Development of highly stable but cost-effective timing device for integrated circuits

开发高稳定且高性价比的集成电路计时器件

• 批准号: 570497-2021
• 负责人: Ahamed, MohammedMJ
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: University of Windsor
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=760460
• 关键词: Development; highly; stable; but; cost

Due to the pandemic many things are undergoing a transformative change including the way we communicate, and work. Previously, people were tethered where they worked, but the pandemic showed that people can work, communicate, and remotely control a lot of hardware, processes, and services. It created a meteoritic rise in the demand for equipment and solutions for reliable and safe connectivity. It is expected that this surge will continue in the coming years to decades thus creating tremendous opportunities for commercialization, jobs, and economic recovery. The number of smart and connected devices are expected to surpass 83 billion by 2024. In the heart of all connected and smart devices is a small timing chip which is responsible for keeping time. Time is the essence of everything. A reliable and accurate time keeping device is in the heart of many electronic chips and integrated circuits (ICs). A timing device use a high precision oscillator to provide a reference frequency to measure time. This reference frequency generating chip is ubiquitous in many electronic devices and helps provide signals used to keep track of time, synchronize events in digital ICs, manage data transfer, define radio frequencies, and process signals. As the trend continues for better and reliable connectivity the demand for high accuracy but cost-effective solutions for timing device will remain at the center of major technological innovation thus providing many opportunities for improvements and commercialization. To address such challenges and to meet the unprecedented demand, this project will develop cost effective, low powered but highly stable and accurate timing device by a synergic combination of alternate semiconductor materials and novel device design. It will design, validate and manufacture the highest performing, most reliable, and cost-effective timing device that would be one of the world's first pioneering designs with true multi and programmable output. The invention of this high-performance timing micro-chip is expected to increase Canada's competitiveness in the emerging area of semiconductor and communications technologies, be manufactured in Canada and create new economic opportunities.

由于大流行，许多事情正在发生变革，包括我们的沟通方式和工作方式。以前，人们被束缚在工作的地方，但大流行表明，人们可以工作，沟通和远程控制大量的硬件，流程和服务。它创造了对设备和解决方案的需求，以实现可靠和安全的连接。预计这种激增将在未来几年至几十年内持续下去，从而为商业化、就业和经济复苏创造巨大的机会。到2024年，智能和联网设备的数量预计将超过830亿。在所有连接和智能设备的心脏是一个小的定时芯片，负责保持时间。时间是一切事物的本质。一个可靠和准确的时间保持设备是许多电子芯片和集成电路（IC）的核心。定时装置使用高精度振荡器来提供基准频率以测量时间。这种基准频率发生芯片在许多电子设备中无处不在，有助于提供用于跟踪时间、同步数字IC中的事件、管理数据传输、定义射频和处理信号的信号。随着更好和可靠的连接趋势的持续，对高精度但具有成本效益的计时设备解决方案的需求将仍然是主要技术创新的中心，从而为改进和商业化提供了许多机会。为了应对这些挑战并满足前所未有的需求，该项目将通过替代半导体材料和新型器件设计的协同组合，开发具有成本效益，低功耗但高度稳定和准确的定时器件。它将设计、验证和制造性能最高、最可靠、最具成本效益的定时器件，这将是世界上首批具有真正多路和可编程输出的开创性设计之一。这种高性能定时微芯片的发明有望提高加拿大在新兴的半导体和通信技术领域的竞争力，在加拿大制造，并创造新的经济机会。