Papers 2008–2026

Tae Joon Seok1, Yasuhiro Matsui3, Ming C. Wu1, Bernhard E. Boser1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Finisar, Fremont, CA 1 3 Miniaturized 3D imaging systems with sub-mm precision are o

Korea 1 3 As the panel size and resolution of flat-panel displays grow, the one-horizontal (1-H) time, in which a column driver should program data voltage into a row of pixels, is reduced and becomes a main bottleneck t

tablet PCs and home appliances that have touch-screen panels (TSPs) larger than 10 inches. However, there are many sources of noise that affect touch detection, and some of these noise sources, such as charger noise, sig

still remains the most popular, cost effective, low power, accurate solution for low-power portable applications. Simple solutions with overall accuracies of a few 100ppm are based on the combination of a through-hole or

Compact temperature sensors are widely used in SoCs to monitor on-chip temperature gradients and hot-spots, which are known to negatively impact reliability [1-4]. In this application, sensors must be able to accurately

CMOS Hall sensors are widely used as magnetic sensors due to their linearity and ease of integration [1-3]. Being essentially n-well resistors, their resolution is determined by thermal noise and so decreases with bandwi

Xiaoyue Jiang1, Martin Lim3, Xi Li1, Eldwin Ng3, Utkarsh Singhal1, Julius M. Tsai 3, David A. Horsley2, Bernhard E. Boser1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, University of California, Davis, CA, 3Invensense, San Jos

Kamran Souri1, Rajkumar Palwai1, Will Chen1, Sudhakar Pamarti3, Joseph C. Doll1, Nicholas Miller1, Carl Arft1, Sassan Tabatabaei1, Carl Sechen2, Aaron Partridge1, Vinod Menon1 SiTime, Sunnyvale, CA, 2University of Texas,

key challenge in multiple applications, from high-data-rate I/O to reconfigurable radio and radar. Conventional wireline and wireless LC-VCO based PLLs can cover a large tuning range using multiple frequency bands [1, 2]

An injection-locked clock multiplier (ILCM) is considered to be a promising solution that can generate low-jitter, high-frequency clocks, using a limited budget in terms of silicon area and power consumption. However, an

A low-spur PLL is desirable for many applications since it avoides mixing unwanted blocker signals, prevents emission mask violations or minimizes jitter in the clock source. Internal spurs result from the nature of PLL

Jacob Wysocki2, Koki Uchino1, Yoshifumi Miyajima3, Yosuke Ueno1, Kenichi Maruko1, Zhiwei Zhou1, Hideyuki Matsumoto1, Hideyuki Suzuki1, Norio Shoji1 Sony, Tokyo, Japan, Mixed Signal Systems, Scotts Valley, CA, 3 Sony LSI

Karthik Swaminathan2, Ramalingam Pandarinathan2, Ramesh Pasagadugula2, VamshiKrishna Yakkala2, Mostafa Hammad1, Karim Abdelhalim1, Kaijun Li1, Su Cui1, Jing Wang1, Ahmad Chini1, Mehmet Tazebay1, Suresh Venkatesan2, Derek

Jieqiong Du1, Po-Tsang Huang1,2, Sheau Jiung Lee1, Huan-Neng Chen3, Chewn-Pu Jou3, Fu-Lung Hsueh3, Mau-Chung Frank Chang1,2 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3 TS

Brian Holden1, Ali Hormati1, Peter Hunt2, Margaret Johnston1, John Keay2, Sergio Pesenti1, Richard Simpson2, David Stauffer1, Andrew Stewart2, Giuseppe Surace2, Armin Tajalli1, Omid Talebi Amiri1, Anton Tschank2, Roger U

The car as we know it is evolving. Thirty years ago the majority of innovations in the car were focused on the engine or body design, now 90 percent of car innovation is in electronics. Today, a typical car contains $799

During the past few decades, mobile communications have significantly contributed to the economic and social development of both developed and developing countries. Today, mobile communications form an indispensable part

Networks, and Automated Real-Time Insights Sophie V. Vandebroek Chief Technology Officer, Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT 1. Introduction When smart everyday objects, information-centric networks, and automated realtime i

1. Moore’s Law Guides the Semiconductor Industry Moore’s Law has served as the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry for 50 years. The societal impact brought about by continually increasing the capability, af

With limited frequency allocation in the radio spectrum, spectral efficiency has always been the core development of communication systems. To accommodate the increase in demand for wireless data services, RF systems hav

infrastructure require both high linearity and large bandwidth (BW) at GHz frequencies. The combination of multicarrier GSM, WCDMA and LTE typically requires IMD<-80dBc and SFDR>80dBc in a large transmit bandwidth of 300

employ various modulation methods in various frequency bands, interest in the software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver to support the standards is increasing. For the flexible transceiver, a digital-intensive transmitter

Arvind Anumula Paramanandam, Anuranjan Jha, Norman Liu, Edwin Chan, Li Lin Marvell, Santa Clara, CA The fast adaptation of WiFi 802.11ac 256-QAM mode requires RF clocks with very low integrated phase error to deliver goo

stringent requirements on every transmitter design aspect. Especially when the inter-stage SAW filter is removed, FDD operation using high-order modulation schemes (as in e.g. WCDMA, LTE) demands both remarkable noise pe

Peter Pfann1, Ronald Thüringer1, Martin Kastner1, Christian Pröll2, Andreas Schwarz2, Florian Mrugalla1, Jimena Saporiti2, Umut Basaran3, Andreas Langer1, Tobias D. Werth1, Timo Gossmann1, Boris Kapfelsperger1, Johann Pl

Iason Vassiliou1, Charalampos Kapnistis1, Yiannis Kokolakis1, Hamed Peyravi1, Gerasimos Theodoratos1, Konstantinos Vryssas1, Nikos Kanakaris1, Christos Kokozidis1, Spyros Kavadias1, Sofoklis Plevridis1, Paul Mudge2, Igor

In recent generations of microprocessors, there has been an increase in the number and types of processors integrated on the same die. For example, in [1] several IA (Intel architecture) cores have been integrated on-chi

Joseph F. Ryan, Carlos Tokunaga, Charles Augustine, Jaydeep P. Kulkarni, Krishnan Ravichandran, James W. Tschanz, Muhammad M. Khellah, Vivek De Intel, Hillsboro, OR A graphics execution core in 22nm improves energy effic

supply voltage (VDD) droops when the current in the power delivery network abruptly changes in response to workload variations, thus degrading performance and energy efficiency. Previous adaptive circuit techniques aim t

Jean-Marc Daveau1, Cyril Bottoni1, David Bol4, Julien De-Vos4, Dominique Zamora5, Benjamin Coeffic1, Dimitri Soussan1, Damien Croain1, Mehdi Naceur6, Pierre Schamberger6, Philippe Roche1, Dennis Sylvester3 STMicroelectro

is an everincreasing demand for lowering power dissipation, especially for sensor nodes, where low energy consumption translates to longer battery life or operation with a smaller/cheaper battery. At the heart of a senso

Recent low-voltage design techniques have enabled dramatic improvements in miniaturization and lifetime of wireless sensor nodes [1-3]. These systems typically use a secondary battery to provide energy when the sensor is

Pranay Prabhat, David Flynn ARM, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Internet of Things is widely expected to comprise billions of connected devices, many of which will be wireless sensor nodes (WSN). One challenge this poses

techniques that achieve high speed and high reliability. Quick low-density parity-check (LDPC) reduces the read latency of 1Xnm TLC NAND Flash SSD by 83%. Dynamic VTH optimization and auto data recovery reduce the NAND F

Joon-Ho Shin, Chae-Hoon Kim, Seung-Woo Yu, Ji-Yeon Shin, Seon-Kyoo Lee, Devraj Rajagopal, Sang-Tae Kim, Kyeong-Tae Kang, Jeong-Joon Park, Yong-Jin Kwon, Min-Jae Lee, Sung-Hoon Kim, Seung-Hoon Shin, Hyung-Gon Kim, Jin-Tae

Shogo Itai, Satoshi Takaya, Naoharu Shimomura, Junichi Ito, Atsushi Kawasumi, Hiroyuki Hara, Shinobu Fujita Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan Nonvolatile memory, spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive RAM (STT-MRAM) is being devel

candidate for next-generation universal memory technology with high density, high-speed access time, and nonvolatile characteristics. Due to good scalability of the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell in sub-20nm technic

Accelerated advances in automotive technology, such as sophisticated real-time engine controls for higher fuel efficiency and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), are expanding the application range of Flash MCUs,

Dong-Kyo Shim, Myung-Hoon Choi, Hyun-Jun Yoon, Dae-Han Kim, You-Se Kim, Hyun-Wook Park, Dong-Hun Kwak, Sang-Won Park, Seok-Min Yoon, Wook-Ghee Hahn, Jin-Ho Ryu, Sang-Won Shim, Kyung-Tae Kang, Sung-Ho Choi, Jeong-Don Ihm,

Kazuyoshi Muraoka1, Masaki Fujiu1, Fumihiro Kouno1, Michio Nakagawa1, Masami Masuda1, Koji Kato1, Yuri Terada1, Yuki Shimizu1, Mitsuaki Honma1, Akihiro Imamoto1, Tomoko Araya1, Hayato Konno1, Takuya Okanaga1, Tomofumi Fu

become widely used in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and so on. Beyond ordinary touch functions, some devices adopt an extra electromagnetic resonance (EMR) system [1] to support pens for advanced user expe

with displays, offer many advantages over that of conventional touch-panel screens by offering a more hygienic and a more immersive & interactive human/machine interface for 3D user experiences [1]. While significant pro

A mutual-capacitance touch-sensing architecture and a system that enables concurrent usage of multiple active styluses having different properties such as color, thickness, shape, etc., are developed and verified with us

Munehiro Kozuma1, Seiichi Yoneda1, Hiroki Inoue1, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa1, Takayuki Ikeda1, Yoshinori Ieda1, Naoto Yamade1, Hidekazu Miyairi1, Makoto Ikeda2, Shunpei Yamazaki1 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan

Industries, Hamamatsu, Japan 1 2 Ultra-high-speed cameras are a powerful tool for biology as well as physics and mechanics to analyze the process of ultra-high-speed phenomena. The frame rate of the state-of-the-art burs

Most mobile devices embed a CMOS image sensor (CIS) for capturing images. In addition, a variety of sensors such as proximity, ambient light, and fingerprint sensors are integrated for device control. The integration of

Jeff Rysinski2, David Estrada2, Shi Yan2, Takuji Soeno1, Tomohiro Nakamura1, Tetsuya Hayashida1, Hiroshi Shimamoto1, Barmak Mansoorian2 NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan Forza Silicon, Pasadena

Naoki Kawazu1, Chihiro Okada1, Takumi Oka1, Kensuke Koiso2, Atsushi Masagaki1, Yoichi Yagasaki3, Shigeru Gonoi4, Tatsuya Ichikawa1, Masatoshi Mizuno5, Tatsuya Sugioka1, Takafumi Morikawa1, Yoshiaki Inada1, Hayato Wakabay

reductions in power, cost and size of wireless sensors. Wireless nodes reduce average power by using intermittent data transmission, which is synchronized by a continuously operating sleep timer in each node. In some app

Johannes Thielmann, Henrik Hassander, Herbert Gruber, Florian Hus, Christoph Sandner Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria Accurate voltage references are key building blocks for almost all electronic systems. Specific