A 133 MHz radiation-hardened delay-locked loop

Rajat Sengupta, Bert Vermeire, Lawrence T. Clark, Bertan Bakkaloglu

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Abstract

A radiation hardened by a design delay-locked loop (DLL) architecture for quadrature phase clock generation in a 133 MHz DDR memory designed on a foundry 0.13 μ m fabrication process is presented. The DLL employs an all-digital architecture, including a hardened digital integrator using error-correction logic. The area and power overhead due to the hardening are 32% and 37%, respectively. Simulation results demonstrate that the all-digital DLL is hardened against single-event transients with no timing impact due to hardening. Layout techniques to make the DLL hardened to multiple bit upsets are also presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5658008
Pages (from-to)3626-3633
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume57
Issue number6 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2010

Keywords

  • Charge pump
  • delay-locked loop (DLL)
  • jitter phase-locked loop (PLL)
  • single-event transients (SETs)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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