2016

1. Moore’s Law Guides the Semiconductor Industry Moore’s Law has served as the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry for 50 years. The societal impact brought about by continually increasing the capability, af

Networks, and Automated Real-Time Insights Sophie V. Vandebroek Chief Technology Officer, Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT 1. Introduction When smart everyday objects, information-centric networks, and automated realtime i

During the past few decades, mobile communications have significantly contributed to the economic and social development of both developed and developing countries. Today, mobile communications form an indispensable part

The car as we know it is evolving. Thirty years ago the majority of innovations in the car were focused on the engine or body design, now 90 percent of car innovation is in electronics. Today, a typical car contains $799

Brian Holden1, Ali Hormati1, Peter Hunt2, Margaret Johnston1, John Keay2, Sergio Pesenti1, Richard Simpson2, David Stauffer1, Andrew Stewart2, Giuseppe Surace2, Armin Tajalli1, Omid Talebi Amiri1, Anton Tschank2, Roger U

Jieqiong Du1, Po-Tsang Huang1,2, Sheau Jiung Lee1, Huan-Neng Chen3, Chewn-Pu Jou3, Fu-Lung Hsueh3, Mau-Chung Frank Chang1,2 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3 TS

Karthik Swaminathan2, Ramalingam Pandarinathan2, Ramesh Pasagadugula2, VamshiKrishna Yakkala2, Mostafa Hammad1, Karim Abdelhalim1, Kaijun Li1, Su Cui1, Jing Wang1, Ahmad Chini1, Mehmet Tazebay1, Suresh Venkatesan2, Derek

Jacob Wysocki2, Koki Uchino1, Yoshifumi Miyajima3, Yosuke Ueno1, Kenichi Maruko1, Zhiwei Zhou1, Hideyuki Matsumoto1, Hideyuki Suzuki1, Norio Shoji1 Sony, Tokyo, Japan, Mixed Signal Systems, Scotts Valley, CA, 3 Sony LSI

A low-spur PLL is desirable for many applications since it avoides mixing unwanted blocker signals, prevents emission mask violations or minimizes jitter in the clock source. Internal spurs result from the nature of PLL

An injection-locked clock multiplier (ILCM) is considered to be a promising solution that can generate low-jitter, high-frequency clocks, using a limited budget in terms of silicon area and power consumption. However, an

key challenge in multiple applications, from high-data-rate I/O to reconfigurable radio and radar. Conventional wireline and wireless LC-VCO based PLLs can cover a large tuning range using multiple frequency bands [1, 2]

Kamran Souri1, Rajkumar Palwai1, Will Chen1, Sudhakar Pamarti3, Joseph C. Doll1, Nicholas Miller1, Carl Arft1, Sassan Tabatabaei1, Carl Sechen2, Aaron Partridge1, Vinod Menon1 SiTime, Sunnyvale, CA, 2University of Texas,

Xiaoyue Jiang1, Martin Lim3, Xi Li1, Eldwin Ng3, Utkarsh Singhal1, Julius M. Tsai 3, David A. Horsley2, Bernhard E. Boser1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, University of California, Davis, CA, 3Invensense, San Jos

CMOS Hall sensors are widely used as magnetic sensors due to their linearity and ease of integration [1-3]. Being essentially n-well resistors, their resolution is determined by thermal noise and so decreases with bandwi

Compact temperature sensors are widely used in SoCs to monitor on-chip temperature gradients and hot-spots, which are known to negatively impact reliability [1-4]. In this application, sensors must be able to accurately

still remains the most popular, cost effective, low power, accurate solution for low-power portable applications. Simple solutions with overall accuracies of a few 100ppm are based on the combination of a through-hole or

tablet PCs and home appliances that have touch-screen panels (TSPs) larger than 10 inches. However, there are many sources of noise that affect touch detection, and some of these noise sources, such as charger noise, sig

Korea 1 3 As the panel size and resolution of flat-panel displays grow, the one-horizontal (1-H) time, in which a column driver should program data voltage into a row of pixels, is reduced and becomes a main bottleneck t

Tae Joon Seok1, Yasuhiro Matsui3, Ming C. Wu1, Bernhard E. Boser1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Finisar, Fremont, CA 1 3 Miniaturized 3D imaging systems with sub-mm precision are o

Switched-capacitor (SC) DC-DC converters have several advantages over inductive DC-DC converters in that they are easily integrated on-chip and can scale to desired power levels, rendering themselves promising for integr

In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing interest in monolithic power supplies. Integrating the power supply with the application has many direct benefits, including a reduction of the bill of materials and red

Switched-capacitor (SC) DC-DC converters have gained attention based on their ability to offer a low-cost high-efficiency power conversion, and allow a thin and compact module packaging [1]. However, the SC DC-DC convert

In recent years, significant progress has been made on switched-capacitor DC-DC converters as they enable fully integrated on-chip power management. New converter topologies overcame the fixed input-to-output voltage lim

Wide input rails (12V to 100V) are common in today’s automotive and industrial systems. Miniaturized DC-DC voltage regulators (VRs), which can provide a lowvoltage regulated output from a wide input range and deliver a f

causes a large output voltage undershoot ΔVUS and long settling time ts if the transient responses are slow [1]. Since the output capacitor current ICo instantly reflects ΔIload, transient response optimization for minim

Nan Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 The calibration process of the ACC technique is described by the flow chart in Fig. 12.7.3. When ACC detects that LEDs are all on, the output voltage is sensed and defined as VOt. Le

High-voltage linear drivers for multiple-string LEDs have been widely used in general lighting due to their low cost, simplicity, low electromagnetic interference (EMI), and high reliability. However, in conventional mul

Modern SoC designs employed in battery-life-constrained mobile applications feature multiple power domains to dynamically scale power-performance tradeoffs in response to application demands. Since each power domain requ

1.3 shows the circuit implementation of the low-power PI used in the phase DAC. The PI stage consists of two complementary parts, each interpolating between the rising or falling edges of the two input clocks, respective

capabilities to acquire imagery during night and inclement weather is indispensable for remote sensing, traffic mapping, etc. Recent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been miniaturized to <1m3, providing an inexpensiv

Noriaki Nagashima1, Jun Emmei1, Masato Dome1, Hisashi Kato1, Jian Pang1, Yoichi Kawano2, Toshihide Suzuki2, Taisuke Iwai2, Yuuki Seo1, Kimsrun Lim1, Shinji Sato1, Li Ning1, Kengo Nakata1, Kenichi Okada1, Akira Matsuzawa1

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1 2 High-capacity microwave systems demand high-efficiency transmit architectures that support complex waveforms with high peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) modulation. The ou

Kristof Vaesen1, Davide Guermandi1, Vito Giannini1,3, Steven Brebels1, Fortunato Frazzica1, André Bourdoux1, Charlotte Soens1, Wim Van Thillo1, Piet Wambacq1,2 imec, Heverlee, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel

Shinji Sato, Satoshi Kondo, Tomohiro Ueno, Teerachot Siriburanon, Shoutarou Maki, Bangan Liu, Yun Wang, Noriaki Nagashima, Masaya Miyahara, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan It is

communication systems is dominated by the tradeoff between cost and performance. While the former claims ever-smaller footprints and bill of materials (BOM), the latter comprises a stringent set of requirements regarding

substitute due to their ease of use and suitability for advanced applications, such as gaming and augmented reality (AR) [1-2]. Most current HMD systems suffer from: 1) a lack of rich user interfaces, 2) short battery li

forward-collision warning, advanced emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane-keeping assistance. Recently, automotive black boxes are installed in cars for tracking accidents or theft. In this paper, a dual-m

applications, such as unmanned delivery services. The robots, shown in Fig. 14.3.1, have enhanced controllers that realize AI functions, such as perception (information extraction) and cognition (decision making). Histor

Sudhir K. Satpathy, Steven K. Hsu, Amit Agarwal, Ram K. Krishnamurthy Intel, Hillsboro, OR Energy-efficient k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) computations are key building blocks for computer vision, classification, and machine-l

Nvidia, Westford, MA 1 2 Deep learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) gives state-of-the-art accuracy on many computer vision tasks (e.g. object detection, recognition, segmentation). Convolutions account for

Internet-ofEverything (IoE) devices to data center servers for intelligent recognition processes is impractical for energy reasons, requiring in-situ processing of such data. However, algorithms accelerated by previous r

Jiayi Zhu, Yijin Zhao, Jinjia Zhou, Shuping Zhang, Shinji Kimura, Takeshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Goto Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan 8K Ultra HD is being promoted as the next-generation digital video format. From a com

Technology advancement has recently made it attractive to replace the flash quantizer (QTZ) in a multibit ΔΣ modulator by an asynchronous successiveapproximation-register (ASAR) QTZ to improve the overall power efficienc

Shagun Bajoria1, Jan Niehof1, Robert Rutten1, Bert Oude-Essink2, Franco Fritschij2, Jagdip Singh2, Gerard Lassche2 NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Catena Microelectronics, Delft, The Netherlands 1 2 The t

DEE, FCT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, CTS-UNINOVA, Caparica, Portugal 1 2 ΔΣM performance can be improved by using MASH or SMASH structures to obtain higher-order noise shaping [1]. They have better

IIT Madras, Chennai, India Many industrial applications require high-resolution ADCs whose low-frequency performance is important. CTDSMs are attractive due to their implicit antialiasing and resistive inputs. However, t

Cambridge, MA 1 2 The width of RF bands commonly used for cellular telecommunications has grown from 35-to-75MHz for 2G/3G/4G platforms to 100-to-200MHz for today’s LTE, and the desire for relaxed image-rejection filteri

baseband ADC of an LTE-A receiver. To boost user throughput and increase network capacity, CT-DSMs will need to increase signal bandwidth (BW) while maintaining sufficient dynamic range (DR) and good power efficiency. Fo

stereo channels to achieve effective acoustic noise and echo cancellation, thus demanding ADCs with low power and minimal die area. Zoom-ADCs should be well suited for such applications, since they combine compact and en

West Silicon EURL, Hottot les Bagues, France 1 2 Efforts to improve the resolution and power-efficiency of ADCs continue unabated, as is well documented in [2]. Although the number of new switchedcapacitor (SC) ADC publi