Title :
Digital rosetta stone: A sealed permanent memory with inductive-coupling power and data link
Author :
Yuxiang, Yuan ; Miura, Noriyuki ; Imai, Shigeki ; Ochi, Hiroyuki ; Kuroda, Tadahiro
Author_Institution :
Keio University, Japan
Abstract :
A permanent memory system is prototyped in 0.18µm CMOS. Data is stored in MROM, and stacked wafers are completely sealed to avoid erosion. Power and data links are provided by inductive coupling. Interleaved power and data transmission eliminates interference. From a distance of 0.2mm, 56mW is delivered with a ripple of 33.6mV. A data rate of over 150Mb/s with BER ≪ 10−12 is achieved.
Keywords :
Circuits; Clocks; Data communication; Information retrieval; Power generation; Registers; Semiconductor device measurement; Signal generators; Virtual colonoscopy; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Circuits, 2009 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto, Japan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3307-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-86348-001-8