ISSCC 2017
Session 21
Digital Processors
A Reduced-Order Sliding-Mode Controller with an Auxiliary PLL Frequency Discriminator for Ultrasonic Electric Scalpels
Intel, Hillsboro, OR 1 2 Piezoelectric transducer (PT) is an emerging energy-based technology for electrosurgery. With proper driving signals, the PT is utilized as an electric scalpel as shown in Fig. 21.4.1. It convert
ISSCC 2017
Session 2
Power Management
A Wideband 28GHz Power Amplifier Supporting 8×100MHz Carrier Aggregation for 5G in 40nm CMOS
racing to deploy fifth generation (5G) mm-wave technology, e.g., rollout of some 28GHz-band services is intended in 2017 in the USA with ~5/1Gb/s downlink/uplink targets. Even with 64-QAM signaling, this translates to an
ISSCC 2016
Session 21
Wireless
A Single-Cycle MPPT Charge-Pump Energy Harvester Using a Thyristor-Based VCO Without Storage Capacitor
The switched-capacitor power converter, also called a charge pump (CP), features no off-chip components and is suitable for the monolithic smart nodes in the internet of everything (IoE) [1]. To reduce the inevitable cha
ISSCC 2015
Session 20
Power Management
A 0.45-to-3V Reconfigurable Charge-Pump Energy Harvester with Two-Dimensional MPPT for Internet of Things
Compared with inductive DC-DC boost converters [1], the charge pump (CP) features no off-chip inductors and is suitable for monolithic low power energy harvesting applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) smart nodes
ISSCC 2014
Session 26
Other
An 8-to-16Gb/s 0.65-to-1.05pJ/b 2-Tap ImpedanceModulated Voltage-Mode Transmitter with Fast Power-State Transitioning in 65nm CMOS
per-channel data-rates and energy efficiency to meet projected system bandwidth demands. These constraints necessitate the design of ultra-low-power serial-link transmitters that can efficiently incorporate equalization
ISSCC 2009
Session 26
Other
Two Class-D Audio Amplifiers with 89/90% Efficiency and 0.02/0.03% THD+N Consuming Less than 1mW of Quiescent Power
The high efficiency of Class-D amplifiers (CDAs) makes them highly attractive candidates for audio drivers in systems with extremely low-power requirements. However, to achieve low distortion, the audio modulator is usua
ISSCC 2009
Session 19
Analog Circuits
A 25mA 0.13µm CMOS LDO Regulator with PowerSupply Rejection Better Than −56dB up to 10MHz Using a Feedforward Ripple-Cancellation Technique
block in portable communication systems for power management ICs. The LDO usually comes after a switching DC-DC converter to reduce the output ripples and provide a regulated voltage source for noise-sensitive blocks. Fo
ISSCC 2008
Session 24
Analog Circuits
A 1.2mW 1.6Vpp-Swing Class-AB 16Ω Headphone Driver Capable of Handling Load Capacitance up to 22nF
A versatile low-power headphone driver that can be used in a variety of portable electronic devices is desirable for compatibility and to reduce design-cycle time. Capacitive loads as large as 20nF are used in some platf