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Low-cost 3D die stacking using near-field wireless communication.
This two-tier SoC, fabricated using a TSMC 65nm process, incorporates two Arm Cortex M0 CPU cores in addition to a wireless vertical AHB lite bus for inter-layer power and data transfer. The wireless AHB-Lite bus consists…
Taped-out in May 2018, ICL-Experimenter is the first in a series of Arm-ECS research centre test-chips designed to explore wireless 3D integration using inductive coupling links. The chip was fabricated in AMS 0.35um technology with two vertically stacked dies within each IC. This initial pr…
The first tape out of the nanoSoC Cortex M0 based SoC Reference Design. This reference design provides a simple microcontroller system appropriate to host and support the development and evaluation of research IP blocks or subsystems. It supports seamless transition from FPGA to physical silicon …
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The aim of this project is to define a mixed signal subsystem for the nanosoc reference design.
In order to interface with real-world signals in a digital SoC, an analog to digital conversion is needed. The mixed signal subsystem should be able to sample analog signals at a regular sampling rate, and transmit a digital representation of this signal to the rest of the nanosoc system.
Daniel Newbrook
A physical test environment is required for ASIC devices fabricated following tape out. The nanoSoC test board provides a complete test environment for ASIC designs based on the nanoSoC reference design and enables the showcase of any custom designs that utilise it. Reviewing the function of nanoSoC identifies a number of design criteria for the test board:
The Arm PL022 provides an interface for synchronous serial communication with peripheral devices connected to the SoC via the Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB). It supports a choice of interface operation, Motorola compatible Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), National Semiconductor Microwire, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interface. See the Techology page for details.