Through-Silicon Via Design for a 3-D Solid-State Drive System With Boost Converter in a Package

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Contributors

  • Koh Johguchi - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Teruyoshi Hatanaka - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Koichi Ishida - , Chair of Circuit Design and Network Theory, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Technical University of Munich, Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Tadashi Yasufuku - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Makoto Takamiya - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Takayasu Sakurai - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)
  • Ken Takeuchi - , Tokyo University of Agriculture (Author)

Abstract

A 3-D solid-state drive system with through-silicon via (TSV) technology and boost converter is presented in this paper. The proposed boost converter enables the supply voltage reduction to 1.8 V and smaller NAND Flash memory chips. From the simulation results, the conventional bonding-wire technology can achieve only eight NAND chip integrations not only due to their structural problem but also due to the performance degradation. On the other hand, 128 NAND Flash memory chips can be integrated into a package with full-copper TSVs and the proposed system has about 1.70 μs of rise time for 20 V, 74.2 nJ of the energy dissipation, and 225 μm2 of additional Si area consumption for a NAND chip. Even if poly-Si TSVs are used, because of the process restriction, 64 NAND chips can be stacked with about 34% longer rise time and 22% degradation of energy dissipation compared to a full-copper TSV by grinding the Si-substrate to 10 μm .

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number5739083
Pages (from-to)269-277
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Volume1
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2011
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84866864366
ORCID /0000-0002-4152-1203/work/165453411

Keywords

Keywords

  • Through-silicon vias, Converters, Resistance, Flash memory, Energy dissipation, Copper, Substrates