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Design of Small-Area and High-Reliability 512-Bit EEPROM IP for UHF RFID Tag Chips

UHF RFID Tag Chip용 저면적·고신뢰성 512bit EEPROM IP 설계

  • Received : 2011.12.28
  • Accepted : 2012.02.01
  • Published : 2012.02.29
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Abstract

In this paper, small-area and high-reliability design techniques of a 512-bit EEPROM are designed for UHF RFID tag chips. For a small-area technique, there are a WL driver circuit simplifying its decoding logic and a VREF generator using a resistor divider instead of a BGR. The layout size of the designed 512-bit EEPROM IP with MagnaChip's $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM is $59.465{\mu}m{\times}366.76{\mu}m$ which is 16.7% smaller than the conventional counterpart. Also, we solve a problem of breaking 5V devices by keeping VDDP voltage constant since a boosted output from a DC-DC converter is made discharge to the common ground VSS instead of VDDP (=3.15V) in getting out of the write mode.

본 논문에서는 UHF RFID 태그 칩용 512bit EEPROM의 저면적 설계 기술과 고신뢰성 기술을 제안하였다. 저면적회로는 디코딩 로직(decoding logic)을 단순화한 WL 구동 회로, BGR 회로 대신 저항 분배기(resistor divider)를 이용한 VREF 발생회로이다. Magnachip $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM 공정을 이용하여 설계된 512bit EEPROM IP의 레이아웃 크기는 $59.465{\mu}m{\times}366.76{\mu}m$으로 기존 회로를 사용한 EEPROM 대비 16.7% 줄였다. 그리고 쓰기 모드(write mode)를 빠져나올 때 DC-DC 변환기(converter)에서 출력되는 부스팅된 출력전압을 VDDP(=3.15V)로 방전시키는 대신, 공통접지(common ground)인 VSS로 방전시키는 방식을 제안하여 VDDP 전압을 일정하게 유지함으로써 5V 소자가 파괴되는 문제를 해결하였다.

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