ISSCC 2023
Session 17
Data Converters
A Single-Channel 10GS/s 8b >36.4dB SNDR Time-Domain ADC Featuring Loop-Unrolled Asynchronous Successive Approximation in 28nm CMOS
Kun Gao Xinxin Technologies, Singapore, Singapore *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 2 High data throughput and wideband network communications demand high-speed (several to tens of GS/s), moderate-resolution (6-10b) ADC
ISSCC 2022
Session 16
Digital Circuits
FlexSpin: A Scalable CMOS Ising Machine with 256 Flexible Spin Processing Elements for Solving Complex Combinatorial Optimization Problems
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1 2 cycle of operation, the stored spin value is distributed to the four directions based on the lattice graph hardware topology. Note that a spin input can be bypassed to the
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 29
Digital Circuits
A 21×21 Dynamic-Precision Bit-Serial Computing Graph Accelerator for Solving Partial Differential Equations Using Finite Difference Method
now with University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1 2 Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in physics and engineering and used for understanding various physical phenomena, including heat, diffusion, f
ISSCC 2020
Session 31
AI / ML
CIM-Spin: A 0.5-to-1.2V Scalable Annealing Processor Using Digital Compute-In-Memory Spin Operators and Register-Based Spins for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
*Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) Annealing processors [1-3] based on the convergence property of the Ising model offer an attractive means for solving combinatorial optimization problems [4]. A recently developed anneali
ISSCC 2013
Session 4
Wireless
A 400nW Single-Inductor Dual-Input-Tri-Output DC-DC Buck-Boost Converter with Maximum Power Point Tracking for Indoor Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting enables the remote sensors of the wireless sensor network to obtain power from the environment for their entire lifetime. For indoor remote sensors, amorphous silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell can be used
ISSCC 2013
Session 20
Clocking & PLLs
A 57.9-to-68.3GHz 24.6mW Frequency Synthesizer with In-Phase Injection-Coupled QVCO in 65nm CMOS
systems such as 60GHz band applications, the requirements of PLLs keep getting higher. In a mm-Wave direct-conversion transceiver, the quadrature LO signal generation is challenging. The conventional techniques to genera
ISSCC 2012
Session 15
mm-Wave
A 9% Power Efficiency 121-to-137GHz PhaseControlled Push-Push Frequency Quadrupler in 0.13µm SiGe BiCMOS
Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, Singapore 3 MicroArray Technologies, Chengdu, China 1 2 High-data-rate short-range communication and image systems beyond 100GHz impose crucial requirements on signal sources, de