Active Suppression of Substrate Noise in CMOS Integrated Circuits

Author

Blakiewicz, G.

Author_Institution

Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 June 2007

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

224

Abstract

Noise generated by digital sub-circuits becomes serious problem in fast mixed signal systems on chip (SoC). Digitally generated noise corrupts supply voltages and is propagated inside a silicon substrate as so called substrate noise. A discussion and simplified analysis of passive and active circuits for substrate noise suppression is presented in this paper. An example of an active circuit is design and tested by means of simulations. The achieved results show higher efficiency of the active circuits in substrate noise attenuation in comparison to known passive solutions.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated circuit noise; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; silicon; substrates; system-on-chip; CMOS integrated circuits; active circuits; digital subcircuits; passive circuits; silicon substrate; substrate noise attenuation; substrate noise suppression; systems on chip; Active circuits; Active noise reduction; CMOS integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Integrated circuit noise; Noise generators; Signal generators; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; Voltage; CMOS; Integrated circuits; SoC; Substrate noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2007. MIXDES '07. 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ciechocinek

Print_ISBN

83-922632-9-4

Electronic_ISBN

83-922632-9-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2007.4286154

Filename

4286154