Tapeouts at Bar-Ilan

Since arriving at Bar Ilan, Prof. Shor has trained students and developed infrastructure to enable Silicon Tapeouts which include analog and digital circuits.  Typically, the training a student requires from the time he/she enters analog till a successful tapeout takes 3 years.  Below is a list of the tapeouts which have been and are being implemented.

  1. Pathfinder (May, 2017 – 65nm TSMC) – This was the first BIU analog tapeout. It included thermal sensors, as well as PUF circuits.  The circuits exhibited excellent functionality and have generated publications in JSSC, TCAS1, TCAS2, SSCL, and ESSCIRC.

Pathfinder

  1. Pathfinder2 (May 2018 – 65nm TSMC) – This follow-up tapeout included several new PUF circuits, all of which functioned well in Silicon. Papers were published in TCAS1, IEEE Access, OJCAS, CICC 2019, and ISCAS 2019.

Pathfinder2

  1. Genesis (May 2019 – 65nm TSMC) – This tapeout included PUFs, a Process Monitor and an ultra-low power bandgap reference.

Genesis

  1. SOC2 (June 2019 – 16nm TSMC) – Shor’s group participated in this tapeout of the Hiper Consortium and the contribution include an ultra-small, ultra-fast thermal sensor for thermal monitoring of the SOC. A paper was published in TVLSI.

SOC2

  1. Genesis2 (Aug 2019 – 65nm TSMC) – Circuits included a Ring-Oscillator based sensor, a mobility monitor and a Low Voltage Power-On-Reset Circuit. Papers were published in SSCL, ESSCIRC, TCAS2, OJCAS and IEEE Access.

Genesis2

  1. Snir (Feb 2020, 65nm TSMC) – This chip contains an LDO, a Process Monitor, a Noise modeling circuit, two different Droop detector circuits, a Dual Mode Logic block (with Alex Fish group), and a Switch-capacitor DC-DC converter. Papers have been published in JSSC, IEEE Access, and ESSCIRC.

Snir

  1. Next Gen (2021, 28nm) – This is our first RF tapeout – a 60 GHz VCO

Next Gen

  1. Nissim 1 (Nov 2021, 65nm) – A ultra low voltage, nW level Voltage Level Detector for power management – published in ESSCIRC 2022 and JSSC 2024.

Nissim 1

  1. Mini-Keter (Sept 2021, 180nm) – An image sensor/energy harvester platform. (with Alex Fish group).

Mini-Keter

  1. Multimode (May 2022, 180nm) – A system chip for Image Sensing and Energy Harvesting (with Alex Fish group). Published in SSCL 2024.

Multimode

  1. Nissim 2 (May 2022, 65nm) – An Ultra Low power reference voltage. Published in ESSCIRC 2023 and JSSC 2024.

Nissim 2

  1. Nissim 3 (May 2022, 65nm) – A current-to-digital converter for Biological sensing applications. Published in TCAS1 - 2024

Nissim 3

  1. Smart IR (2022): An embedded DRAM chip with a smart sense amplifier for Cryo applications.

Smart IR

  1. Koach (Aug 2023, 28nm) – A process monitor which gives visibility to Vth, Vth_lin, Vth_sat, mobility, random variation and Rout of transistors.

Koach

  1. Exodus (2023 – 65nm TSMC) – This is our first low power, 0.4-4GHz, Core PLL.

Exodus