ISSCC 2026
Session 5
mm-Wave
A 28GHz Frequency-Diverse Sub-Array TX with Secret Phase Keys and Antenna Subset Modulation for Eavesdropping-Resilient Wireless Communication
Abstract Prior works on physical-layer eavesdropping protection only addressed off-axis Eve. This paper presents the first TX to defend against both main-beam and off-axis Eves. Incorporating three key components: freque
ISSCC 2025
Session 35
Medical & Bio
A Miniature Biomedical Implant Secured by Two-Factor Authentication with Emergency Access
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) The advancement of miniature implantable medical devices (IMDs) has made remarkable progress toward creating minimally invasive and broadly accessible therapeutic and monitoring solutions
ISSCC 2025
Session 34
Digital Circuits
A 9.05-to-37.0GHz LO Generator with Magnetic Mode Switching and Tuning-Free Octave-Bandwidth Common-Mode Resonator Achieving >190.7dBc/Hz FoM
VCOs with a wide tuning range (TR) are crucial for achieving universal frequency coverage in multi-band communications, software-defined radios, and electronic warfare applications. A TR exceeding one octave is particula
ISSCC 2025
Session 26
Wireless
A 24-to-29GHz Compact Transmit/Receive Front-End Module Featuring an Asymmetric Doherty Power Amplifier and 0.22mm2 Area
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) The performance of mm-wave beamformers is largely determined by the front-end module (FEM), which integrates a power amplifier (PA), a low-noise amplifier (LNA), and a transmit/receive (T
ISSCC 2024
Session 32
Power Management
A 47GHz 4-way Doherty PA with 23.7dBm P1dB and 21.7% / 13.1% PAE at 6 / 12dB Back-off Supporting 2000MHz 5G NR 64-QAM OFDM
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) As mm-wave 5G continues to advance in the 28 and 38GHz bands (n257 to n261), the ever-increasing demand for data-rates is also driving 5G expansion to higher frequencies, such as the 47GH
ISSCC 2024
Session 25
Other
Toward Exponential Growth of Therapeutic Neurotechnology
Motif Neurotech, Houston, TX 1 2 Bioelectronic devices that manipulate and record human neural activity could help patients suffering from debilitating health conditions not effectively treated by drugs. Here we discuss
ISSCC 2024
Session 16
Digital Processors
A Synthesizable Design-Agnostic Timing Fault Injection Monitor Covering 2MHz to 1.26GHz Clocks in 65nm CMOS
Fault Injection Attacks (FIAs) are powerful attacks that induce and exploit faults in chips to create severe security consequences like faulty results, OS security bypass, and information leakage [1-3]. This paper focuse
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
An Automatic Self-Checking and Healing Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with <3×10-8 Bit Error Rate
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Physically unclonable functions (PUF) have emerged as a promising solution for secure and low-cost key storage and hardware authentication. A key challenge in PUF designs is ensuring the
ISSCC 2021
Session 12
Power Management
Exploring PUF-Controlled PA Spectral Regrowth for Physical-Layer Identification of IoT Nodes
*Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) It is projected that 75 billion Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices will be deployed for applications such as wearable electronics and smart home by 2025. Securing IoT devices is one of the
ISSCC 2020
Session 25
Digital Circuits
A 65nm Edge-Chasing Quantizer-Based Digital LDO Featuring 4.58ps-FoM and Side-Channel-Attack Resistance
Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs) are commonly desired for fine-grained power management in SoCs because of their compact area, high current efficiency, and small output ripple. Digital LDOs (DLDOs) are increasingly adopted
ISSCC 2019
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 562F2 Physically Unclonable Function with a Zero-Overhead Stabilization Scheme
Internet of Things (IoT) devices bring a growing demand for secure, low-power, and low-cost secret key and ID storage solutions. Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are one of the most promising alternatives to conven