ISSCC 2026
Session 37
Memory
A 0.87pJ/b 17Gb/s/pin Parallel Receiver with a Local DQS Recovery for a Supply-Noise-Tolerant DQS Distribution in High-Performance NAND Flash Interfaces
Abstract This work presents a 0.87pJ/b, 17Gb/s/pin parallel receiver with local DQS recovery and a dual-DQS tree for reduced clock power and mitigated power supply-induced jitter (PSIJ). The local DQS recovery time-multi
ISSCC 2024
Session 16
Digital Processors
A 2.7-to-13.3μJ/boot/slot Flexible RNS-CKKS Processor in 28nm CMOS Technology for FHE-Based Privacy-Preserving Computing
*Equally Credited Authors Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been gaining significant attention as a privacypreserving solution for emerging server systems with critical information, which allows the server to perform
ISSCC 2023
Session 34
Quantum & Photonics
A Cryogenic Controller IC for Superconducting Qubits with DRAG Pulse Generation by Direct Synthesis without Using Memory
superconducting qubits foresee reaching the next milestones of the exponentially growing number of qubits. The promises in the scalability present opportunities in integrated control electronics operating at 4K stage in
ISSCC 2022
Session 28
Memory
A 20-Gb/s/pin 0.0024-mm2 Single-Ended DECS TRX with CDR-less Self-Slicing/Auto-Deserialization to Improve Tolerance on Duty Cycle Error and RX Supply Noise for DCC/CDR-less Short-Reach Memory Interfaces
Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea SSC DECS input, the resulting clock and data paths are equally matched and the impact of the RX SN on the RX performance is minimized. In a conventional RX the sampling clock is gener
ISSCC 2022
Session 20
RF & Wireless
A Time-Division Multiplexed 8-Channel Non-Contact ECG Recording IC with a Common-Mode Interference Tolerance of 20VPP
There has been increasing demand for a low-power wearable device to perform longterm ambulatory monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG). However, for a wearable device to be a convenient continuous recording system in one’
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
A Physically Unclonable Function Combining a Process Mismatch Amplifier in an Oscillator Collapse Topology
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) have been actively investigated as a promising solution for low-cost secure authentication in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A PUF should generate unique challenge-response
ISSCC 2019
Session 18
Analog Circuits
A 192pW Hybrid Bandgap-Vth Reference with Process Dependence Compensated by a Dimension-Induced Side-Effect
various internal voltages. Since it consumes static power in standby modes, it plays an important role in energy management of battery-limited applications. The bandgap reference (BGR) has been a widely used approach sin
ISSCC 2017
Session 8
Digital Circuits
8Mb/s 28Mb/mJ Robust True-Random-Number Generator in 65nm CMOS Based on Differential Ring Oscillator with Feedback Resistors
On-chip true random number generators (TRNG) have been gaining attention as an important component for building secure systems [1]. CMOS TRNGs typically exploit device-level noise, such as thermal or flicker noise to gen
ISSCC 2017
Session 5
Analog Circuits
A Quadrature Relaxation Oscillator with a ProcessInduced Frequency-Error Compensation Loop
wearable and implantable technologies, there has been growing demand on development of key enabling circuits for ultra-low-power sensor interface SoCs. As a reference-frequency generation block for clock management of th
ISSCC 2014
Session 2
Wireline I/O
A 5.67mW 9Gb/s DLL-Based Reference-less CDR with Pattern-Dependent Clock-Embedded Signaling for Intra-Panel Interface
Samsung Electronics, Yongin, Korea 1 2 Point-to-point data transmission with clock-embedded signaling (CES) has been generally adopted in intra-panel interfaces, which need to support fine resolution, high frame rate, an
ISSCC 2014
Session 12
Sensors
A 160nW 63.9fJ/conversion-step Capacitance-toDigital Converter for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensor Nodes
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1 2 Recent advances in nW-level wireless sensor nodes have created opportunities in emerging applications such as bio-implantable telemetry, smart healthcare, and environmental monit
ISSCC 2013
Session 14
Digital Circuits
A 95fJ/b Current-Mode Transceiver for 10mm On-Chip Interconnect
sense-amplifier load in the receiver. In this work, IDRV and IPE were set to 95μA and 45μA, respectively. For the receiver equalization, the PMOS diode in the sense-amplifier load is modified to form an active inductor c
ISSCC 2013
Session 10
Analog Circuits
A 0.45V 423nW 3.2MHz Multiplying DLL with Leakage-Based Oscillator for Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Platforms
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1 2 Emerging demands on ultra-low-power wireless sensor platform have presented challenges for nano-watt design of various circuit components. Clock management unit, as an essential
ISSCC 2011
Session 5
Clocking & PLLs
A 0.1-fref BW 1GHz Fractional-N PLL with FIREmbedded Phase-Interpolator-Based Noise Filtering
In the design of a fractional-N PLL, the trade-off between in-band VCO noise and ΔΣ quantization noise constrains the choice of loop bandwidth. Various circuit schemes have been proposed to relax such constrains with noi
ISSCC 2010
Session 26
Digital Circuits
A 1GHz ADPLL with a 1.25ps Minimum-Resolution Sub-Exponent TDC in 0.18µm CMOS
since the minimum resolvable time quantity is proportional to one-inverter delay [1]. For fine time resolution, vernier delay chains are frequently used [2,3]. Since the time resolution is determined by the difference be