I/O Average And Maximum CurrentConsumption Calculation

Andrey Malkov*, Lin Wang**, Evgeny Shevchenko***
* I/O Design Group, Freescale Semiconductor, Moscow, Russia.
** Hardware Application Team, Freescale Semiconductor, Shanghai, China.
*** Manager, I/O Design Team, Freescale Semiconductor, Moscow, Russia.
Periodicity:June - August'2014
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.4.4.3194

Abstract

Power Integrity (PI) is becoming increasingly important in today's high-speed digital I/O interfaces. Power integrity for I/O interfaces is related to the voltage variations in the power/ground network due to the noise. The power/ground noise causes various problems in high-speed systems, such as logic failure, EMI, timing delay, and jitter. For the Power Integrity analysis of the I/O padring of the chip, it is very important to quickly calculate I/O current consumption at the early stage of the project, without running extensive time-consuming spice simulations of entire I/O bank. PI analysis needs both I/O padring and PCBdata, and simulation tool considers them simultaneously [5],[6],[7],[10]. Two useful formulas are given in this article and explained below that can easily allow to estimate average and maximum IO current consumption, using example of i.MX6 series applications processors of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Resulting numbers correlate well with real I/O circuit spice simulation data.

Keywords

I/O Design, Power Integrity, Current Consumption, Average Current, Maximum Current.

How to Cite this Article?

Malkov, A., Wang, L., and Shevchenko, E. (2014). I/O Average And Maximum Current Consumption Calculation. i-manager’s Journal on Electronics Engineering, 4(4), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.4.4.3194

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