All-digital low-dropout regulator with adaptive control and reduced dynamic stability for digital load circuits

SB Nasir, S Gangopadhyay… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digitally implementable LDOs embedded within digital functional units augment their analog
counterparts for ultrafine-grained power management in digital ICs. Digital load circuits …

A fully integrated digital LDO with built-in adaptive sampling and active voltage positioning using a beat-frequency quantizer

S Kundu, M Liu, SJ Wen, R Wong… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a fully integrated digital low-dropout (DLDO) regulator using a beat-
frequency (BF) quantizer implemented in a 65-nm low power (LP) CMOS technology. A time …

Postsilicon voltage guard-band reduction in a 22 nm graphics execution core using adaptive voltage scaling and dynamic power gating

M Cho, ST Kim, C Tokunaga… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In high volume manufacturing, conventional approach to deal with inverse-temperature
dependence (ITD) and aging is to add a post silicon flat voltage guard band to all dies based …

20.4 An output-capacitor-free analog-assisted digital low-dropout regulator with tri-loop control

M Huang, Y Lu, U Seng-Pan… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dropout regulators (LDOs) are widely distributed in SoC designs to supply individual
voltage domains, and a digital LDO (DLDO) is favorable for its low-voltage operation and …

Enabling wide autonomous DVFS in a 22 nm graphics execution core using a digitally controlled fully integrated voltage regulator

ST Kim, YC Shih, K Mazumdar, R Jain… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A digitally-controlled fully integrated voltage regulator (IVR) enables wide autonomous
DVFS in a 22 nm graphics execution core. Part of the original power header is converted …

A nanosecond-transient fine-grained digital LDO with multi-step switching scheme and asynchronous adaptive pipeline control

F Yang, PKT Mok - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a multi-step switching scheme for a digital low dropout regulator
(DLDO) that emerges as a new way of achieving nanosecond-transient and fine-grained on …

A RISC-V vector processor with simultaneous-switching switched-capacitor DC–DC converters in 28 nm FDSOI

B Zimmer, Y Lee, A Puggelli, J Kwak… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work demonstrates a RISC-V vector microprocessor implemented in 28 nm FDSOI with
fully integrated simultaneous-switching switched-capacitor DC–DC (SC DC–DC) converters …

A RISC-V processor SoC with integrated power management at submicrosecond timescales in 28 nm FD-SOI

B Keller, M Cochet, B Zimmer, J Kwak… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC) with integrated voltage regulation,
adaptive clocking, and power management implemented in a 28 nm fully depleted silicon-on …

Wide-range many-core SoC design in scaled CMOS: Challenges and opportunities

S Vangal, S Paul, S Hsu, A Agarwal… - … Transactions on Very …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The system-on-chip (SoC) designs for future Internet of Things (IoT) systems, spanning client
platforms to cloud datacenters, need to deliver uncompromising and scalable performance …

An energy-efficient graphics processor featuring fine-grain DVFS with integrated voltage regulators, execution-unit turbo, and retentive sleep in 14nm tri-gate CMOS

P Meinerzhagen, C Tokunaga… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graphics workloads are highly dynamic in nature, using multi-threaded SIMD execution
units (EUs), fixed-function units, samplers, and media accelerators to provide ever …