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INFN interests to RD53 IP-BLOCK. Lino Demaria On behalf of Bari, (Milano), Padova , Pavia, (Perugia), Pisa, Torino. Introduction.
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INFN interests to RD53 IP-BLOCK Lino Demaria On behalf of Bari, (Milano), Padova, Pavia, (Perugia), Pisa, Torino L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Introduction • All the Italian groups in RD53 have their activity funded by the approved INFN project CHIPIX65. On top of RD53 we will be reviewed closely by INFN for the work we do and the results we obtain. • We decided to present to RD53 the interest of all the groups collectively. Few items find the interest of more groups, and there are area where one groups will be leading and other might help or give support. In general we will share the commitment of the work needed for all the IP-block of which INFN will take responsibility. • This will further enhance the probability of a successful result. PS: as specified by Jorgen in his e-mail, the IP-block relative to WG-Analog are not discussed here. L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Summary of main INFN interests • Main Interests of INFN groups on 15 out of 36 IP-blocks • Band Gap Reference (Pv) • 8-12 bit programmable biasing DAC (Ba) • 4-8 bit compact DAC for threshold adjust per pixel (To,Pv,Ba)* • 10-12 bit slow ADC for monitoring (Ba) • Low power Clock driver and clock receivers for pixel matrix (Pv) • PLL (Pd, Pi, To) • Voltage Control Oscillator (for time stamping) (Pd,Pi, To)* • Low / High speed SLVS driver (Pv,Pi, To) • High speed serializer for readout (Pi) • SRAM (for data storage either in pixel regions / EOC) (Mi) • DICE storage cell (Mi) • Standardized control and command interface (I2C, E-link) (Ba,Pi) • Standardized readout interface (Ba,Pi) • LDO (To,Pi) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Other potential INFN interests • Potential additional interest (6 out of 36) – depending also on how we decide to share the work in RD53: • Temperature / Radiation sensor (Pv, To) • Clock recovery and jitter filtering (Pi) • Programmable delay for sampling clock alignment (Pi) • SLVS receiver (Pi) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Few comments • The list of IP-block provided is a very good starting point but it might need some clarification, some blocks are ‘bigger’ than others: • For example: • VCO • needed inside the PLL – we assume is included there, right? • a VCO for fine-time stamping should be highly customized inside the Pixel • Serializer • It needs a PLL (therefore also a VCO) • There should be a good connection with who designs the PLL (or there might be some double-counting) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Typical PLL Typical serializer L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Slides on Single Items L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Band Gap reference (Pv) • State of the art at Pv: • Sub 1V operation bandgap voltage reference – 3 versions • BJT version • Diode version • MOS WI version • Layouts ready for the submission • Evaluate their performance and study their radiation hardness MOS in WI BJT Diodes L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
8-12 bit programmable biasing DAC (Ba) • Previousexperience of Bari: • Rad-hard 8-bit DAC for the slow control of the pixel chip of ALICE (250 nm CMOS) • In progress: VFAT3, a new FE chip for GEM detectors for the upgrade of CMS muon detector (130 nm CMOS). Submission on Feb. 2014 • Calibration & Bias circuitry, 8-bit thermometer coded current steering DAC, Constant Fraction Discriminator • Thermometer coded DAC: 255 “identical” unit current sources connected to output node through switches controlled by a binary-to-thermometer decoder • monotonicity is guaranteed • matching conditions more relaxed common centroid is not required 170 m I0 I0 I0 I0 I0 S0 S1 S2 S3 S254 Iout L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013 140 m
4-8 bit compact DAC for threshold adjust per pixel • In our opinion should be strongly integrated in the VFE and therefore the design is highly customized. It will be followed by Pv, Tothat are strongly involved in the VFE • Bari could help L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
10-12 bit slow ADC for monitoring (Ba) • Previousexperience of Bari: • Two-step 8-bit ADC with max. conversion speed: 20 MS/s (0.35 m CMOS) • Reference generator: resistor ladder (same as full flash ADC) • “Coarse” (MSBs) conversion phase: the “coarse” refs Vrc are compared with Vin and the “fine” refs Vrf are selected • “Fine” (LSBs) conversion phase: the selected Vrf’s are compared with Vin. • Correction logic for both “bubble” errors and wrong “fine” threshold selection • Boost circuits for the clock phases • applied to the CMOS switches • Final ADC structure: two ADCs, • operated in “interleaved” mode • Total power consumption: 22.4mW • Maximum conversion speed 20MS/s Test chip (2.18 x 1.74 mm2) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
PLL and VCO design expertise (Pd, Pi, To) • Padovagroup (University of Padova – Engineering department) • Research group expertise: • RF design, Baseband design, Testing and characterization • Radiation testing and qualification (Engineering department) • Design of a 6.5-18.4 GHz PLL in 65nm CMOS for the local oscillator (LO) generation in a short-range radar front-end (M. Caruso et al., proceedings of ESSCIRC 2013) • Design of a 13-15 GHz, LC tank VCO for the local oscillator (LO) signal of a GSM transceiver in 65nm CMOS (S. dalToso et al., IEEE Journal of Solid-StateCircuits, 2010) • Design of an LC tank VCO in 90nm CMOS for a fast-hopping LO generator operating between 6 and 9 GHz based on sub-harmonic injection locking (S. dalToso et al., IEEE Int. Solid-State Circ. Conf., 2008) • Pisa has expertise (see later) • Torino interested too L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
VCO for fine-time stamping • In our opinion should be strongly integrated in the VFE and therefore the design is highly customized. Interest of To to find solution for fine time-stamping in the VFE (as simple VCO) • Pd, Pi could help L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Low-Medium (High?) speed SLVS driver (Pv, To, Pi) • PAVIA • Design of low-voltage differential signaling driver + receiver with supply voltage of 1.2V (with only core transistors) • Present activity: • Design 1: 320MHz frequency operation with maximum power consumption=1.25 mW • Design 2: 640MHz frequency operation with maximum power consumption=2.5 mW • Schematics of the TX and RX were obtained by a merging of the UniBG and CERN version (in 130nm IBM) provided by Kostas • Torino • There are design in 130nm for Panda that goes to 1 GHz and could be translated in 65nm • Pisa is also interested L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Serializer (Pi) • Pisa • Based on experience on two ASICS designed in the IBM 130nm (2012-2013) Collaboration between INFN-PISA (Guido Magazzu) and UCSB (Physics Department and Electronic Engineering Department): Developments of radiation tolerant IP-cores for high speed serial links : • UCCF1 (submitted 2012) • UCCF2 (submission in early 2014) • Rescalingof the IP-cores into the TSMC 65nm technology since February 2014 (submission of the first test ASIC foreseen in fall 2014) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
UCFF1 – (Pisa) • High Speed (1 GHz) Serializer (SER) and Deserializer (DES) modules • Based on Standard Cells • Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) to protect against Single Event Effects (SEEs) • VCO (Center Frequency = GHz) controlled by a Radiation Tolerant Thermometric Controller (THC) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
UCFF2 (1) • PLL and Clock Data Recovery (CDR) with Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) to protect against Single Event Effects (SEEs) • Same Serializer (SER) and Deserializer (DES) modules used in UCFF1 L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
UCFF2 (2) • Clock Data Recovery • PLL with with x25 frequency multiplication (input frequency = 40MHz => output frequency = 1GHz) • Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) => It generates the 1 GHz clock for the Serializer • Charge Pump (CP) => It provides the control voltage to the VCO module • Frequency Divider (1/25) => It generates the local reference clock • Phase/Frequency Detector (PFD) => It compares the frequency and the phase of the input reference clock and of the local reference clock and it generates the control signals for the Charge Pump • VCO modules (3x) => Same power supply and control voltages used in the PLL • Low Drop-Out (LDO) regulator (providing power supply voltage to all the VCO modules) L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
DICE RAM Cell (Mi) • Interest of Milano (in CHIPIX65, applying for RD53) to develop radiation hard SRAM • array of 256x256 DICE RAM cells almost ready for integration. It comes from a work done in AIDA. Size of about 1.8x3.3 um2 • This could be used either in the PUC or in the EOC Schematics Layout V.1 L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Low power Clock driver and clock receivers for pixel (Pv) • Low-power architectures are required to meet the power budget constraint foreseen for the pixel matrix • We studied different techniques for distributing clock signal to the pixels • If a reduced voltage supply (lower than 1.2V) is not available, we simulated drivers able to reduce the clock swing to a predetermined value • It is desirable to reduce the swing as much as possible in order to reduce the power consumption -> although the recovery of the signals becomes increasingly difficult as the swing is reduced • We evaluated each architecture with the following parameters: • Total Power Consumption (TXs + RXs) • Skew • and compared the results with the performance of a conventional full swing buffer L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Standardized control and command interface (I2C, E-link) • Bari, Pisa • Slow control block that will be used in the VFAT3 chip • Only one E-port connection for data reading – trigger – Slow Control • Commands and responses data are multiplexed in the main bit-stream • HDLC is used as transport protocol • IPBus protocol V1.4 is used for generic command encoding L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013
Standardized readout interface (E-link) • Bari , Pisa interested L.Demaria - INFN IP-Block for RD53 - 18-dec-2013