Silego Technology Mike Noonen Sales & Business Development CEO - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Silego Technology Mike Noonen Sales & Business Development CEO - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Under the Hood: Chips Powering Next-Gen IoT Devices Mike Noonen Silego Technology Mike Noonen Sales & Business Development CEO (interim) & Board Director Founder & Chairman, Silicon Catalyst EE Times / EDN Start-up of the Year
Mike Noonen
Sales & Business Development CEO (interim) & Board Director Founder & Chairman, Silicon Catalyst EE Times / EDN Start-up of the Year EVP, Worldwide Sales, Marketing, Design, & Products, GlobalFoundries EVP, Global Sales & Marketing, NXP Semiconductors SVP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, National Semiconductor Global Semiconductor Alliance, Board of Directors
Ambiq Micro Subthreshold Logic
Subthreshold operation can reduce energy usage by up to 13X
Energy (E) consumed is directly proportional to the square of the voltage (V) used:
E ~ V2
1.8 V 0.5 V Voltage Time
1 1
ENERGY ENERGY
Conventional Semiconductors
1.8 V 0.5 V Voltage Time
1 1
ENERGY ENERGY
Ambiq’s SPOT approach
Threshold Voltage
ENERGYSAVINGS
Active Mode 30µA/MHz Sleep Mode 100nA ARM Cortex- M4F core
Source: Ambiq Micro Corporate Overview
GlobalFoundries FDSOI
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- Ultra-thin Buried
Oxide Insulator Fully Depleted Channel for Low Leakage
FD-SOI
Planar process similar to bulk
70% lower power than 28HKMG 20% smaller die than 28nm bulk planar 20% lower die cost than 16/14nm
Frequency vs. Total Power
1.80 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 1.40
Total Power (normalized) Freq. (normalized)
- 50% lower power at
same frequency
- 40% faster
performance at same power
- Low Vdd operation
(down to 0.4 volts)
- FBB Advantage:
Software-controlled body-bias enables dynamic tradeoffs between power, performance and leakage
30% Faster 50% Less Power 40% Faster 50% Less Power
Source: GF 22FDX Intro
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Next Generation Device Specification
- CPU Freq. 1.5+ GHz Vdd 0.6v
- SRAM up to 16Mb
- -25C to +85C
- Integration Path: BLE, WiFi, PMIC
Smart Watch User Case 40LP 28SLP FinFET 22FDX 22FDX +FBB
- Freq. @ ISO power
1 1.5 2.8
2.6 3.0
Battery Life (Days) 4.6 6.4 11.6
13.9 20.0
40nm wearable device today
4X battery life increase with higher performance
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- 22FDX Case Study – Smart Watch
Source: GF 22FDX Intro
Silego Configurable Mixed-Signal ICs
1000 Customer Designs Completed ~2.5B Units Shipped
Configurable Mixed-Signal is a Better Way To Design Wearable & IoT Devices
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1.0 x 1.2 mm STQFN 8-pin package 1.6 x 1.6 mm STQFN 12-pin package 1.6 x 2.0 mm STQFN 14-pin package 1.6 x 2.5 mm STQFN 14-pin package 2.0 x 3.0 mm STQFN 20-pin package 2.0 x 2.2 mm STQFN 14-pin package
Gree ™
GreenPAK is ideal for
Functional replacement of popular mixed-signal standard products, often in combination. Providing reliable hardware safety and reset functions for software coded devices, such as SoCs and Microcontrollers.
Easy Development Tools
GUI similar to schematic capture Complete Hardware Dev Kit
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SLG4K123