The 16^th International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

 October 17 & 18, 2018

University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Calit2

Keynotes

15^th International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

The Theme for This Year’s Conference Is “Secure and Intelligence Silicon Systems for Emerging Applications."

To present and/or exhibit at this highly-targeted International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, please contact: 

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Schedule & Program Summary

SoC Conference Day 1

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

UCI - Calit2 Building

  8:30 am - 6:00 pm

SoC Conference Day 2

Thursday, October 20, 2016

UCI - Calit2 Building

  8:30 am - 6:00 pm

SoC Tabletop Exhibit & Reception

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

UCI - Calit2 Building

  2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Microsemi

Keynote

Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D.
 

“What does a SoC look like in 2025? Who, what and Why”

Abstract:  The talk will focus on changes in technology, applications, and economics of the SoC ecosystem, and what it will likely mean for the realization of these devices in the next decade. It will examine the way process technology, packaging technology, design abstraction, and other such factors of true differentiation will push these core devices. These observations are intended to provide insights into where to position your company and career for the coming decade.

Bio: Jim Aralis has served as chief technology officer and vice president of R&D for Microsemi since January 2007. He has more than 30 years experience in developing custom analog device and process technologies, analog and mixed-signal ICs and systems, and CAD systems.  Jim played a key role in transitioning Microsemi to a virtually fabless model, supporting multiple process technologies including, high voltage and high power BCD/CMOS, high power high integration CMOS, GaAs, SiGe, IPD, RF CMOS SoI, GaN, SiC, and several high-density packaging technologies.  From 2000 to 2007, Jim established and served as senior design director of Maxim Integrated Product’s engineering center in Irvine, Calif. Before that, he spent 7 years with Texas Instruments/ Silicon Systems as mixed-signal design head and senior principal engineer. Additional experience includes 11 years with Hughes Aircraft Company in positions of increasing responsibility including senior scientist.  Jim earned a bachelor of science degree in Math Applied Science and Physics and a master of science in electrical engineering from UCLA. He holds 9 patents for circuit and system design.

IBM

Dr. Daniel Worledge, Distinguished Research Staff Member,  Senior Manager, MRAM.
 

"Spin Torque MRAM." 

Abstract: Spin-Transfer-Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) possesses a unique combination of high speed, high endurance, non-volatility, and small cell size. Among the emerging new memory technologies, including phase change memory, resistive random access memory, and conductive bridging random access memory, Spin Torque MRAM is the only candidate with the potential for unlimited endurance, since no atoms are moved during writing. This makes it the only potential candidate for use as a non-volatile working memory. Write current largely determines the cost of Spin Torque MRAM, since the transistor and hence cell area must be sized large enough to source the write current. This talk will give a brief overview of Spin Torque MRAM, including potential applications and materials challenges. I will then review the discovery of interface perpendicular anisotropy in the Ta|CoFeB|MgO system at IBM and the subsequent perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions which were developed using it, including demonstration of reliable, high speed spin-torque writing, and results on scaling down to 20 nm. Recent experimental results showing low switching current with 10 ns pulses and theoretical predictions for further lowering the switching current will also be shown.
 

Bio: Dr.Daniel C. Worledge IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center
Dr. Worledge received a BA with a double major in Physics and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He then received a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2000, with a thesis on spin-polarized tunneling in oxide ferromagnets. After joining the Physical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a Post-doc in 2000, he became a Research Staff Member in 2001, developing fast turn-around measurement methods for magnetic tunnel junctions, including Current-in-Plane Tunneling. In 2003, Dr. Worledge became the manager of the MRAM Materials and Devices group, and in 2013 he became Senior Manager of MRAM. He has worked on developing Toggle and then Spin Torque MRAM, including developing new perpendicular magnetic materials. His current research interests include magnetic devices and their behavior at small dimensions, and new magnetic devices for logic applications.

University of California, Los Angeles.

Keynote

Dr. Subramanian S. Iyer, Distinguished Chancellor's Professor
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA.
 

"A Different Approach to SoCs"

Abstract:  Moore’s law has so far relied on the aggressive scaling of CMOS silicon minimum features of over 1000X for over four decades, and recently, on the adoption of innovative features, such as Cu interconnects, low- dielectrics for interconnects, strained channels, and high- materials for gate dielectrics, resulting in a better power performance, cost per function, and density every generation. This has spawned a vibrant system-on-chip (SoC) approach, where progressively more function has been integrated on a single die. The integration of multiple dies on packages and boards has, however, scaled only modestly by a factor of three to five times. However, as SoC’s have become more complex and bigger, the NRE and time to market have both ballooned out of control leading to ever increasing consolidation. In this presentation, we show that with the apparent slowing down of semiconductor scaling and the advent of the Internet of Things, there is a focus on heterogeneous integration and system-level scaling. Packaging is undergoing a transformation that focuses on overall system performance and cost rather than on individual components. We propose ways in which this transformation can evolve to provide a significant value at the system level while providing a significantly lower barrier to entry compared with a chip-based SoC approach that is currently used. This transformation is already under way with 3-D stacking of dies and will evolve to make heterogeneous integration the backbone of a new SoC methodology.

Bio: Subramanian S. Iyer (Subu) is Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor and holds the Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles and Director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (CHIPS). He obtained his B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay, and Ph.D. from UCLA and joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown heights, NY and later moved to the IBM systems and Technology Group at Hopewell Junction, NY where he was appointed IBM Fellow and was till recently Director of the Systems Scaling Technology Department. His key technical contributions have been the development of the world’s first SiGe base HBT, Salicide, electrical Fuses, embedded DRAM and 45nm technology used at IBM and IBM’s development partners to make the first generation smartphone devices. He also was among the first to commercialize bonded SOI for CMOS applications through a start-up called SiBond LLC. He has published over 300 papers and holds over 70 patents. His current technical interests and work lie in the area of advanced packaging and three-dimensional integration for system-level scaling and new integration and computing paradigms as well as the long-term semiconductor and packaging roadmap for logic, memory and other devices including hardware security and supply-chain integrity. He has received several outstanding technical achievements and corporate awards at IBM. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EDS as well as its treasurer. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay and received the IEEE Daniel Noble Medal for emerging technologies in 2012. He also studies Sanskrit in his spare time.

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technologies

Keynote

Professor Tian Tong, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technologies.

"Challenges to Technical Issues of SiCMOS mmWave SoC Implementation." 

Abstract: Integrating an entire system on a single chip has been a dream since the earliest days when CMOS IC technologies invented. However, limited by practical technologies, during the most of the past years SoC referred to a fully digital system chip. Therefore most SOC researches were focused on how to implement a huge scale digital system, such as the rule for high density layout, heat sunk, testable design, clock delay control and so on. However, with the feature length of SiCMOS process achieving 90nm and below, it becomes possible for an RF system, and even an mmWave system, to be integrated into an SOC to construct ‘really’ full-function communication systems or  other electronic systems.  This raises many new problems to SOC research, since the design concerns on analog/RF/mmWave partition are sensitivity, noise, attenuation and etc which are much different from the design concerns on digital partition.  Moreover, implemented on the same chip, the two partitions (digital partition and mmWave partition) will interfere with each other due to the characteristics of the CMOS process.  In the presentation , four sections are to be presented, which are:

1. mmWave SOC, possibility and feasibility. In this section, the technologies supporting mmWave SOCs are discussed to demonstrate the possibility of mmWave system implementation. Meanwhile, the advantages of CMOS SOC solutions for mmWave systems are discussed from technical and market points of view.

2. Interference between each other: Substrate coupling issue and an engineering solution. Due to the special PN junction isolation, there is in fact a path with which all components are connected together. The path presents a good noise ( or harmonics) channel from the digital partition to the mmWave partition as well as between noise sources in components. In most cases, a guardring and/or an isolation gap are chosen as the solution. To avoid wasting wafer area, and to keep the noise or substrate harmonic level under control dynamically, an active method is presented. To validate the method, the harmonic characteristics of digital partitions will be analyzed and summarized.

3. Low resistance substrate issues for SiCMOS mmWave SOC and a possible solution.  Undoubtedly, SiCMOS low resistance substrate induces the most issues into SiCMOS mmWave SOC implementation. Compared to III-V or SOI technologies, CMOS substrates will present a higher noise floor, noise coupling, devices performance degradation and propagation attenuation. This presentation will try to analyze the issues and presents amounts of measurements to systematically discuss the method to improve the performance of devices and mmWave systems on chip.

4. A brief introduction of our mmWave SOC design of a single chip CMOS Radar.  Based on fundamental SOC researches, a single chip 35 GHz FMCW radar was designed and implemented in standard CMOS 65nm, which presents a 1.4GHz FMCW bandwidth, 120mW power consumption, and more than 30dB receiving gain. The principle integrated on-chip blocks include 35GHz VCO, FMCW generator, Mixer, LNA, on-chip PA, online calibration, SPI control port, power distribution and management, and IF amplifier and filters,  as well as chip protection.  The SOC chip presents users IQ- IF outputs, and a control port. Users do not need to handle any mmWave signal.   

The 35 GHz signal generated on chip.

The FMCW signal generated on Chip with 1.4GHz Bandwidth

The microphoto of the SOC Die.

Bio:

Professor Tian Tong,  obtained his bachelor’ s degree from microelectronics division of Huazhong University of science and technology in 1990, master’s degree from circuit and system division of  Xi’an University of electronic science in 1995 and Ph.D degree with the best honor of TCL from microelectronics division of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1998 , respectively. He took positions of post doc at National key lab of Radar signal processing in 1998-2000 and Nanyang technological University, Singapore in 2000-2001. Since 2001 he was with the Institute of Microeletronics, Singapore as a senior engineer and a senior research scientist, and was elected as the member of technical council and the member of invention council. He won the best research Prize of the Institute of Microeletronics, Singapore for 2003-2004.  From August 2004 he held a position of Associate Professor in Aalborg University, Danmark. And since March, 2010 he is with Shanghai institute of Microsystems and information technology as a Professor，and holds positions of adjunct professor in a few Chinese famous Universities in the meanwhile. He is associate editor of IEEE transaction on Circuit and system II. His research area covers analog/RF IC and system; Millimeter wave IC and system; RF system for Human body implant and human body assistance

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