ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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A Permanent Digital Archive System Based on 4F2 X-Point Multi-Layer Metal Nano-Dot Structure
Data is saved by the presence of a metal nano-dot at a x-point of interconnects. This passive storage node works as a permanent memory cell with >1,000-years endurance. No transistor is used in the cell, enabling multi-l
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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Heterogeneous Integrated CMOS-Graphene Sensor Array for Dopamine Detection
for advancing our knowledge of pathological disorders such as drug addiction, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia. Currently, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) with carbon microfiber (CMF) electrodes is the method o
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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A 30-to-80MHz Simultaneous Dual-Mode Heterodyne Oscillator Targeting NEMS Array Gravimetric Sensing Applications with a 300zg Mass Resolution
scale physical variations has led to the breakthrough development of NEMS-based mass spectrometry systems capable of measuring a single molecule [1]. Parallel sensing using thousands of devices will help to circumvent th
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Scalable Quantum Computing
Andrei Vladimirescu4,5, Mina Shahmohammadi1, Robert Bogdan Staszewski1, Harald A.R. Homulle1, Bishnu Patra1, Jeroen P.G. van Dijk1, Rosario M. Incandela1, Lin Song1,6, Bahador Valizadehpasha1 Delft University of Technolo
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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A 1024-Element Scalable Optical Phased Array in 0.18µm SOI CMOS
Self-driving cars, drones, and other autonomous systems rely on a number of sensors such as cameras, radars, and ultrasonic detectors to observe their surrounding environments. Light detection and ranging (lidar), where
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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An a-IGZO Asynchronous Delta-Sigma Modulator on Foil Achieving up to 43dB SNR and 40dB SNDR in 300Hz Bandwidth 3.4kHz and increases robustness against batch to batch variations. At the comparator output a source follower drives the current DAC. This is composed of a current source and four switches, implemented as double gate TFTs with gate and TG connected together.
Gerwin H. Gelinck2, Arthur H. M. Van Roermund1, Eugenio Cantatore1 Figure 15.3.3 shows the measured ADSM output spectrum for a 100Hz IIN with -7dBFS amplitude: the fundamental, the limit cycle fundamental at 2kHz and its
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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A Flexible ISO14443-A Compliant 7.5mW 128b Metal-Oxide NFC Barcode Tag with Direct Clock Division Circuit from 13.56MHz Carrier
Marc Ameys1, Myriam Willegems1, Steve Smout1, Soeren Steudel1, Wim Dehaene1,3, Jan Genoe1,3 imec, Heverlee, Belgium AU Optronics, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3 KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 1 2 Flexible low-cost RFID/NFC tags have grea
ISSCC 2017
Session 15
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Large-Scale Acquisition of Large-Area Sensors Using an Array of Frequency-Hopping ZnO Thin-Film-Transistor Oscillators
James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Hybrid systems combine Large-Area Electronics (LAE) and silicon CMOS ICs for sensing and computation, respectively. Such systems are limited in number of s
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A 3-to-40V 10-to-30MHz Automotive-Use GaN Driver with Active BST Balancing and VSW DualEdge Dead-Time Modulation Achieving 8.3% Efficiency Improvement and 3.4ns Constant Propagation Delay
automotive electronics has placed mounting pressure on silicon-based power converters to be increasingly reliable and efficient. Automotive electronics operate from the car battery (VIN) which experiences cold-cranks and
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A Fully-Integrated Half-Duplex Data/Power
isolation is becoming an essential requisite for several low-power applications, such as sensor interfaces and medical devices. In the last years, different solutions of silicon-integrated data transmission with galvanic
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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Flexible Thin-Film NFC Transponder Chip Exhibiting Data Rates Compatible to ISO NFC Standards Using Self-Aligned Metal-Oxide TFTs
logic circuits, we have measured 19-stage ring oscillators. Figure 16.6.3 plots the measured stage delay as a function of varying supply voltage. At 0.5V VDD and 1V Vbias, the ring oscillator exhibits a frequency of 28kH
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A Flexible Thin-Film Pixel Array with a Chargeto-Current Gain of 59μA/pC and 0.33% Nonlinearity and a Cost Effective Readout Circuit for Large-Area X-ray Imaging
medical-grade, high resolution, high dynamic range X-ray backplane based on a-IGZO thin-film technology with fast readout. This enables low dose, video rate X-ray imaging. Fast X-ray imaging will find its applications no
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A Flexible EEG Acquisition and Biomarker Extraction System Based on Thin-Film Electronics
Sigurd Wagner, James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ EEG is an important modality for many medical purposes. However, the lowamplitude of signals (10-to-100μV) and large number of channels (~20
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A 16×16 pixels SPAD-based 128-Mb/s Quantum Random Number Generator with -74dB Light Rejection Ratio and -6.7ppm/°C Bias Sensitivity on Temperature
Alessio Meneghetti2, Hesong Xu1, Daniele Perenzoni1, Guglielmo Morgari3, David Stoppa1 Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, 2University of Trento, Povo, Italy, 3Telsy, Torino, Italy 1 A robust true random number gene
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A Keccak-Based Wireless Authentication Tag with per-Query Key Update and Power-Glitch Attack Countermeasures
While small lowcost tagging solutions for supply-chain management exist, security in the face of fault-injection [1] and side-channel attacks [2] remains a concern. Power glitch attacks [3] in particular attempt to leak
ISSCC 2016
Session 16
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A Nanogap Transducer Array on 32nm CMOS for Electrochemical DNA Sequencing source follower’s drop. Thick gate devices also relax ESD constraints for the postprocessing steps required to construct the sensors.
Noureddine Tayebi1, Grace M. Credo1, David J. Liu1, Handong Li1, Kai Wu1, Xing Su1, Madoo Varma1, Oguz H. Elibol1 Architecturally each array is arranged like an imager and the chip contains 8 arrays of 32×32 pixels for a
ISSCC 2016
Session 14
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A 4Gpixel/s 8/10b H.265/HEVC Video Decoder Chip for 8K Ultra HD Applications
Jiayi Zhu, Yijin Zhao, Jinjia Zhou, Shuping Zhang, Shinji Kimura, Takeshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Goto Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan 8K Ultra HD is being promoted as the next-generation digital video format. From a com
ISSCC 2016
Session 14
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A 21.5M-Query-Vectors/s 3.37nJ/Vector Reconfigurable k-Nearest-Neighbor Accelerator with Adaptive Precision in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS
Sudhir K. Satpathy, Steven K. Hsu, Amit Agarwal, Ram K. Krishnamurthy Intel, Hillsboro, OR Energy-efficient k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) computations are key building blocks for computer vision, classification, and machine-l
ISSCC 2016
Session 14
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A 0.55V 1.1mW Artificial-Intelligence Processor with PVT Compensation for Micro Robots
applications, such as unmanned delivery services. The robots, shown in Fig. 14.3.1, have enhanced controllers that realize AI functions, such as perception (information extraction) and cognition (decision making). Histor
ISSCC 2016
Session 14
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A 126.1mW Real-Time Natural UI/UX Processor with Embedded Deep-Learning Core for Low-Power Smart Glasses
substitute due to their ease of use and suitability for advanced applications, such as gaming and augmented reality (AR) [1-2]. Most current HMD systems suffer from: 1) a lack of rich user interfaces, 2) short battery li
ISSCC 2015
Session 24
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A 6.5Gb/s Shared Bus Using Electromagnetic Connectors for Downsizing and Lightening Satellite Processor System by 60%
mounted in satellites must be small and light, having high data transfer rates, and high storage capacity [1]. A small reduction in size and weight could reduce the cost of launching a satellite by a significant amount.
ISSCC 2015
Session 24
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20k-spin Ising Chip for Combinational Optimization Problem with CMOS Annealing
will slow down due to the end of semiconductor scaling. Presently a new computing paradigm, so-called natural computing, which maps problems to physical models and solves the problem by its own convergence property, is e
ISSCC 2015
Session 24
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Context-Aware Hierarchical Information-Sensing in a 6µW 90nm CMOS Voice Activity Detector
The rise of always-listening sensors integrated in energy-scarce devices such as watches and remote-controls increases the need for intelligent scalable interfaces. Contemporary sensor interfaces digitize raw sensor data
ISSCC 2015
Session 24
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Circuit Challenges from Cryptography
similar to applications in other fields. We have to worry about comparable optimization goals: area, power, energy, throughput and/or latency. Moore’s law helps to attain these goals. However, it also gives the attackers
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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A 128kb 4b/cell Nonvolatile Memory with Crystalline In-Ga-Zn Oxide FET Using Vt Cancel Write Method
Takahiko Ishizu1, Yoshinori Ieda1, Naoto Yamade1, Hidekazu Miyairi1, Masayuki Sakakura1, Tomoaki Atsumi1, Yutaka Shionoiri1, Kiyoshi Kato1, Takashi Okuda1, Yoshitaka Yamamoto1, Masahiro Fujita2, Jun Koyama1, Shunpei Yama
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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1GHz GaN-MMIC Monolithically Integrated MEMS-Based Oscillators
Low phase noise oscillators are essential building blocks in the front end of all communication systems. With the continuous demand for higher data rates and reduced size, weight, and power consumption, significant resea
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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A 20V 8.4W 20MHz Four-Phase GaN DC-DC Converter with Fully On-Chip Dual-SR Bootstrapped GaN FET Driver Achieving 4ns Constant Propagation Delay and 1ns Switching Rise Time
response power delivery systems has been growing in high-voltage industrial electronics applications. Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETs showing a superior figure of merit (Rds,ON X Qg) in comparison with silicon FETs [1] can en
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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A Double-Side CMOS-CNT Biosensor Array with Padless Structure for Simple Bare-Die Measurements in a Medical Environment
Korea 1 2 CMOS sensors using nanomaterials on the surface are very effective for early detection of diseases. Among the nanomaterials, carbon nanotube (CNT) is an ideal biosensor material since it has a small diameter (~
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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A NEMS-Array Control IC for Sub-Attogram Gravimetric Sensing Applications in 28nm CMOS Technology
promoted NEMS sensors as viable and highly sensitive candidates for gravimetric applications such as gas sensing, mass spectrometry and biochemical analysis [1]. The high sensitivity to mass is related to the small dimen
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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Energy-Autonomous Fever Alarm Armband
Speaker, Temperature Detector, and 12V Organic Complementary FET Circuits Hiroshi Fuketa1,2, Masamune Hamamatsu1,2, Tomoyuki Yokota1,2, Wakako Yukita1,2, Teruki Someya1,2, Tsuyoshi Sekitani2,3, Makoto Takamiya1,2, Takao
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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Flexible Thin-Film NFC Tags Powered by Commercial USB Reader Device at 13.56MHz
Ashutosh K. Tripathi2, Jan Genoe1,3, Gerwin Gelinck2, Paul Heremans1,3 imec, Heverlee, Belgium, Holst Centre / TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3 KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 1 2 Our goal is to create thin low-cost flexibl
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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A Large-Area Image Sensing and Detection System Based on Embedded Thin-Film Classifiers
Sigurd Wagner, James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Large-area electronics (LAE) enables the formation of a large number of sensors capable of spanning dimensions on the order of square meters
ISSCC 2015
Session 16
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An Ultra-Thin Flexible CMOS Stress Sensor Demonstrated on an Adaptive Robotic Gripper
IMS CHIPS, Stuttgart, Germany 1 3 Hybrid Systems-in-Foil (HySiF) are becoming important for wearable electronics, medical diagnostics and flexible displays, which require mechanical flexibility or adaptivity as well as l
ISSCC 2014
Session 6
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A Heterogeneous 3D-IC Consisting of Two 28nm FPGA Die and 32 Reconfigurable High-Performance Data Converters
Aidan Keady1, John McGrath1, Edward Cullen1, Daire Breathnach1, Denis Keane1, Patrick Lynch1, Marites De La Torre1, Ronnie De La Torre1, Peng Lim1, Anthony Collins1, Brendan Farley1, Liam Madden2 Xilinx, Dublin, Ireland,
ISSCC 2014
Session 6
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High-Capacity Scalable Optical Communication for Future Optical Transport Network
The future penetration of long-term-evolution mobile phone services and various data cloud services will continuously accelerate the present traffic evolution. Figure 6.2.1 shows the commercial system capacity evolution
ISSCC 2014
Session 6
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Memory and System Architecture for 400Gb/s Networking and Beyond Dinesh Maheshwari
and limited by the Random Transaction Rate (RTR) of the memory system. Networking line cards to date are ≤200Gb/s and were able to use memories optimized for latency (SRAM) and bandwidth (SDRAM) designed for computing sy
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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Normally-Off Computing with Crystalline InGaZnO-based FPGA
Munehiro Kozuma1, Takeshi Osada1, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa1, Takayuki Ikeda1, Naoto Yamade1, Yutaka Okazaki1, Hidekazu Miyairi1, Masahiro Fujita2, Jun Koyama1, Shunpei Yamazaki1 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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A 30GS/s Double-Switching Track-and-Hold Amplifier with 19dBm IIP3 in an InP BiCMOS Technology
Thomas C. Oh4, James F. Buckwalter2 Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 3 Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA, 4 HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA 1 2 High-speed track-and-hold ampli
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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A 60Mb/s Wideband BCC Transceiver with 150pJ/b RX and 31pJ/b TX for Emerging Wearable Applications
Jia Hao Cheong1, Peng Li1, Jun Zhou1, Wei Da Toh1, Xin Zhang1, Yuan Gao1, Kuang Wei Cheng2, Xin Liu1, Minkyu Je1 Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, Singapore, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 1 2 Wea
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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An Electromagnetic Clip Connector for In-Vehicle LAN to Reduce Wire Harness Weight by 30%
Masao Taguchi, Hiroki Ishikuro, Tadahiro Kuroda and negative pulses are received for each bit due to Manchester encoding, error propagation can be limited within two bits. Therefore, FEC techniques can be applied. If the
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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A GaN 3×3 Matrix Converter Chipset with Drive-by-Microwave Technologies
power and frequency by bidirectional switches has been expected to be an ultimate AC-to-AC converter because it eliminates limited-lifetime capacitors and achieves high efficiency power conversion even without PFC (Power
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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A 13.56MHz RFID Tag with Active Envelope Detection in an Organic Complementary TFT Technology
University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 4 CEA-LITEN, Grenoble, France 1 3 In the last several years, organic electronics have gained increasing consideration as a cost-effective alternative to silicon, espe
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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Organic-Transistor-Based 2kV ESD-Tolerant Flexible Wet Sensor Sheet for Biomedical Applications with Wireless Power and Data Transmission Using 13.56MHz Magnetic Resonance
the reference RC oscillator 1 is 10Hz, RC oscillator 2 (= Sensor 1) is not oscillating, which corresponds to “Dry” (= no urination), and RC oscillator 3 (= Sensor 2) is 5Hz, which corresponds to “Wet” (= urination). Figu
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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Digital PWM-Driven AMOLED Display on Flex Reducing Static Power Consumption
Manoj Nag1, Soeren Steudel1, Sarah Schols1, Joris Maas4, Ashutosh Tripathi4, Jan-Laurens van der Steen4, Tim Ellis4, Gerwin H. Gelinck4, Paul Heremans1,2,4 imec, Leuven, Belgium, 2KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Panasonic, O
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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A 1TOPS/W Analog Deep Machine-Learning Engine with Floating-Gate Storage in 0.13µm CMOS
Direct processing of raw high-dimensional data such as images and video by machine learning systems is impractical both due to prohibitive power consumption and the “curse of dimensionality,” which makes learning tasks e
ISSCC 2014
Session 30
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8b Thin-Film Microprocessor Using a Hybrid OxideOrganic Complementary Technology with InkjetPrinted P2ROM Memory
Tung Huei Ke1, Soeren Steudel1, Koji Obata3, Marko Marinkovic4, Duy-Vu Pham4, Arne Hoppe4, Aashini Gulati5, Francisco Gonzalez Rodriguez5, Brian Cobb5, Gerwin H. Gelinck5, Jan Genoe1,2, Wim Dehaene1,2, Paul Heremans1,2 i
ISSCC 2014
Session 26
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A 2.667Gb/s DDR3 Memory Interface with Asymmetric ODT on Wirebond Package and Single-Side-Mounted PCB
external environments, such as chip package type and system board design. In order to guarantee the system performance, IP providers often define the package and PCB design constraints to reduce product risks [1]. These
ISSCC 2014
Session 26
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An 8-to-16Gb/s 0.65-to-1.05pJ/b 2-Tap ImpedanceModulated Voltage-Mode Transmitter with Fast Power-State Transitioning in 65nm CMOS
per-channel data-rates and energy efficiency to meet projected system bandwidth demands. These constraints necessitate the design of ultra-low-power serial-link transmitters that can efficiently incorporate equalization
ISSCC 2014
Session 26
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A 25.6Gb/s Differential and DDR4/GDDR5 Dual-Mode Transmitter with Digital Clock Calibration in 22nm CMOS
Joseph Kennedy, Gokce Keskin, Tawfiq Musah, Sudip Shekhar*, Rajesh Inti, Shreyas Sen, Mozhgan Mansuri, Clark Roberts, Bryan Casper Intel, Hillsboro, OR *now with University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada A wide r
ISSCC 2014
Session 26
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A Pin- and Power-Efficient Low-Latency 8-to-12Gb/s/wire 8b8w-Coded SerDes Link for High-Loss Channels in 40nm Technology
Fabio Licciardello1, Kia Salimi1, Hugo Santos1, Amin Shokrollahi1, Roger Ulrich1, Christoph Walter1, John Fox2, Peter Hunt2, John Keay2, Richard Simpson2, Andy Stewart2, Giuseppe Surace2, Harm Cronie3 Kandou Bus, Lausann