ISSCC 2026
Session 35
Wireless
Fully Integrated Backscattered WiFi 802.11b Transmitter with Active Harmonics and Image Rejection for 30dB IRR and 36dB HRR at 0.88µW
Abstract A sub-μW fully integrated backscattered 802.11b WiFi transmitter is introduced with active image and harmonics rejection for common dense wireless environments. Rejection is achieved via time-domain complex filt
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
Sensor-Less Laser Voltage-Probing Attack Detection via Run-Time-Leakage-Shift Monitoring with 4.35% Area Overhead
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 1 2 *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Higher levels of security are constantly demanded in view of the ever-expanding threats of physical attacks [1–7], whose
ISSCC 2024
Session 6
Image Sensors
Imager with In-Sensor Event Detection and Morphological Transformations with 2.9pJ/pixel×frame Object Segmentation FOM for Always-On Surveillance in 40nm
Relentless power reductions in always-on untethered imagers for distributed vision are required to fit the power budgets available from their tightly constrained energy sources. As an effective approach to reduce power, e
ISSCC 2023
Session 5
Image Sensors
55pW/pixel Peak Power Imager with Near-Sensor Novelty/Edge Detection and DC-DC Converter-Less MPPT for Purely Harvested Sensor Nodes
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Cost and form factor reductions in CMOS imagers are enabling the deployment of increasingly distributed vision sensor systems. Due to battery cost and size, aggressive power reductions ar
ISSCC 2022
Session 34
AI / ML
Side-Channel Attack Counteraction via Machine LearningTargeted Power Compensation for Post-Silicon HW Security Patching
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 1 2 *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Counteracting side-channel attacks has become a basic requirement in secure integrated circuits handling physical or sen
ISSCC 2020
Session 34
AI / ML
1225-Channel Localized Temperature-Regulated Neuromorphic Retinal-Prosthesis SoC with 56.3nW/Channel Image Processor
N.1 Institute for Health, Singapore, Singapore 1 2 Retinal prosthesis (RP) electrically stimulates the retinal cells of the blind to restore visual loss, and it is essential to increase the number of channels for higher
ISSCC 2020
Session 23
Analog Circuits
A 70µW 1.19mm2 Wireless Sensor with 32 Channels of Resistive and Capacitive Sensors and Edge-Encoded PWM UWB Transceiver
Emerging wireless multi-channel resistive and capacitive (RC) sensor interface circuits provide opportunities for various applications such as environmental monitoring [1], wearable [2] and human-computer interaction [3]
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 2017
Session 26
Digital Processors
Reconfigurable Clock Networks for Random Skew Mitigation from Subthreshold to Nominal Voltage
Clock network optimization is substantially affected by the operating voltage VDD, as the clock skew is dominated by different mechanisms and has a different balance between wire and repeater delay at different VDD (Fig.
ISSCC 2015
Session 14
Digital Processors
15fJ/b Static Physically Unclonable Functions for Secure Chip Identification with <2% Native Bit Instability and 140× Inter/Intra PUF Hamming Distance Separation in 65nm
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) enable information security down to the chip level [1-4]. Arrays of PUF bitcells (Fig. 14.3.1) generate chip-specific keys that are unpredictable, repeatable and cannot be measured
ISSCC 2015
Session 11
Image Sensors
A Multi-Channel Neural-Recording Amplifier System with 90dB CMRR Employing CMOS-Inverter-Based OTAs with CMFB Through Supply Rails in 65nm CMOS
In addition to minimizing input-referred noise and lowering power consumption, a good multi-channel neural amplifier system should be able to significantly reject common-mode electrical interference (CMI). The dominant s
ISSCC 2012
Session 26
Wireless
3-to-5GHz 4-Channel UWB Beamforming Transmitter with 1° Phase Resolution Through Calibrated Vernier Delay Line in 0.13µm CMOS
Narrow-band phased-array transmitters provide an efficient way of obtaining higher power through spatial combining and achieving higher transmitter EIRP. They also provide beamforming and beam-steering capabilities [1].
ISSCC 2010
Session 6
Medical & Bio
A 1V 22µW 32-Channel Implantable EEG Recording IC
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders and affects more than 50 million individuals worldwide. Neurosurgery is an option for patients and intracranial EEG monitoring needs to be performed before surger