A 32 nm SoC With Dual Core ATOM Processor and RF WiFi Transceiver

Author

Lakdawala, Hasnain ; Schaecher, M. ; Fu, Chuancheng ; Limaye, Rhishikesh ; Duster, J. ; Tan, Yongdong ; Balankutty, Ajay ; Alpman, Erkan ; Lee, C.C. ; Nguyen, K.M. ; Lee, Hongseok ; Ravi, Adit ; Suzuki, Satoshi ; Carlton, B.R. ; Kim, Hak S. ; Verhelst, Ma

Author_Institution

Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA

Volume

48

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

103

Abstract

An × 86 standard operating system compliant System-on-Chip (SoC) with a dual core ATOM processor and a custom interconnect fabric to enable modular design is presented. The 32 nm SoC includes integrated PCI-e Gen 2, DDR3, legacy I/O, voltage regulators, clock generation, power management, memory controller and RF portion of a WiFi transceiver in a 32 nm high-k/metal-gate RF CMOS process with high resistivity substrate. The integrated RF transceiver for 2.4 GHz 802.11g operation achieves a receive sensitivity of -74 dBm, -8 dBm IIP3 and a transmit output power of 20.3 dBm (-25 dB EVM) at 14% TX RF efficiency.

Keywords

radio transceivers; system-on-chip; voltage regulators; wireless LAN; RF WiFi transceiver; RF portion; SoC; clock generation; dual core ATOM processor; interconnect fabric; memory controller; power management; standard operating system compliant; voltage regulators; wavelength 32 nm; Clocks; Fabrics; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IP networks; Radio frequency; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; CMOS low noise amplifier; CMOS power amplifier; Clock generation; RF circuit design; network on chip; system fabric; system on chip;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2012.2222812

Filename

6375769