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Session 4
RF & Wireless
A Tri-Band Dual-Concurrent Wi-Fi 802.11be Transceiver Achieving -46dB TX/RX EVM Floor at 7.1GHz for a 4K-QAM 320MHz Signal
Beomyu Park, Jeongkyun Woo, Jaeeun Jang, Inhyo Ryu, Honggul Han, Jaeyoung Kim, Byoungjoong Kang, Minchul Kang, Hojung Kang, John Kang, Minseob Lee, Danbi Lee, Hyeonuk Son, Suhyeon Lee, Soyeon Kim, Hongjong Park, Sangsung
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Session 4
RF & Wireless
A 79.7µW Two-Transceiver Direct-RF 7.875GHz UWB Radar SoC in 40nm CMOS
Håkon A. Hjortland1, Lieuwe Leene1, Torleif Skår1, Espen Stenersen1, Dag T. Wisland1,2 Novelda, Oslo, Norway University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 1 2 In recent years ultra-wideband (UWB) radios have found increasing use in a
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Session 19
RF & Wireless
A 13.7-to-41.5GHz 214.1dBc/Hz FoMT Quad-Core Quad-Mode VCO Using an Oscillation-Mode-Splitting Technique
Voltage-controlled-oscillators (VCOs) with simultaneous low phase noise and wide frequency tuning range (FTR) spanning from tens GHz to millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bands are required for various standardized applications,
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Session 19
RF & Wireless
A 0.07mm2 20-to-23.8GHz 8-phase Oscillator Incorporating Magnetic + Dual-Injection Coupling Achieving 189.2dBc/Hz FoM@10MHz and 200.7dBc/Hz FoMA in 65nm CMOS
low phase noise (PN) and low phase errors are the cornerstone of high-data-rate wireless transceivers, especially with the increasingly more complex modulation schemes. Frequency division, polyphase filters, and ring osci
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Session 19
RF & Wireless
An 8.9-to-21.9GHz Single-Core Oscillator with Reconfigurable Class-F-1 and Enhanced-Colpitts Dual-Mode Operation Achieving 209dBc/Hz FoMT
Emerging needs for incorporating multistandard or software-defined-radio transceivers onto a single chip necessitate oscillator signals with an octave coverage for enabling seamless full-range frequency synthesis. Althoug
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Session 19
RF & Wireless
A 7.5GHz Subharmonic Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier with
multipliers, as it can lower the phase noise of a VCO beyond what can be achieved by the PLL loop bandwidth. The amount of phase-noise reduction depends on the injection strength and reaches a maximum when the clock edge
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Session 18
RF & Wireless
A 200GS/s 8b 20fJ/c-s Receiver with >60GHz AFE Bandwidth for 800Gb/s Optical Coherent Communications in 5nm FinFET
C. Nani4, D. Albano4, F. Ahmad1, F. Solis2, G. Minoia4, G. Hatcher1, M. Bachu3, M. Garampazzi4, M. Hassanpourghadi1, N. Fan1, P. Prabha1, S. Fan3, S. Ho5, T. Dusatko5, T. Wu1, W. Elsharkasy1, Z. Sun6, S. Jantzi1, L. Tse3
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Session 18
RF & Wireless
An 8b 160GS/s 57GHz Bandwidth Time-Interleaved DAC and Driver-Based Transmitter with Adaptive Calibration for 800Gb/s Coherent Optical Applications in 5nm
eq (1) F. Ahmad1, A. Mellati1, A. Fernandez2, A. Iyer 3, A. Fan1, B. Reyes 2, C. Abidin 1, C. Nani 4, D. Albano 4, F. Solis 2, G. Minoia 4, G. Hatcher 1, H. Carrer 2, K. Kota 1, L. Wang 1, M. Bachu 3, M. Garampazzi 4, M.
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Session 18
RF & Wireless
A 4×64Gb/s NRZ 1.3pJ/b Co-Packaged and Fiber-Terminated 4-Ch VCSEL-Based Optical Transmitter
from limited reach due to channel loss. Multi-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based optical interconnects can enable high-bandwidth connectivity while extending the reach to tens of meters [1-3]. Plug
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Session 18
RF & Wireless
A 600Gb/s DP-QAM64 Coherent Optical Transceiver Frontend with 4x105GS/s 8b ADC/DAC in 16nm CMOS
clock channel of 1.2mm. The transmission line effect of the clock channel is carefully modeled to make sure the ADC clock has low jitter and low skew with sharp rail-to-rail edges. Guansheng Li1, Adesh Garg1, Tim He1, Ul
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 25.2Gb/s/pin NRZ/PAM-3 Dual-Mode Transmitter with Embedded Partial DBI Achieving a 133% I/O Bandwidth/Pin Efficiency and 19.3% DBI Efficiency
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) The demand for high-bandwidth data communication in various data-centric applications has increased significantly. It requires many repetitive data transfers between processing units and o
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 1a-nm 1.05V 10.5Gb/s/pin 16Gb LPDDR5 Turbo DRAM with
Yangho Seo*, Jihee Choi*, Sunki Cho, Hyunwook Han, Wonjong Kim, Gyeongha Ryu, Jungil Ahn, Younga Cho, Sungphil Choi, Seohee Lee, Wooju Lee, Chaehyuk Lee, Kiup Kim, Seongseop Lee, Sangbeom Park, Minjun Choi, Sungwoo Lee,
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 1Tb Density 3b/Cell 3D-NAND Flash on a 2YY-Tier Technology with a 300MB/s Write Throughput
Shigekazu Yamada1, Yoshihiko Kamata1, Tomoko Iwasaki2, Andrea D’alessandro3, Erwin Yu2, Arvind Muralidharan4, Qinge Li2, Henry Nguyen2, Kim-Fung Chan2, Michele Piccardi2, Takaaki Ichikawa1, Jeff Yu2, Guan Wang2, Kwangwon
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 16Gb 37Gb/s GDDR7 DRAM with PAM3-Optimized TRX Equalization and ZQ Calibration lines can be reduced by ¼ compared to a conventional direct feedback DFE [1]. Furthermore, instead of using a CML buffer in the current-summing DFE, the CTLE serves as the DFE summer; hence, overall power consumption is reduced.
Sanghoon Kim, Daewoong Lee, Seongyeal Yang, Gil-Young Kang, Juseop Park, Kyungho Lee, Hwan-Chul Jung, Gunhee Cho, Chanyong Lee, Hye-Ran Kim, Yong-Jae Shin, Hanna Park, Sangyong Lee, Jonghyuk Kim, Bokyeon Won, Jungil Mok,
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 64Gb/s/pin PAM4 Single-Ended Transmitter with a Merged Pre-Emphasis Capacitive-Peaking Crosstalk-Cancellation Scheme for Memory Interfaces in 28nm CMOS
massive computing and AI technologies, the memory interface is critical to achieve higher computational throughput. Increasing the parallel-channel density is an effective solution to improve the throughput [1]. However,
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 48GB 16-High 1280GB/s HBM3E DRAM with All-Around Power TSV and a 6-Phase RDQS Scheme for TSV Area Optimization
Jae-Hyung Park, Su-Hyun Oh, Yucheon Ju, Chunseok Jeong, Ho Sung Cho, Jaeseung Lee, Tae-Sik Yun, Jin Hee Cho, Sangmuk Oh, Junil Moon, Young-Jun Park, Hong-Seok Choi, In-Keun Kim, Seung Min Yang, Sun-Yeol Kim, Jaemin Jang,
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 280-Layer 1Tb 4b/cell 3D-NAND Flash Memory with a 28.5Gb/mm2 Areal Density and a 3.2GB/s High-Speed IO Rate
Dongjin Shin, Minyoung Kim, Youngsik Rho, Hun-Jong Lee, Yujin Hyun, Jaeyoung Park, Taekyung Kim, Hwiwon Kim, Gyeongwon Lee, Jisang Lee, Joonsuc Jang, Jungmin Park, Sion Kim, Su Chang Jeon, Suyong Kim, Jung-Ho Song, Min-S
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 32Gb 8.0Gb/s/pin DDR5 SDRAM with a Symmetric-Mosaic Architecture in a 5th-Generation 10nm DRAM Process Figure 13.2.4(a) shows a conceptual DRAM read block diagram. The DLL matches the skew of CLK and DQS. The quadrature-error corrector (QEC) matches the 4-phase skew.
does not change properly or shows slow response, a deterministic jitter is generated. In our design, an open-loop DCC, shown in Fig. 13.2.4(b), is added before the QEC. Dutycycle distortion, from DLL code variation, is n
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 4nm 48Gb/s/wire Single-Ended NRZ Parallel Transceiver with Offset-Calibration and Equalization Schemes for Next-Generation Memory Interfaces and Chiplets
Hyemun Lee, Juyoung Kim, Eunsu Kim, Yeongeon Kang, Gunhu Mo, Youjin Lee, Mingyeong Kim, Seongno Lee, Donguk Park, Byoung-Joo Yoo, Hyo-Gyuem Rhew, Jongshin Shin Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea With the development of
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Session 13
RF & Wireless
A 35.4Gb/s/pin 16Gb GDDR7 with a Low-Power Clocking Architecture and PAM3 IO Circuitry
Ji-Hyo Kang, Jinyoup Cha, Seongjin Kim, Youngtaek Kim, Minsoo Park, Gangsik Lee, Keonho Lee, Sanghoon Lee, Gyunam Jeon, Sera Jeong, Yongsuk Joo, Jaehoon Cha, Seonwoo Hwang, Boram Kim, Sangyeon Byeon, Sungkwon Lee, Hyeony
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A 64.4% Efficiency 5.8GHz RF Wireless Power Transfer Receiver with GaAs E-pHEMT Rectifier and 45.2μs MPPT Time SIDITO Buck-Boost Converter Using VOC Prediction Scheme
enables long-distance power transfer of 1~10m, eliminating the need for power supply wiring to a huge number of sensors in the IoT era. Recently, above 1W-class power receiver circuits (RX) are becoming required for shor
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A Packageless Anti-Tampering Tag Utilizing Unclonable Sub-THz Wave Scattering at the Chip-Item Interface
responses are sequentially collected and backscattered to the reader. Eunseok Lee, Xibi Chen, Maitreyi Ashok, Jaeyeon Won, Anantha Chandrakasan, Figure 12.5.4 shows the sub-THz BPSK modulator based on a pair of SPDT swit
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A 19μW 200Mb/s IoT Tag Demonstrating High-Definition Video Streaming via a Digital-Switch-Based Reconfigurable 16-QAM Backscatter Communication Technique
Recent work in low-power backscatter modulation has enabled a new set of IoT applications requiring low-to-medium throughput [1-4]. However, applications demanding medium-to-high throughput still rely on mW-level convent
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A Scalable and Instantaneously Wideband 5GS/s RF Correlator Based on Charge Thresholding Achieving 8-bit ENOB and 152 TOPS/W Compute Efficiency
Louis, St. Louis, MO 1 2 Correlators are fundamental building blocks in radar/communication signal processing and analog-to-information (A-to-I) applications such as spectrum sensing [1]. Typically, correlation, which is
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
A mm-Wave/Sub-THz Synthesizer-Free Coherent Receiver with Phase Reconstruction Through Mixed-Signal Kramer-Kronig Processing
in the high mmWave and sub-THz frequencies can enable new applications in communication, sensing and imaging, if they can operate with low latency in high resource-constrained environments. In particular, for one-to-many
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Session 12
RF & Wireless
Monolithically Integrated Sub-63 fJ/b 8-Channel 256Gb/s Optical Transmitter with Autonomous Wavelength Locking in 45nm CMOS SOI
Optical links play a key role in many applications ranging from data centers to AI systems. Such links typically consist of a light source chip, a transmitter chip (which may be cointegrated with the light source), and a
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 0.4-to-0.95GHz Distributed N-Path Noise-Cancelling Ultra-Low-Power RX with Integrated Passives Achieving
(ULP) radios requires ULP RX that can operate in crowded ISM environments across geographies while minimizing off-chip components for low cost and for satisfying wearable/IoT device footprints (Fig. 31.8.1). ULP RX based
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 0.7-to-2.5GHz Sliding Digital-IF Quadrature Digital Transmitter Achieving >40% System Efficiency for Multi-Mode NB-IoT/BLE Applications
Cellular narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) is an important branch of low-power wide-area IoT applications, which specifies multiple operation bands over 663 to 915MHz (LB) and 1710 to 2010MHz (MB), up to 23dBm outpu
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A ULP Long-Range Active-RF Tag with Automatic AntennaInterface Calibration Achieving 20.5% TX Efficiency at -22dBm
Zhizhan Yang1, Jun Yin1, Wei-Han Yu1, Haochen Zhang1, Pui-In Mak1, Rui P. Martins1,2 University of Macau, Macau, China Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 For event-driven IoT applicatio
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Passive Bidirectional BLE Tag Demonstrating Battery-Free
Tag-to-Tablet/Smartphone, and Tag-to-Tag Modes Ziyi Chang*1, Qijing Xiao*1,2, Weixiao Wang1,2, Yuxuan Luo1, Bo Zhao1 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2Microaiot, Hangzhou, China *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 Wi
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 128-Channel 2mm×2mm Battery-Free Neural Dielet Merging Simultaneous Multi-Channel Transmission Through Multi-Carrier Orthogonal Backscatter
wireless implants have been investigated as an alternative to traditional cable-based neural interfaces. Simultaneous massive-channel recording capability is essential to study cellular interconnections and network prope
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Fully Integrated IEEE 802.15.4/4z-Compliant 6.5-to-8GHz UWB System-on-Chip RF Transceiver Supporting Precision Positioning in a CMOS 28nm Process
Chanho Kim1, Wonkang Kim1, Wonjun Jung1, Youngsea Cho1, Seungyong Bae1, Jongpil Cho1, Hyeokju Na1, Byoungjoong Kang1, Honggul Han1, Hyeonuk Son1, Chiyoung Ahn1, Hoon Kang1, Sukjin Jung1, Hyukjun Sung1, Yeongdae Kim1, Don
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Quadrature Uncertain-IF IR-UWB Transceiver with Twin-OOK Modulation
Benefiting from good energy efficiency and fine ranging accuracy, impulse-radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB) has been revived recently for short-distance communications. The IR-UWB transceiver, however, faces two major issues
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 1.1V 16Gb DDR5 DRAM with Probabilistic-Aggressor
Hammer Tracking, a Multi-Step Precharge, and Core-Bias Modulation for Security and Reliability Enhancement Woongrae Kim, Chulmoon Jung, Seongnyuh Yoo, Duckhwa Hong, Jeongjin Hwang, Jungmin Yoon, Ohyong Jung, Joonwoo Choi
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 1.1V 6.4Gb/s/pin 24-Gb DDR5 SDRAM with a Highly-Accurate Duty Corrector and NBTI-Tolerant DLL
Junsub Yoon, Jungmin Choi, Sanguk Lee, Hyunsub Norbert Rie, Jin-il Lee, Jongbum Lee, Taeseong Jang, JunHyung Kim, Sanghee Kang, Jungbum Shin, Yanggyoon Loh, Chang Yong Lee, Junmyung Woo, Hyeseung Yu, Changhyun Bae, Reum
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 32Gb/s/pin 0.51pJ/b Single-Ended Resistor-less Impedance-Matched Transmitter with a T-Coil-Based Edge-Boosting Equalizer in 40nm CMOS
demand, the DRAM interface bandwidth also increases steeply each year; for graphics applications, the bandwidth per pin has increased to 27Gb/s/pin, thanks to T-coils implemented using RDL layers [1]. As I/O hardware exp
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 4nm 1.15TB/s HBM3 Interface with Resistor-Tuned Offset-Calibration and In-Situ Margin-Detection
Shinyoung Yi, Won Lee, Dongha Kim, Taekyung Yeo, Kyeongkeun Kang, Sangsoo Park, Eunsu Kim, Sukhyun Jung, Sanghune Park, Sungcheol Park, Mijung Noh, Hyogyuem Rhew, Jongshin Shin Samsung Electronics, Hwaseung, Korea A crit
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 4nm 16Gb/s/pin Single-Ended PAM4 Parallel Transceiver with Switching-Jitter Compensation and Transmitter Optimization
communication, deep learning, advanced driverassistance systems (ADAS), and extended reality (XR), have fueled demand for increased computing power and per-pin interface bandwidth. Recently, four-level pulse-amplitude mo
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A High-Performance 1Tb 3b/Cell 3D-NAND Flash with a 194MB/s Write Throughput on over 300 Layers
Kangwook Jo, Yujong Noh, Hyeoncheon Seol, Hyunsoo Lee, Jaehyeon Shin, Seongjin Choi, Youngdon Jung, Sungho Ahn, Yonghun Park, Sujeong Oh, Myungsu Kim, Seonguk Kim, Hyunwook Park, Taeho Lee, Haeun Won, Minsung Kim, Cheulh
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Session 25
RF & Wireless
A 1-to-5GHz All-Passive Frequency-Translational 4th-Order N-path Filter with Low-Power Clock Boosting for High Linearity and Relaxed Pdc-Frequency Trade-Off to the LO overlap while using 2× higher-duty-cycle clocks, thereby enabling a 4 to 5× higher operating frequency compared to higher-order N-path filters [1-5]. These inductors do not limit tuning range at all, unlike the coupling inductors in prior higherorder N-path topologies.
The higher-order N-path filter was designed to operate from 1 to 5GHz. The three capacitors CF, CG, and CB of the baseband elliptical-LPF loads are designed with a 5b control to program the bandwidth, selectivity, and OO
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Session 25
RF & Wireless
A 4b RFDAC at 8GS/s for FMCW Chirps with 4GHz Bandwidth in 10µs
Niels Christoffers1, Christoph Wagner1, Thorsten Brandt1, Andreas Stelzer2 Infineon Technologies, Linz, Austria Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria 1 2 A frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar is highly r
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Session 25
RF & Wireless
A 19.7-to-43.8GHz Power Amplifier with Broadband Linearization Technique in 28nm Bulk CMOS
Fudan University, Shanghai, China 1 2 5G mm-wave systems in the frequency-range-2 (FR2) band (ranging from 24.25 to 43.5GHz) are expected to provide multi-gigabit-per-second (mGb/s) data-rates. Different FR2 bands are em
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Session 25
RF & Wireless
A 4.1W Quadrature Doherty Digital Power Amplifier with 33.6% Peak PAE in 28nm Bulk CMOS
and higher output-power requirements, especially at the base station side. As shown in Fig. 25.1.1, compared to the traditional analog-transmitter architectures with high-power GaAs/GaN poweramplifier (PA) modules, digit
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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 8
RF & Wireless
A 9-to-12GHz Coupled-RTWO FMCW ADPLL with 97fs RMS
Spain 1 2 At the center of autonomous driving and range and motion sensing in industrial and healthcare applications are FMCW RADARs, which provide the means for object range and velocity estimation. With future widespre
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Session 8
RF & Wireless
A 2-to-2.48GHz Voltage-Interpolator-Based Fractional-N Type-I Sampling PLL in 22nm FinFET Assisting Fast Crystal Startup
Sarah Shahraini, Thao Xiong, Dan Lake, Stefano Pellerano, Jason Mix, Nasser Kurd, Mohamed Abdel-moneum, Brent Carlton Intel, Hillsboro, OR A high-performance clock generator with extremely low jitter, area, and power con
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Session 8
RF & Wireless
A 0.0078mm2 3.4mW Wideband Positive-Feedback-Based Noise-Cancelling LNA in 28nm CMOS Exploiting Gm Boosting
γ/(gm2+gm3)RS. Accordingly, the noise factor of the LNA, F can be given by Zhe Liu, Chirn Chye Boon, Chenyang Li, Kaituo Yang, Yangtao Dong, Ting Guo Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore The noise figur
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Session 24
RF & Wireless
An LPWAN Radio with a Reconfigurable Data/Duty-CycledWake-Up Receiver
Demands for the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) are increasing along with a growing market for low data-rate, long-range internet of things (IoT) applications. Although many radios have been released for various LPWA