ISSCC 2023
Session 23
Analog Circuits
A 2.98pJ/conversion 0.0023mm2 Dynamic Temperature Sensor with Fully On-Chip Corrections
Nowadays, many battery-operated SoCs for IoT and environmental monitoring applications are equipped with temperature sensors. In these miniaturized systems, power and area are two critical concerns. One challenge for tem
ISSCC 2015
Session 9
Wireless
A 5.3GHz 16b 1.75GS/s Wideband RF Mixing-DAC Achieving IMD<-82dBc up to 1.9GHz
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
ISSCC 2015
Session 21
Medical & Bio
A 3nW Signal-Acquisition IC Integrating an Amplifier with 2.1 NEF and a 1.5fJ/conv-step ADC
unobtrusively wearable autonomous sensors, large sensor arrays, or wireless self-powered sensors, require a minuscule form factor and very low power consumption. For example, the power available from a state-of-the-art 1
ISSCC 2015
Session 15
Data Converters
A 0.8V 10b 80kS/s SAR ADC with Duty-Cycled Reference Generation
sensed signal. State-of-art SAR ADCs can accomplish this goal with high power-efficiency (<10fJ/conversion-step) [1-4]. The reference voltage design is critical for the ADC performance to obtain good PSRR, low line-sensi
ISSCC 2014
Session 11
Data Converters
An Oversampled 12/14b SAR ADC with Noise Reduction and Linearity Enhancements Achieving up to 79.1dB SNDR
Autonomous wireless sensor nodes for cloud networks require ultra-low-power electronics. In particular, sensor readout interfaces need low-speed high-precision ADCs for capturing, e.g., bio-potential signals, environment
ISSCC 2013
Session 6
Medical & Bio
An Organic VCO-Based ADC for Quasi-Static Signals Achieving 1LSB INL at 6b Resolution
read out using RFID protocols, are an important future application of large-area organic electronics. The first steps towards flexible organic electronics were code generators for RFID tags [1]. To realize flexible smart
ISSCC 2013
Session 15
Data Converters
A 2.2/2.7fJ/conversion-step 10/12b 40kS/s SAR ADC with Data-Driven Noise Reduction
Low-power sensor applications e.g. for environmental monitoring, bio-potential recording, and wireless autonomous sensor networks require highly power-efficient ADCs, typically with resolutions of at least 10b. SAR ADCs
ISSCC 2009
Session 8
Digital Processors
An Ultra-Low-Energy/Frame Multi-Standard JPEG CoProcessor in 65nm CMOS with Sub/Near-Threshold Power Supply
NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, Netherlands 3 National University of Singapore, Singapore power switch transistors S0, S1 and S2 are designed with NMOS transistors with their gate control voltage boosted to 1.2V, which is
ISSCC 2009
Session 12
RF & Wireless
A 0.75V 325µW 40dB-SFDR Frequency-Hopping Synthesizer for Wireless Sensor Networks in 90nm CMOS
Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) for ultra-low-power Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the power dissipation of existing solutions. Whereas FHSS would make WSNs very robust and secure in difficult fading (indoor