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Session 2
Digital Processors
“Zen 4”: The AMD 5nm 5.7GHz x86-64 Microprocessor Core
Brett Johnson2, Russell Schreiber3, Carson Henrion2, Kevin Gillespie1, Tom Burd4, Harry Fair1, David Johnson2, Jonathan White1, Scott McLelland1, Steven Bakke1, Javin Olson1, Ryan McCracken1, Matthew Pickett2, Aaron Hori
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Session 19
Other
A Small-Satellite-Mounted 256-Element Ka-Band CMOS Phased-Array Transmitter Achieving 63.8dBm EIRP Under 26.6W Power Consumption Using Single/Dual Circular Polarization Active Coupler
Jun Sakamaki1, Hans Herdian1, Sena Kato1, Michihiro Ide1, Yuncheng Zhang1, Ashbir Aviat Fadila1, Zheng Li1, Chun Wang1, Yun Wang1, Jumpei Sudo2, Makoto Higaki2, Nahoka Kawaguchi2, Masaya Nitta2, Soichiro Inoue2, Takashi
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Session 19
Other
A 2.95mW/element Ka-band CMOS Phased-Array Receiver Utilizing On-Chip Distributed Radiation Sensors in Low-Earth-Orbit Small Satellite Constellation
Jun Sakamaki1, Ashibir Aviat Fadila1, Zheng Li1, Yun Wang1, Jumpei Sudo2, Makoto Higaki2, Soichiro Inoue2, Takashi Eishima2, Takashi Tomura1, Jian Pang1, Hiroyuki Sakai1, Kenichi Okada1, Atsushi Shirane1 Tokyo Institute
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Session 19
Other
An Interferer-Tolerant Harmonic-Resilient Receiver with >+10dBm 3rd-Harmonic Blocker P1dB for 5G NR Applications
The sub-6GHz spectrum is heavily utilized by 5G New Radio (NR), as well as traditional cellular and WiFi technologies. A major challenge in designing SAW-less wideband radio receivers (especially targeting the sub-2GHz r
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Session 18
Wireless
A 4×4 607GHz Harmonic Injection-Locked Receiver Array Achieving 4.4pW/√Hz NEP in 28nm CMOS is beneficial for THz applications as they typically have limited available illumination power.
As illustrated in Fig. 18.4.4, the angular resolution of the optical setup depends on two properties: the pixel-beam-separation (PBS) angle φPBS and the half-power beamwidth (HPBW) θHPWB. For the optical setup in Fig. 18
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Session 18
Wireless
71-to-89GHz 12Gb/s Double-Edge-Triggered Quadrature RFDAC with LO Leakage Suppression Achieving 20.5dBm Peak Output Power and 20.4% System Efficiency
The growing demand of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) wireless transmission leads to the requirement of low-cost, high-efficiency, and multi-Gb/s data-rate wireless systems. Allocated by the Federal Communications Commission (
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Session 18
Wireless
A 128Gb/s 1.95pJ/b D-Band Receiver with Integrated PLL and ADC in 22nm FinFET
Somnath Kundu1, Peter Sagazio1, Hariprasad Chandrakumar1, Thomas Brown1, Brent Carlton1, Christopher Hull4, Steven Callender1, Stefano Pellerano1 Intel, Hillsboro, OR, 2Intel, Santa Clara, CA, 3now with Apple, Sunnyvale,
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Session 18
Wireless
A W-Band Transceiver Array with 2.4GHz LO Synchronization Enabling Full Scalability for FMCW Radar
Closing the angular resolution gap between CMOS radar and optical imaging systems can enable an entirely new cost-effective radar-centric perception solution, but requires extremely large transceiver (TRX) arrays to achi
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Session 17
Data Converters
A Single-Channel 10GS/s 8b >36.4dB SNDR Time-Domain ADC Featuring Loop-Unrolled Asynchronous Successive Approximation in 28nm CMOS
Kun Gao Xinxin Technologies, Singapore, Singapore *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 2 High data throughput and wideband network communications demand high-speed (several to tens of GS/s), moderate-resolution (6-10b) ADC
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 3mW 2.7GS/s 8b Subranging ADC with Multiple-ReferenceEmbedded Comparators
A subranging ADC is a good choice for wideband applications since the numerous comparators for a flash ADC can be avoided [1-5]. However, despite the reduced number of comparators that a subranging ADC requires, these co
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 7b 4.5GS/s 4× Interleaved SAR ADC with Fully On-Chip Background Timing Skew Calibration
With the development of broadband wireless communication and DSP-based wireline communication, there is a rising demand for medium-resolution (6~8bit) ADCs with multi-gigahertz sampling rates and low power consumption. T
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 10mW 10-ENOB 1GS/s Ring-Amp-Based Pipelined TI-SAR ADC with Split MDAC and Switched Reference Decoupling Capacitor
Next-generation wireless standards (e.g., WiFi-7) advancing towards wider bandwidth and higher order modulation require ADCs with GHz sampling rates and over 12b resolution. Although conventional pipelined ADCs can satis
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 750mW 24GS/s 12b Time-Interleaved ADC for Direct RF Sampling in Modern Wireless Systems
Atsushi Matsuda2, Minori Yoshida2, Masazumi Marutani2, Aadil Hussain Maniyar1, Jay Kumar1 Socionext Europe, Maidenhead, United Kingdom Socionext, Yokohama, Japan 1 2 An ADC with a sampling rate of tens of GS/s and a high
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 14b 16GS/s Time-Interleaving Direct-RF Synthesis DAC with T-DEM Achieving -70dBc IM3 up to 7.8GHz in 7nm
Yu-Sian Lin1, Hung-Yi Huang1, HsinWei Chen1, Sheng-Hui Liao1, Kuan-Dar Chen1, Jon Strange2, Gabriele Manganaro3 MediaTek, HsinChu, Taiwan, 2MediaTek, Kent, United Kingdom, 3MediaTek, Woburn, MA *Equally Credited Authors
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Session 17
Data Converters
An 8b 1.0-to-1.25GS/s 0.7-to-0.8V Single-Stage Time-Based Gated-Ring-Oscillator ADC with 2× Interpolating Sense-Amplifier-Latches
2 Circuit innovations in medium-low resolution ADCs are among the key enablers to achieving higher data rates, currently at 224Gb/s [1], in the next-generation datacommunication links based on sophisticated DSP technique
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Session 17
Data Converters
A 2×-Interleaved 9b 2.8GS/s 5b/cycle SAR ADC with Linearized Configurable V2T Buffer Achieving >50dB SNDR at 3GHz Input
Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 By increasing the number of bits in each conversion cycle, the sampling rate of SAR ADCs can be considerably extended while maintaining superior energ
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Session 16
AI / ML
A 40-310TOPS/W SRAM-Based All-Digital Up to 4b In-Memory Computing Multi-Tiled NN Accelerator in FD-SOI 18nm for Deep-Learning Edge Applications
Harsh Rawat2, Hitesh Chawla2, Abhijith VS2, Paolo Zambotti4, Akhilesh Sharma2, Carmine Cappetta1, Michele Rossi1, Antonio De Vita1, Francesca Girardi1 STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Italy STMicroelectronics, Noida, India
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Session 16
AI / ML
A Nonvolatile AI-Edge Processor with 4MB SLC-MLC Hybrid-Mode ReRAM Compute-in-Memory Macro and 51.4-251TOPS/W
Yun-Chen Lo1, Chuan-Jia Jhang1,2, Hung-Hsi Hsu1, Yu-Hsiang Chin1, Yu-Chiao Chen1, Chung-Chuan Lo1, Ren-Shuo Liu1, Kea-Tiong Tang1, Chih-Cheng Hsieh1, Yu-Der Chih3, Tsung-Yung Chang3, Meng-Fan Chang1,2 National Tsing Hua
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Session 16
Digital Processors
DynaPlasia: An eDRAM In-Memory-Computing-Based Reconfigurable Spatial Accelerator with Triple-Mode Cell for Dynamic Resource Switching
and area efficiency for deep neural network (DNN) processing [1-3]. As shown in Fig. 16.5.1, despite promising macro-level efficiency and throughput, there remain three main challenges to extending gains to system perfor
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Session 16
Digital Processors
TensorCIM: A 28nm 3.7nJ/Gather and 8.3TFLOPS/W FP32 Digital-CIM Tensor Processor for MCM-CIM-Based Beyond-NN Acceleration
Recommendation Models (DLRMs) have computational and data-movement requirements beyond those seen in typical NN processing. Such beyond-NN applications typically consist of Sparse Gathering (SpG) and Sparse Algebra (SpA)
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Session 16
Digital Processors
A 28nm 16.9-300TOPS/W Computing-in-Memory Processor Supporting Floating-Point NN Inference/Training with Intensive-CIM Sparse-Digital Architecture
University, Beijing, China 1 2 Computing-in-memory (CIM) has shown high energy efficiency on low-precision integer multiply-accumulate (MAC) [1-3]. However, implementing floating-point (FP) operations using CIM has not b
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Session 16
AI / ML
A 28nm 53.8TOPS/W 8b Sparse Transformer Accelerator with In-Memory Butterfly Zero Skipper for Unstructured-Pruned NN and CIM-Based Local-Attention-Reusable Engine
Transformer networks, from BERT, GPT to Alphafold, have demonstrated unprecedented advances in a variety of AI tasks. Fig. 16.2.1 shows the computing flow of self-attention – the fundamental operation in transformers. Qu
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Session 16
AI / ML
MulTCIM: A 28nm 2.24µJ/Token Attention-Token-Bit Hybrid Sparse Digital CIM-Based Accelerator for Multimodal Transformers
natural language, speech, etc. Multimodal Transformer (MulT, Fig. 16.1.1) models introduce a cross-modal attention mechanism to vanilla transformers to learn from different modalities, achieving excellent results on mult
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Session 15
Hardware Security
A 100Gbps Fault-Injection Attack Resistant AES-256 Engine with 99.1-to-99.99% Error Coverage in Intel 4 CMOS
from cryptographic engines to extract secret keys. A single fault injected into the penultimate AES round using directed laser pulses or voltage/clock glitches corrupts 4 output bytes (Fig. 15.5.1), reducing key search s
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Session 15
Hardware Security
A 28nm 68MOPS 0.18µJ/Op Paillier Homomorphic Encryption Processor with Bit-Serial Sparse Ciphertext Computing
of tremendous emerging information applications, providing various reliable and high-performance services based on vast amounts of individual and organizational data. Paillier homomorphic encryption (PHE)
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Session 15
Hardware Security
A 33kDMIPS 6.4W Vehicle Communication Gateway Processor
in the Control domain can start the CAN service in parallel with booting for other (nonCAN) services. Moreover, decryption by a secure CPU and data loading from external memory can be performed in parallel by double buff
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Session 15
Hardware Security
A 2.19µW Self-Powered SoC with Integrated Multimodal
Everactive, Charlottesville, VA, 2Everactive, Santa Clara, CA, 3Everactive, Ann Arbor, MI preserved. The SoC is designed to operate near-threshold to achieve its low power floor. Thus, an AVFS block is included to improv
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Session 15
Hardware Security
A Self-Powered SoC with Distributed Cooperative Energy Harvesting and Multi-Chip Power Management for System-in-Fiber
Michael Rickley2, Andrew Kopanski2, Lauren Cantley2, Austin Coon2, Matthew Bernasconi2, Tairan Wang2, Benton H. Calhoun1 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA 1 2 Rapid reducti
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Session 14
Digital Circuits
A Digital Low-Dropout (LDO) Linear Regulator with Adaptive Transfer Function Featuring 125A/mm2 Power Density and Autonomous Bypass Mode
grouped and share a common power supply per group. A combination of a common supply with per-domain DVFS implies a need for local voltage regulation, which in some SOCs is based on LDOs. Operation conditions feature dyna
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Session 14
Digital Circuits
A 10-to-300MHz Fractional Output Divider with -80dBc Worst-Case Fractional Spurs Using Auxiliary-PLL-Based Background 0th/1st/2nd-Order DTC INL Calibration
generators to satisfy diverse specifications for different modules, such as microprocessors, memories, I/O interfaces, and power management. Conventionally, multiple PLLs are used in SoCs to provide various frequency out
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Session 14
Digital Circuits
A Fractional-N Digital MDLL with Injection-Error Scrambling and Background Third-Order DTC Delay Equalizer Achieving –67dBc Fractional Spur
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada 1 2 Ring-oscillator (RO)-based injection-locked phase-locked loops (IL-PLLs) and multiplying delay-locked loops (MDLLs) are promising candidates for low-cost, highperformance cloc
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Session 13
Other
A Silicon Photonic Reconfigurable Optical Analog Processor (SiROAP) with a 4x4 Optical Mesh
As we envision post-Moore solid-state circuits, there is a growing impetus for leveraging emerging device technologies outside the traditional CMOS fold. Silicon photonics (SiP) fabrication in CMOS-compatible foundries h
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Session 13
Other
Subtractive Photonic Waveguide-Coupled Photodetectors in 180nm Bulk CMOS
The integration of electronics and photonics into a single silicon CMOS process can serve wide-ranging applications, e.g. complex imaging and projection photonic systems, onchip optical interconnects, or self-correcting
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Session 13
Other
A Self-Programming PUF Harvesting the High-Energy Plasma During Fabrication
Ambient energy harvesting exploits existing energy for powering ICs and has been expanding operation space and application field of IC electronics. If an existing high energy source yet unexploited by ICs could be found,
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Session 13
Other
A Triturated Sensing System
evolution of our information society today, where compact high-performance computers exist everywhere to provide us easy and immediate access to powerful information technologies and services. To further advance our info
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Session 13
Other
A 47nW Mixed-Signal Voice Activity Detector (VAD) Featuring
Jinhai Lin1, Ka-Fai Un1, Wei-Han Yu1, Pui-In Mak1, Rui P. Martins1,2 University of Macau, Macau, China Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Real-time speech recognizers and translators re
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Session 13
AI / ML
Crystalline Oxide Semiconductor-based 3D Bank Memory System for Endpoint Artificial Intelligence with Multiple Neural Networks Facilitating Context Switching and Power Gating the maximum frequency. Energy for inference (MNIST) using only the CPU memory and the core is 1681.97µJ, whereas energy for inference using the ACC is 0.19µJ. The inference time is reduced from 3.55s to 485µs. Therefore, our ACC enables inference according to the frame rate of imaging data (e.g., 60fps and 16ms).
Masashi Fujita1, Munehiro Kozuma1, Yoshinori Ando1, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa1, Toru Nakura2, Shunpei Yamazaki1 The effect of power reduction when performing context switching and PG is compared between an OS/Si chip and a Si (
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A Carrier-Phase-Recovery Loop for a 3.2pJ/b 24Gb/s QPSK Coherent Optical Receiver
increasing intra-datacenter traffic is pushing the demand for ultra-high-speed optical interconnect that maximizes both power efficiency and data rate per wavelength. Intensity modulation-direct detection (IM-DD) links a
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A 7 pA/√Hz Asymmetric Differential TIA for 100Gb/s PAM-4 links with -14dBm Optical Sensitivity in 16nm CMOS
amplifier (TIA) is a critical building block that impacts the noise, bandwidth, and power consumption of intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD) optical links used in data centers. CMOS TIAs using the shunt-feed
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A 0.96pJ/b 7×50Gb/s-per-Fiber WDM Receiver with Stacked 7nm CMOS and 45nm Silicon Photonic Dies
Ying Cao1, Jae Wook Kim1, Nakul Narang2, Hongyuan Zhao2, Yipeng Wang2, Kee Hian Tan2, Winson Lin1, Jay Im1, David Mahashin1, Santiago Asuncion1, Parag Upadhyaya1, Yohan Frans1 AMD, San Jose, CA AMD, Singapore, Singapore
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Session 11
Power Management
A Compact 12V-to-1V 91.8% Peak Efficiency Hybrid Resonant Switched-Capacitor Parallel Inductor (ReSC-PL) Buck Converter
Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 High power density, high efficiency, and high voltage conversion ratio (VCR) DC-DC converters are in great demand for portable devices and autonomous
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Session 11
Power Management
A 5A 94.5% Peak Efficiency 9~16V-to-1V Dual-Path Series-Capacitor Converter with Full Duty Range and Low V·A Metric
ratio, high efficiency and compact 12V-to-1V DC-DC converters become increasingly important. Double step-down (DSD) converters [1–2], also known as series-capacitor converters, offer a promising solution using the capaci
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Session 11
Power Management
A Wide 0.1-to-10 Conversion-Ratio Symmetric Hybrid Buck-Boost Converter for USB PD Bidirectional Conversion
Semiconductor, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 In recent years, USB Power Delivery (USB PD) is playing an increasingly important role in the field of consumer electronics. The USB PD 3.1 extends the delivering voltage up to 48V, whi
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Session 11
Power Management
A 42W Reconfigurable Bidirectional Power Delivery Voltage-Regulating Cable
Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 The universal serial bus (USB) has become really universal in recent years, with power delivery and all kinds of data protocols connected through a si
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Session 11
Power Management
A 21W 94.8%-Efficient Reconfigurable Single-Inductor Multi-Stage Hybrid DC-DC Converter
The ongoing demand for smaller form factors and faster charging times of mobile products continue to drive the need for efficient, high-density power delivery (PD) for charging with a wide input voltage (VIN) range of 5V
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Session 11
Power Management
A Double Step-Down Dual-Output Converter with Cross Regulation of 0.025mV/mA and Improved Current Balance
Zhen-Yu Yang1, Ke-Horng Chen1, Kuo-Lin Zheng1,2, Ying-Hsi Lin3, Shian-Ru Lin3, Tsung-Yen Tsai3, Wei-Cheng Huang1 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 2 Chip-GaN Power Semiconductor, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3
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Session 11
Power Management
A 1.8W High-Frequency SIMO Converter Featuring Digital Sensor-Less Computational Zero-Current Operation and Non-Linear Duty-Boost
Shahar Wolf2, Ashoke Ravi1, Krishnan Ravichandran1, Ofir Degani2, James W. Tschanz1, Vivek De1 Intel, Hillsboro, OR Intel, Haifa, Israel 1 2 Power delivery components are critical for meeting size and weight requirements
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Session 11
Power Management
A 12V-to-1V Quad-Output Switched-Capacitor Buck Converter with Shared DC Capacitors Achieving 90.4% Peak Efficiency and 48mA/mm3 Power Density at 85% Efficiency
Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Direct 12V-to-1V power delivery has become popular in datacenter applications. Multiple outputs regulated by switching regulators are favorable to red
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Session 11
Power Management
A 12V-Input 1V–1.8V-Output 93.7% Peak Efficiency Dual-Inductor Quad-Path Hybrid DC-DC Converter
Sai-Weng Sin1, Rui P. Martins1,3 University of Macau, Macau, China Zhuhai UM Science & Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai, China 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 A high-efficienc
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Session 11
Power Management
A Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated Two-Stage Vertical Power-Delivery Architecture for High-Performance Computing
computing needs in data center, autonomous vehicle, and mobile device processors demand increasingly large peak currents at scaled-CMOScompatible voltages (<1V). To ease otherwise high I2R losses in power delivery (PD),