FIVR — Fully integrated voltage regulators on 4th generation Intel® Core™ SoCs

Author

Burton, Edward A. ; Schrom, Gerhard ; Paillet, Fabrice ; Douglas, James ; Lambert, William J. ; Radhakrishnan, Krishnaja ; Hill, Michael J.

Author_Institution

CCDO, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

16-20 March 2014

Firstpage

432

Lastpage

439

Abstract

Intel´s® 4th generation Core™ microprocessors are powered by Fully Integrated Voltage Regulators (FIVR). These 140 MHz multi-phase buck regulators are integrated into the 22nm processor die, and feature up to 80 MHz unity gain bandwidth, non-magnetic package trace inductors and on-die MIM capacitors. FIVRs are highly configurable, allowing them to power a wide range of products from 3W fanless tablets to 300W servers. FIVR helps enable 50% or more battery life improvements for mobile products and more than doubles the peak power available for burst workloads.

Keywords

MIM devices; capacitors; electronics packaging; inductors; microprocessor chips; system-on-chip; voltage regulators; 4th generation intel core SoC; 4th generation intel core microprocessor; FIVR; fanless tablet; frequency 140 MHz; fully integrated voltage regulator; mobile product; multiphase buck regulator; nonmagnetic package trace inductor; on-die MIM capacitor; power 3 W to 300 W; size 22 nm; unity gain bandwidth; Current measurement; Inductors; Logic gates; Microprocessors; Regulators; Voltage control; Voltage measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2014 Twenty-Ninth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Worth, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2014.6803344

Filename

6803344