ISSCC 2022
Session 15
Digital Processors
Hiddenite: 4K-PE Hidden Network Inference 4D-Tensor Engine Exploiting On-Chip Model Construction Achieving 34.8-to-16.0TOPS/W for CIFAR-100 and ImageNet
Ángel López García-Arias, Junnosuke Suzuki, Thiem Van Chu, Kazushi Kawamura, Masato Motomura Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Since the advent of the Lottery Ticket Hypothes
ISSCC 2021
Session 9
Digital Processors
A Background-Noise and Process-Variation-Tolerant 109nW Acoustic Feature Extractor Based on Spike-Domain DivisiveEnergy Normalization for an Always-On Keyword Spotting Device
In mobile and edge devices, always-on keyword spotting (KWS) is an essential function to detect wake-up words. Recent works achieved extremely low power dissipation down to ~500nW [1]. However, most of them adopt noise-d
ISSCC 2021
Session 9
Digital Processors
A 25mm2 SoC for IoT Devices with 18ms Noise-Robust Speech-to-Text Latency via Bayesian Speech Denoising and Attention-Based Sequence-to-Sequence DNN Speech Recognition in 16nm FinFET
Marco Donato2, Paul N. Whatmough1,3, Alexander M. Rush4, David Brooks1, Gu-Yeon Wei1 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Tufts University, Medford, MA 3 ARM, Boston, MA 4 Cornell University, New York, NY 1 2 Automatic spee
ISSCC 2021
Session 9
Digital Processors
A 184µW Real-Time Hand-Gesture Recognition System with Hybrid Tiny Classifiers for Smart Wearable Devices
Nations Innovation Technologies, Singapore, Singapore 1 2 Recently, vision-based hand gesture recognition (HGR) has emerged as a natural and flexible human-computer interaction (HCI) approach. Users can control smart dev
ISSCC 2021
Session 9
Digital Processors
PIU: A 248GOPS/W Stream-Based Processor for Irregular Probabilistic Inference Networks Using Precision-Scalable Posit Arithmetic in 28nm
devices, their usage is also criticized due to lack of explainability, inability to include domain knowledge, and a need for large volumes of training data. To overcome this, researchers are increasingly using probabilis
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
An Area and Energy Efficient 0.12nJ/Pixel 8K 30fps AV1 Video Decoder in 5nm CMOS Process
SeungSick Jun, YongMi Lee, Seungyong Lee, Homin Kang, Changhyun Yim, Yohan Lim, Eikyung Moon, Sukhwan Lim, Kyungah Jeong, Inyup Kang Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea Major content providers such as YouTube and Netfli
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
A 91mW 90fps Super-Resolution Processor for Full HD Images
Super resolution is the process of reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) one. Super-resolution technology enables high-resolution video streaming, image zoom-in, and far object recognitio
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
A 144Kb Annealing System Composed of 9×16Kb Annealing Processor Chips with Scalable Chip-to-Chip Connections for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Service, Sapporo, Japan 1 2 Substantial progress has been made on a new computer architecture, known as an annealing processor (AP) [1–4]. The AP can effectively solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems by provi
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
BioAIP: A Reconfigurable Biomedical AI Processor with Adaptive Learning for Versatile Intelligent Health Monitoring
health monitoring devices automatically detect abnormalities in users’ biomedical signals (e.g. arrhythmia from an ECG signal or a seizure from an EEG signal) through signal classification. Compared to conventional machi
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
A 1.3TOPS/W @ 32GOPS Fully Integrated 10-Core SoC for IoT End-Nodes with 1.7µW Cognitive Wake-Up From MRAM-Based State-Retentive Sleep Mode
Alfio Di Mauro2, Marco Guermandi1,3, Giuseppe Tagliavini1, Antonio Pullini2,3, Igor Loi3, Jie Chen1,3, Eric Flamand2,3, Luca Benini1,2 University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 Greenwaves Te
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
An Eight-Core 1.44GHz RISC-V Vector Machine in 16nm FinFET
such as deep neural networks (DNNs), increasingly rely on dense arithmetic compute patterns that are ill-suited for general-purpose processors, leading to a rise in domain-specific compute accelerators [1]. Many of these
ISSCC 2021
Session 4
Digital Processors
A 7nm 5G Mobile SoC Featuring a 3.0GHz Tri-Gear Application Processor Subsystem
Gokulakrishnan Manoharan1, Ericbill Wang2, Gordon Gammie1, Efron Ho1, Anand Rajagopalan1, Lee-Kee Yong1, Ramu Madhavaram1, Madhur Jagota1, Chi-Jui Chung1, Sudhakar Maruthi1, Jenny Wiedemeier1, Tao Chen1, Henry Hsieh2, Da
ISSCC 2021
Session 3
Digital Processors
Kunlun: A 14nm High-Performance AI Processor for Diversified Workloads
In order to be able to handle a wide range of AI applications, such as for speech, image, language and autonomous driving, it is necessary that an AI accelerator be flexible enough to handle diversified workloads. Baidu
ISSCC 2021
Session 3
Digital Processors
The A100 Datacenter GPU and Ampere Architecture
Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA The diversity of compute-intensive applications in modern cloud data centers has driven the explosion of GPU-accelerated cloud computing. Such applications include AI deep learning training and in
ISSCC 2021
Session 3
Digital Processors
XBOX Series X: A Next-Generation Gaming Console SoC
improvement over the prior generation with up to 2× GPU performance, 3× CPU performance, 2.4× GPU performance/W, 1.7× memory bandwidth and 2× IO bandwidth to feed the additional processing capability and features shown i
ISSCC 2021
Session 15
Digital Processors
A 5.99-to-691.1TOPS/W Tensor-Train In-Memory-Computing Processor Using Bit-Level-Sparsity-Based Optimization and Variable-Precision Quantization
position of M macros. The CMA reduces memory accesses by 70.32%, on average, in various NNs. Ruiqi Guo1, Zhiheng Yue1, Xin Si2, Te Hu1, Hao Li1, Limei Tang1, Yabing Wang1, Leibo Liu1, Meng-Fan Chang3, Qiang Li2, Shaojun
ISSCC 2021
Session 15
Digital Processors
A 2.75-to-75.9TOPS/W Computing-in-Memory NN Processor Supporting Set-Associate Block-Wise Zero Skipping and Ping-Pong CIM with Simultaneous Computation and Weight Updating
Zhe Yuan1, Mingtao Zhan1, Jiaxin Liu1, Jian-Wei Su3, Yen-Lin Chung3, Ping-Chun Wu3, Li-Yang Hung3, Meng-Fan Chang3, Nan Sun1, Xueqing Li1, Huazhong Yang1, Yongpan Liu1 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Pi2star Technolo
ISSCC 2020
Session 21
Digital Processors
A 5.69mm2 0.98nJ/Pixel Image-Processing SoC with 24b High-Dynamic-Range and Multiple Sensor Format Support for Automotive Applications
Chang-Hung Tsai, Ying-Jui Chen, TH Wu, Hue-Min Lin, Han-Liang Chou, Abrams Chen, Andy-HB Wang, WC Gu, Wayne Hsieh, Jing-Ying Chang, Shou-Chun Liao, CT Ho, Larry Chu, Sokonisa Wei, CH Wang, Kevin Jou MediaTek, Hsinchu, Ta
ISSCC 2020
Session 21
Digital Processors
A 1.5µJ/Task Path-Planning Processor for 2D/3D Autonomous Navigation of Micro Robots
Autonomous micro robots have been deployed for various applications, ranging from unmanned package delivery to smart aerial surveillance. These robots possess intelligence for perception, make decisions based on the coll
ISSCC 2020
Session 21
Digital Processors
A Fully Integrated Genetic Variant Discovery SoC for Next-Generation Sequencing
Chao-Yang Yu3, Nian-Shyang Chang3, Ling-Chien Chen3, Jia-Rong Chang3, Chun-Pin Lin3, Hung-Lieh Chen3, Chi-Shi Chen3, Jui-Hung Hung2, Chia-Hsiang Yang1 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan National Chiao Tung Univer
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
IBM z15: A 12-Core 5.2GHz Microprocessor
John Isakson3, Ofer Geva1, Brian Deskin4, Mark Cichanowski3, Dina Hamid1, Chris Cavitt1, Gregory Fredeman1, Anthony Saporito1, Ashutosh Mishra5, Alper Buyuktosunoglu6, Tobias Webel7, Preetham Lobo5, Pradeep Parashurama5,
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 16nm 3.5B+ Transistor >14TOPS 2-to-10W Multicore SoC Platform for Automotive and Embedded
VLIW DSP, Embedded Vision and Imaging Acceleration Rama Venkatasubramanian1, Don Steiss1, Greg Shurtz2, Tim Anderson1, Kai Chirca1, Raghavendra Santhanagopal1, Niraj Nandan1, Anish Reghunath1, Hetul Sanghvi1, Daniel Wu1,
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 7nm FinFET 2.5GHz/2.0GHz Dual-Gear Octa-Core CPU Subsystem with Power/Performance Enhancements for a Fully Integrated 5G Smartphone SoC.
Gordon Gammie1, Hsinchen Chen1, Lee-Kee Yong1, Manzur Rahman1, Jenny Wiedemeier1, Ramu Madhavaram1, Alex Chiou2, Blundt Li2, Vincent Lin2, Rory Huang2, Michael Yang2, Achuta Thippana1, Osric Su2, SA Huang2 MediaTek, Aust
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 7nm High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Mobile Application Processor with Tri-Cluster CPUs and a Sparsity-Aware NPU
Jae Geun Song, Jinook Song, Hyeokman Kwon, Jaeyoung Lee, Jaesu Jung, Myungjin Kang, Jaehun Jeong, Yoonjoo Kwon, Nak Hee Seong Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea Mobile application processors (APs) must be extremely pow
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 220GOPS 96-Core Processor with 6 Chiplets 3D-Stacked on an Active Interposer Offering 0.6ns/mm
which is finally delivered to the chiplet through a micro-bump face-to-face power grid (Fig. 2.3.7). The SCVR input voltage (up to 2.5V) reduces total input current and the required number of power IOs in the package. Ea
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
AMD Chiplet Architecture for High-Performance Server and Desktop Products
AMD, Austin, TX 1 2 AMD’s “Rome” and “Matisse” are second-generation AMD Infinity Fabric-based SoCs using 3 unique hybrid process technology chiplets to achieve leading performance, performance/$ and performance/W, targe
ISSCC 2020
Session 2
Digital Processors
Zen 2: The AMD 7nm Energy-Efficient High-Performance x86-64 Microprocessor Core
design, fabricated in an energy-efficient TSMC 7nm FinFET process. Similar to AMD’s prior-generation core, codenamed “Zen” [1], the Core Complex Unit (CCX) with 4 cores in this version (Fig. 2.1.1) is used across a wide
ISSCC 2019
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 28nm 600MHz Automotive Flash Microcontroller with Virtualization-Assisted Processor for Next-Generation Automotive Architecture Complying with ISO26262 ASIL-D
Shohei Maeda, Tomonori Yanagita, Takao Koike, Yasuhisa Shimazaki, Masao Ito, Minoru Uemura, Toshihiro Hattori, Tadaaki Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kondo Renesas Electronics, Kodaira, Japan Automotive architecture has been rapidly
ISSCC 2019
Session 2
Digital Processors
A Distributed Autonomous and Collaborative Multi-Robot System Featuring a Low-Power Robot SoC in 22nm CMOS for Integrated Battery-Powered Minibots
Satish Yada1, Kartik Jain1, Bradley Jackson2, Ilya Klotchkov2, Mallikarjuna Rao Nimmagadda1, Shreela Dattawadkar1, Pranjali Deshmukh1, Ankit Gupta1, Jaykant Timbadiya1, Ravi Pali1, Karthik Narayanan1, Saksham Soni1, Sara
ISSCC 2019
Session 2
Digital Processors
An Energy-Efficient Configurable Lattice Cryptography Processor for the Quantum-Secure Internet of Things
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India 1 2 Modern public key protocols, such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), will be rendered insecure by Shor’s algorithm [1] when large-scale quantum comput
ISSCC 2019
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 978GOPS/W Flexible Streaming Processor for RealTime Image Processing Applications in 22nm FDSOI stream up to 1024 cycles, buffering up to one line of HD frames without chaining FIFOs together. Unused SRAM blocks are placed in sleep mode for the full execution duration to minimize power consumption.
of image processing compute kernels found in typical image processing pipelines, as listed in Fig. 2.2.1. Fig. 2.2.3 demonstrates how 3 of these kernels can be mapped on the presented fabric: horizontal and vertical Sobe
ISSCC 2019
Session 2
Digital Processors
Summit and Sierra: Designing AI/HPC Supercomputers
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 3 IBM Systems and Technology, Austin, TX 1 2 The Summit and Sierra Supercomputer Systems, deployed in 2018 at the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, Oak Ridge (ORNL) and
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
A cm-Scale Self-Powered Intelligent and Secure IoT Edge Mote Featuring an Ultra-Low-Power SoC in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS
Erkan Alpman1, Angela Nicoara1, Roman Popov1, Leonid Azarenkov1, Mikhail Moiseev1, Li Zhao1, Santosh Ghosh1, Rafael Misoczki1, Ankit Gupta2, Akhila M2, Sriram Muthukumar2, Saurabh Bhandari2, Yada Satish2, Kartik Jain2, R
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
A 595pW 14pJ/Cycle Microcontroller with Dual-Mode Standard Cells and Self-Startup for Battery-Indifferent Distributed Sensing
Battery-indifferent sensor nodes require continuous operation in spite of the intermittently available battery energy, and hence require low peak-power operation to fit the fluctuating power made available by the harvest
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable DTLS Cryptographic Engine for End-to-End Security in IoT Applications
Layer Security (DTLS)
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
"Zeppelin": An SoC for Multichip Architectures
AMD, Fort Collins, CO 1 2 Codenamed “Zeppelin”, AMD’s next-generation System-on-a-Chip (SoC) was designed for use in multiple products and packages in multiple markets, including server, mainstream PC desktop, and high-e
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
An Energy-Efficient Graphics Processor Featuring
Execution-Unit Turbo, and Retentive Sleep in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS Pascal Meinerzhagen1, Carlos Tokunaga1, Andres Malavasi1, Vaibhav Vaidya1, Ashwin Mendon1, Deepak Mathaikutty1, Jaydeep Kulkarni1, Charles Augustine1, Minki
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
IBM z14TM: 14nm Microprocessor for the Next-Generation Mainframe
Brian Bell4, Frank Malgioglio1, Guenter Mayer5, Dina Hamid1, Jesse Surprise1, David Wolpert1, Ofer Geva6, Bill Huott1, Leon Sigal2, Sean Carey1, Richard Rizzolo1, Ricardo Nigaglioni3, Mark Cichanowski3, Dureseti Chidamba
ISSCC 2018
Session 2
Digital Processors
SkyLake-SP: A 14nm 28-Core Xeon® Processor
Kalapi Royneogi, Nagmohan Satti, Rizwan Qureshi, Wei Chen, Tom Wang, Hubert Hsieh, Sujal Vora, Eddie Wang Intel, Santa Clara, CA SkyLake-SP (Scalable Performance), code name SKX, is the next generation Xeon® server proce
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A Recursive-Memory Brain-State Classifier with 32-Channel Track-and-Zoom Δ2Σ ADCs and Charge-Balanced Programmable Waveform Neurostimulators
David Groppe2, Taufik A. Valiante3, Naveen Verma4, Roman Genov1 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Krembil Neuroscience Center, Toronto, Canada 3 Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada 4 Princeton University, Prin
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A 665μW Silicon Photomultiplier-Based NIRS/EEG/EIT Monitoring ASIC for Wearable Functional Brain Imaging
Hyunsoo Ha1, Roland van Wegberg1, Erfan Sheikhi1, Massimo Mazzillo3, Giorgio Fallica3, Walter De Raedt2, Chris Van Hoof2,4, Nick Van Helleputte2 imec - Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 2imec, Leuven, Belgium 3 S
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A 330μm×90μm Opto-Electronically Integrated Wireless System-on-Chip for Recording of Neural Activities
Paul L. McEuen, Alyosha C. Molnar Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Recording neural activity in live animals in vivo poses several challenges. Electrical techniques typically require electrodes to be tethered to the outsid
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A 200Mb/s Inductively Coupled Wireless Transcranial Transceiver Achieving 5e-11 BER and 1.5pJ/b Transmit Energy Efficiency
Inphi, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 Recent advancements in medical neural science and brain research have enabled the potential of uninterrupted simultaneous recording of thousands of neurons. To minimize the risk of infection to
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
50nW 5kHz-BW Opamp-Less ΔΣ Impedance Analyzer for Brain Neurochemistry Monitoring
Suzie Dufou1,2, Peter L. Carlen1,2, Michael Thompson1, Roman Genov1 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada 1 2 Potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) ions are the main signal carriers i
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A 0.28mΩ-Sensitivity 105dB-Dynamic-Range Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy SoC for Electrochemical Gas Detection
Colin Lyden3, Yincai Liu1, Junbiao Ding4, Dennis Dempsey2, Leicheng Chen1, Donal Bourke3, Shurong Gu1, Jun Gao1, Lizhu Lu1, Li Wang1, Xuemin Li1, Hongxing Li5, Chao Chu1, Ling Yang1 Analog Devices, Beijing, China; 2Analo
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
A 0.3V Biofuel-Cell-Powered Glucose/Lactate Biosensing System Employing a 180nW 64dB SNR Passive ΔΣ ADC and a 920MHz Wireless Transmitter
Itthipon Jeerapan, Joseph Wang, Patrick P. Mercier University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Wearable physiochemical biosensors offer an exciting opportunity to monitor the concentration of ions and metabolites i
ISSCC 2018
Session 17
Digital Processors
4-Camera VGA-Resolution Capsule Endoscope with 80Mb/s Body-Channel Communication Transceiver and Sub-cm Range Capsule Localization
alternative to the cable-attached endoscopes since not only mitigating pain and fear of patients but also acquiring additional information about unexplained lesions for accurate diagnoses. Nevertheless, their applicabili
ISSCC 2017
Session 3
Digital Processors
A 1920×1080 30fps 2.3TOPS/W Stereo-Depth Processor for Robust Autonomous Navigation
realizing autonomous navigation on micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs). The state-of-the-art semi-global matching (SGM) algorithm has become favored for its high accuracy. In particular, it effectively handles low texture regio
ISSCC 2017
Session 3
Digital Processors
A 60pJ/b 300Mb/s 128×8 Massive MIMO Precoder-Detector in 28nm FD-SOI
Further exploitation of the spatial domain, as in Massive MIMO (MaMi) systems, is imperative to meet future communication requirements [1]. Up-scaling of conventional 4×4 small-scale MIMO implementations to MaMi is prohi
ISSCC 2017
Session 3
Digital Processors
A 40nm Flash Microcontroller with 0.80μs FieldOriented-Control Intelligent Motor Timer and Functional Safety System for Next-Generation EV/HEV
Ryosaku Kobayashi2, Masayuki Utsuno1, Fumitake Takami1, Sugako Otani1, Masayuki Ito1, Yasuhisa Shimazaki1, Naoki Yada1, Hiroyuki Kondo1 Renesas Electronics, Tokyo, Japan Renesas System Design, Tokyo, Japan 1 2 Electric V