,
  Motorola, DARPA, AFRL, Honeywell, Tektronix,
  Sandia National Labs, Cadence, and others

OSU has one of the nations leading
research programs on analog and mixed-signal
design. Dave Hodges, former Dean of
Engineering, UC Berkeley
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Mixed-Signal Research Growth
Pursuing 2 Additional Top Mixed Signal Faculty
to Establish World Class Group
2.5M
Hired VLSI DSP Expert
2M
Established CRIME Lab
1.5M
First Grant Awarded to TEAM
1M
Hired Two Senior Faculty
Hired Communication System Expert Began Pursuing
System On a Chip Research
0.5M
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Research Expenditures By Year
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Fully Equipped Lab FacilitiesCRiME
(Collaborative Research in Microelectronics) Lab

• DC to 26GHz Probing Characterization
• Full mixed-signal test capability
• Mobile, WLAN, WPAN test facility
• Comprehensive simulation including Cadence,
  Mentor, Agilent, Synopsys

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What is CDADIC?(NSF Center for Design of
Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits)
To advance the analysis, design and
methodologies of analog-digital integrated
circuits and systems through research and
education
NSF

• NSF, 4 universities, 20 companies
• 2 year scope research
• Industry-driven research
• Technology transfer

Member Companies
Member Universities

• Total CDADIC research funding ? 600-800K per
  year
• (About 1/2 of total goes to Oregon State)
• 10 students at OSU are being supported by CDADIC
  this year

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Our CRiME Lab Today

• Over 50 graduate students
• Recent results
• 0.9-V 12mW 2MSPS 81dB SFDR algorithmic ADC
• 1-V 10-MHz clock-rate 13-bit CMOS ?S modulator
  using unity-gain-reset op amps
• 14-bit ?? ADC with 8? OSR and 4-MHz conversion
  bandwidth in a 0.18?m CMOS process
• Comparison of noise coupling in 2.4GHz LNA for
  heavily and lightly doped substrates
• Accurate simulation of phase noise in RF MEMs
  VCOs
• Development of vialess multi-level compact
  bandpass filters with excellent harmonic
  suppression
• New compact modeling methodology for on-chip
  inductors, and passive components
• Ultra-low power optical wireless sensor system