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[Solution] IoT chip electromagnetic simulation solution

Release date:2021-12-28Author source:KinghelmViews:623

Internet of Things Chip Market Overview

Internet of Things (IoT) has opened hundreds of billion Internet smart devices to communicate with each other. Only the total number of global networks has reached 12 billion in 2019. It is estimated that the total number of global network connections will reach 24.6 billion in 2025. my country's Internet of Things will also reach 801 billion. As of 2020, my country's Internet of Things industry has exceeded 1.7 trillion yuan. "Take" core "joint," core "accompanied" object %% The amount of compound annual growth rate is also expected to reach 13.3%.


Figure 1 Analysis of Internet Application Scenes and Characteristics


Challenges in IoT Chip Design

1More working bands and higher work efficiency

Compared with the communication chip in the traditional communication device is only responsible for connecting and transmitting signals, the application scenarios of the Internet of Things have obvious special features, covering wired and wireless communication modes, and wireless communication modules also involve from WiFi, BT (Bluetooth), ZigBee's short-range communication to NB-IOT, LTE Cat1, 5G and other Internet of Things, a wide variety of wireless communication types, involving frequency bands and frequency band combinations that need to be supported, also significantly increased, NB-IOT, 5G equal length distance The application of the communication network also brings a higher operating frequency requirements.


At the same time, the radio frequency connection stability, low cost and explosive demand growth of the Internet of Things chip has put forward higher requirements for circuit designers. From the perspective of passive parameter extraction in the IoT chip design, in such a complex electromagnetic application environment, the characteristic analysis of parasitic parameters and the key passive device simulation accuracy in the circuit have brought higher electromagnetic emulator. Challenge.



Figure 2 Important communication method




2 Complicated chip manufacturing process application scenario

The advantages of various different chip manufacturing processes are needed in the IoT chip design, thereby increasing the performance of the circuit. Currently mainstream processes include CMOS, SOI and SiGe Bi-CMOS. Low-power CMOS processes are often the primary choice for circuit designers, and their process nodes are getting smaller in order to reduce costs.


For designers, there is a need for targeted modeling of substrate structures, metal layers, and dielectric layers, etc. under different chip manufacturing processes to better simulate and extract the device characteristics and parasitic parameters. At the same time, it is also considered that the process deviation introduced by process nodes and the impact of the ambient temperature change on device characteristics. These analyzes require electromagnetic simulation tools to have higher precision.



Figure 3 Chip manufacturing CMOS process road map

3 Chip diversity and integration

The advantages of various different chip manufacturing processes are needed in the IoT chip design, thereby increasing the performance of the circuit. Currently mainstream processes include CMOS, SOI and SiGe Bi-CMOS. Low-power CMOS processes are often the primary choice for circuit designers, and their process nodes are getting smaller in order to reduce costs.


For designers, there is a need for targeted modeling of substrate structures, metal layers, and dielectric layers, etc. under different chip manufacturing processes to better simulate and extract the device characteristics and parasitic parameters. At the same time, it is also considered that the process deviation introduced by process nodes and the impact of the ambient temperature change on device characteristics. These analyzes require electromagnetic simulation tools to have higher precision.



Figure 4 Example of a company network chip



Figure 5 Internet of Things FPGA chip layout plan

In summary, more operating bands and higher operating frequencies, complex manufacturing processes, diversity and integration increase, these three characteristics bring a lot of problems to the Internet of Things chip design, focusing on:
1.Characteristic Analysis of Chip Parastruction Parameters;
2.Precise simulation of critical passive devices in the circuit;
3.The effect of process deviation and ambient temperature change on device characteristics;
4.Fast design converges to get the passive device required in the circuit.

Next, we will introduce you to the current industry to deal with the main pathway - core and IoT chip electromagnetic simulation solutions.

Core and IoT Chip Electromagnetic Simulation Solutions

The solution we introduced in this article hopes to help the circuit designer for efficient passive structural simulation, modeling, extraction, and optimization for these modules.




Figure 6 Core and Internet of Things chip common architecture design electromagnetic simulation solution




1 Passive structure multi-process angle quick extraction

Strict certification. IRIS combines 3D full-wave solution technology to meet the extraction accuracy requirements from DC to millimeter bands. Users can flexibly create simulation unit modules, then use multi-thread / multi-core technology, MPI multi-machine processing technology will decompose complex simulation problem and improve simulation efficiency. IRIS software performs an integrated passive device simulation analysis to match the process angle and temperature scan module, which can quickly understand the characteristics of process status and device with process changes, and the circuit designer predicts the devices characteristic changes to the final circuit due to process deviations. The impact of performance has guiding significance.




Figure 7 Multi-temperature and multi-process angle passive device simulation case

2 Efficient modeling of passive devices

In addition, our solution also includes a passive device custom platform IMODELER based on a neural network algorithm. The user uses the inductors needed in this tool, and the transformers and other templates can quickly create PCell, and then quickly converge in the IRIS in IRIS in IRIS to get the passive device layout structure, You can also utilize multiple auxiliary options in the template to realize the forward and direction extraction of the passive device, which in turn can obtain devices that meet the circuit design requirements.




Figure 8 Imodeler Passive Device Modeling Solution

Summarize summary

This article describes the features of the Internet of Things chip: more operating bands and higher operating frequencies, complex multi-chip manufacturing process application scenarios, chip diversity and integration, which brings new challenges to chip design . The core and semiconductor have launched a systemic Internet of Thine chip electromagnetic simulation solution: using Iris / Imodeler software to achieve fast and high-precision passive devices and interconnected electromagnetic emulation, passive device optimization modeling, etc. Application, greatly improves the design accuracy and design efficiency of circuit designers, and speeds up the product market.


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