3D-MAPS: 3D Massively Parallel Processor with Stacked Memory

Dae Hyun Kim, Krit Athikulwongse, Michael Healy, Mohammad Hossain, Moongon Jung, et al.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GAKAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Amkor Technology, Seoul, Korea

University of Tehran

ISSCC 2012

Presented by: S.Ghanbari

CIDSP SeminarMay 2013

Major Reference:

• Large Chip Area• Long Interconnects Causing Delay-related Issues• Hard to Meet Different Voltage Requirements

2D vs SoC vs 3D[7]

2-D Ics[7]:

• Inability of Using Incompatible Technologies Together

Solutions[7]• 3D Packaging

Stacking several chips in one package. Chips communicate using off-chip signaling.

• 3D Ics[7]

Using different layers on the same chip. Chips communicate using on-chip signaling.3D IC has the same relation with a 3D package as SoC with a Circuit board.

3D IC Advantages[7]• Footprint

• Cost(yield and fabrication cost)

• Integrating different processes, better optimization• Shorter interconnect• Power reduction with On-chip signals• Circuit security• Bandwidth

Manufacturing Technologies[7]• Wafer-on-Wafer

• Die-on-Die

• Die-on-Wafer

Design styles[7]• Gate-level Integration

• Block-level Integration

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3D Massively Parallel Processor with Stacked Memory• 64 general-purpose processor cores at 277MHz

• 256KB SRAM

• 130nm Technology• 33M Transistors, 50K TSV, 50K Face-to-Face

connections in 5mm*5mm footprint.• 1.5V Supply, up to 4W power consumption. Results in

16W/cm2 power density.

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3D Massively Parallel Processor with Stacked Memory• 64 custom processor cores• 4KB SRAM data memory for each core• Theoretical

maximum data memory bandwidth at 277MHz is 70.9GB/s

Overview and single core architecture[1]

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Tezzaron 3D Technology

• F2F(Face to Face) bonding

• 235 I/O cells along the periphery of the core die.• 204 TSVs, connecting metal 1 to backside metal,

wirebonded to the package.

• Uses dummy TSVs to satisfy the TSV density rule(Total of 4500 dummy TSVs on the memory die).

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Stacking, TSV, F2F, and chip-to-package connection[1]

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Heat and Power measures

294 P/G land pads to supply high current(2.7A) hence high temperature(~90C from simulation).

• A dummy silicon substrate to increase thermal conductivity.

• Center region of LGA implemented as a large copper pad dedicated to VSS to decrease thermal resistance.

• Decoupling capacitors added to improve power integrity.

Average parasitic values of signal package routes:R=377.5mΩ L=4.1nH C=1pF

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Bandwidth and power measurement results[1]

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Frequency vs. power (at 1.5V) and voltage vs. power (at 250MHz) for AES encryption[1]

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Regularity

Modularity

Single core and memory tile layouts[1]

Die photos[1]

[3] U. Kang, et al. “8Gb 3D DDR3 DRAM Using Through-Silicon-Via Technology”, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers,pp. 130-131, 2009.

References:

[2] M. Koyanagi, et al. “Neuromorphic Vision Chip Fabricated Using Three-Dimensional Integration Technology”, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 270-271, 2001.

[4] G. Van der Plas, et al., “Design Issues and Considerations for Low-Cost 3D TSV IC Technology”, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers,pp. 148-149, 2010..

[5J.-S. Kim, et al. “A 1.2V 12.8GB/s 2Gb Mobile Wide-I/O DRAM with 4x128 I/Os Using TSV-Based Stacking”, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers,pp. 496-498, 2011.

[6] M. Healy, et al. ”Design and Analysis of 3D-MAPS: A Many-Core 3D Processor with Stacked Memory”, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., pp. 1-4, 2010.

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_circuit

[1] Dae Hyun Kim, Krit Athikulwongse, Michael Healy, Mohammad Hossain, Moongon Jung, et al. “3D-MAPS: 3D Massively Parallel Processor with Stacked Memory”, ISSCC 2012, S.10, P.06.

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