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A low-cost wireless interface with no external antenna and crystal oscillator for cm-range contactless testing

DAC '11: Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference

Pages 771 - 776

https://doi.org/10.1145/2024724.2024897

Published: 05 June 2011 Publication History

Abstract

This work presents a low-cost wireless system design that serves as an interface to support the SoC with contactless testability feature. The communication hierarchy includes PHY, MAC, data exchange, and test wrapper functions. The wireless does not require external antennae and crystal reference, and therefore minimize the setup cost. The embedded all-digital timing generation achieves robust performance in the noisy environment. The whole wireless system occupies a small area. In a 0.18μm device-under-test, the active area of wireless front-end is 0.14mm² and the gate count for digital processing is 112K. The maximum energy efficiency for uplink is 1.1nJ/bit and for downlink is 2.9nJ/bit when the wireless distance is set around 1cm. The prototype system includes test equipment and an SoC as the device-under-test. The SoC integrating logic, memory, and analog plug-in modules can be contactlessly tested. It is a low-cost platform controlled by a simple hand-held computer.

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DAC '11: Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference

June 2011

1055 pages

ISBN:9781450306362

DOI:10.1145/2024724

General Chair:
Leon Stok
IBM Corp., Hopewell Jct., NY
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Program Chairs:
Nikil Dutt
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA
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Soha Hassoun
Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

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