Title
A 5Gb/s/pin 16Gb LPDDR4/4X Reconfigurable SDRAM with Voltage-High Keeper and a Prediction-based Fast-tracking ZQ Calibration
Abstract
A 5Gb/s/pin 16Gb LPDDR4/4X reconfigurable SDRAM with a self-mode detection scheme, a voltage-high keeper (VHK) for un-terminated load and a prediction-based fast-tracking ZQ algorithm is implemented in 10nm class (2nd generation) DRAM process. Providing a reconfigurable LVSTL with a mode detection scheme to support two different DRAM interface standards (LPDDR4/4X) depending on I/O supply voltage (VDDQ), a proposed design can maintain the system compatibility and longevity to the legacy controller and the PHY structure. The VHK for LPDDR4 enables the 3.2Gb/s operation in the un-terminated load similar to LPDDR4X by alleviating the inter symbol interference (ISI) through the controlled leakage current. In a ZQ calibration, the proposed ZQ algorithm achieves fast ZQ code searching, the calibration time can be reduced by 30% in PVT variation. Moreover, an internal ZQ calibration (IZQC) is newly adopted to minimize the variation of the driver strength to PVT variation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.23919/VLSIC.2019.8778102
2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
Keywords
Field
DocType
voltage-high keeper,self-mode detection scheme,prediction-based fast-tracking ZQ algorithm,reconfigurable LVSTL,fast ZQ code searching,internal ZQ calibration,DRAM interface standards,class DRAM process,un-terminated load,2nd generation DRAM process,I/O supply voltage,VDDQ,legacy controller,PHY structure,controlled leakage current,PVT variation,driver strength,size 10.0 nm,storage capacity 16 Gbit,bit rate 3.2 Gbit/s
Dram,Control theory,Leakage (electronics),Computer science,Voltage,Electronic engineering,Interference (wave propagation),PHY,Detector,Calibration
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2158-5601
978-1-7281-0914-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
24
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinseok Heo163.05
Kihan Kim200.34
Donghoon Lee315122.04
Chang-Kyo Lee433.52
daesik moon5163.87
Kiho Kim635536.32
Jin-Hyeok Baek701.01
Sung-Woo Yoon800.34
Hui-Kap Yang900.34
Kyung-Ryun Kim10112.32
Youngjae Kim1100.34
Bokgue Park1200.34
Sujin Park13446.56
Joung-Wook Moon1400.68
Jae-Hyung Lee1500.34
Yun-Sik Park1600.34
Soobong Jang1700.34
Seok-Hun Hyun1822.79
Hyuck-Joon Kwon1922.44
Junghwan Choi2027933.08
Young-Soo Sohn2111521.21
Seung-Jun Bae2216732.40
Kwang-Il Park2316325.68
Jung-Bae Lee2417917.70