DCON26_SLDIES_Track01_SuperchargingSoCPowerIntegritywithSiliconCapacitors_47_91.pdf

1、Welcome to ConferenceFebruary 2426,2026Santa Clara Convention CenterExpoFebruary 2526,2026 1Supercharging SoC Power Integrity with Silicon CapacitorsLuca Vassalli,(Empower Semiconductor)Mukund Krishna,(Empower Semiconductor)2ImageImage SPEAKERSLuca VassalliDirector of customer applications engineeri

2、ng,Empower SemiconductorLuca.V|Luca brings over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry with focus on system level design.He has contributed to many product innovations in a variety of applications,from datacenter to wireless communication in designing subsystems from power to signal pr

3、ocessing.Mukund KrishnaSenior manager for product marketing,Empower SemiconductorMukund.K|Mukund leads the marketing effort for Integrated Voltage Regulators and ECAPs.Mukund has spent more than 18 years in the semiconductor industry,15 of them directly involved in power management spanning high per

4、formance power management for datacenters,portable/mobile devices,battery chargers and high brightness LEDs.3Trends:oAI/HPC driving exponential performanceoDisaggregated IPs Optimization for intersection of performance/cost-benefit Task:oPI/System engineers tasked with power integrity for all sub-sy

5、stemsoTypically addressed by network of de-coupling capacitors “flatten”impedance Common solutions:oCommon solution is MLCC:form-factor and characteristics generally suitableoChallenge:High ESL leads to impedance peaking:High noise/low margin,degraded performanceIntroduction4 Orders of magnitude low

6、er ESL:Higher Perf/Power!oLot fewer components to achieve the PDN goaloLower Noise/eliminate peaking:flat PDNoReduced Supply voltage:significant energy savings and lower operating costs HPC/AI PDN ExampleoOriginal solution using MLCCs in package:high peaking in 6-20MHz range oEmbedding Silicon Caps(