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electrical link technology to support 400Gb/s standards is underway [1-5]. Physical constraints paired to the small area available to dissipate heat, impose limits to the maximum number of serial interfaces and therefore

Jin Namkoong, Winson Lin, Jay Im, Parag Upadhyaya, Ken Chang Xilinx, San Jose, CA Due to increasing bandwidth demand in data centers and telecommunication infrastructures, the maximum data-rate of wireline transceivers i

Muhammad Abozaed, Yair Talker, Ziv Shmuely, Saher Abu Rahme transitions in the victim neighborhood circuits should not exceed a crosstalk limit during normal operation. Another parameter that must be factored is reliabil

Ravinder Rachala1, Sriram Sambamurthy1, Steven Liepe2, Miguel Rodriguez2, Tom Burd3, Adam Clark4, Michael Austin1, Samuel Naffziger2 AMD, Austin, TX, AMD, Fort Collins, CO, 3 AMD, Sunnyvale, CA, 4 AMD, Markham, ON, Canad

C.J. Chung1, Sumanth Gururajarao1, Ping Kao2, Anand Rajagopalan1, Anirban Saha3, Amit Jain4, Ericbill Wang2, Shichin Ouyang5, Huajun Wen1, Achuta Thippana1, HsinChen Chen1, Syed Rahman1, Minh Chau1, Anshul Varma1, Brian

Chi Lan Phuong Nguyen2, Tetsuya Shibayama1, Kenichi Iwata1, Katsuya Mizumoto1, Takahiro Irita3, Hirotaka Hara3, Toshihiro Hattori1 Renesas System Design, Tokyo, Japan, Renesas Design Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 3

car information systems (commonly referred to as car infotainment) is expanding from dedicated navigation systems to joint car-cockpit systems, including the dashboard meter, telematics for the internet/cloud, and advanc

many application areas, such as IoT and wearables. While for some applications, integer and fixed-point processor instructions suffice, others (e.g. simultaneous localization and mapping – SLAM, stereo vision, nonlinear

Zhe Yuan1, Chien-Chen Lin2, Qi Wei1, Yu Wang1, Ya-Chin King2, Chrong-Jung Lin2, Pedram Khalili3, Kang-Lung Wang3, Meng-Fan Chang2, Huazhong Yang1 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinch

Low-offset and low-noise operational amplifiers (OpAmps) are essential for precision measurement systems. Applications such as precision weigh scales, sensor front-ends, bridge transducers, interfaces for thermocouple se

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, Korea, 3 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 1 2 Relaxation oscillators have a profound scope as on-chip reference clock sources or sensor fr

A high power-supply rejection ratio (PSRR) and high-linearity Class-D audio amplifier (CDA) becomes important as the CDA is directly connected to a battery supply for efficiency considerations in mobile phone application

Thomas Holm Hansen1, Allan Nogueras Nielsen1,2, Hans Hasselby-Andersen1 Merus Audio, Herlev, Denmark, Now at Knowles Corporation, Roskilde, Denmark 1 2 The consumer electronics trends of miniaturization and portability h

In low-bandwidth, low-noise applications of wireless sensor nodes, the sensor front-end amplifier presents a power-consumption bottleneck since its current draw is noise-limited and cannot be scaled with the low data-rat

Modern neuromodulation requires closed-loop functionality, where neural recordings are used to adapt stimulation patterns in real time. A closed-loop system requires the neural sensing front-end to record small neural si

Cross-coupled pairs are certainly among the most widely adopted fundamental circuits still in use today. This elegant device arrangement yields broadband positive feedback with high gain and low power, desirable features

frequency of 12Hz. The active resistor of 27MΩ with a size of 1800μm2 is achieved with a multiplication of RBIAS (= 80kΩ) by (W/L)M1 / (W/L)M3. 500pF is achieved with a multiplication of CLPF (= 50pF) by the gain (≈ 10)

under restricted battery capacity due to their size [1]. Due to low duty cycles in many sensing applications, sleep-mode power can dominate the total energy budget. Wakeup timers are a key always-on component in such sle

Wireless nodes in Internet-of-Everything (IoE) applications achieve low power consumption by operating the radio at very low duty cycles. The wireless node spends most of its time in sleep, waking only occasionally to tr

Masaaki Yanagida, Tokuhiko Tamaki, Masayuki Takase, Hidenari Kanehara, Masashi Murakami, Yasunori Inoue Panasonic, Moriguchi, Japan Image sensors are increasingly becoming key devices for various applications (in-vehicle

in-vehicle cameras, and surveillance cameras require a global shutter (GS) function. GS functions are an increasingly powerful technology driver, not only for solving imaging problems caused by rolling shutter distortion

Bart Ceulemans, Guy Meynants, Navid Sarhangnejad, Gavril Arsinte, Victor Statescu, Sonja van der Groen CMOSIS NV, Antwerp, Belgium In today’s airborne mapping applications, there is a strong push towards higher-resolutio

Daisuke Yoshida, Yasushi Matsuno, Masanobu Ohmura, Hidekazu Takahashi, Katsuhito Sakurai, Takeshi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Shunsuke Inoue Canon, Kawasaki, Japan Recently, there has been strong demand for high-resolu

Recent technology surveys identified flash light detection and ranging technology as the best choice for the navigation and landing of spacecrafts in extraplanetary missions, working from single-point altimeter to range-

sensors such as camcorders, digital still cameras, mobile phones, and surveillance cameras. Even though leading-edge image sensors have reached the noise floor of a few electrons [1,2], a thrust towards darker levels sti

2e-, 3D-stacked CMOS image sensor (CIS) for mobile applications. A key motivation for using a stacked configuration is to minimize the chip area. Also, since numerous components must be integrated into the bottom chip, a

image sensors. In addition, 3D stacking separates pixel array and peripheral circuits. As such, computational imaging blocks (stereo vision, array camera, reconfigurable instruction cell array, etc.) can integrate with s

Hiroshi Shimamoto1, Tomohiko Kosugi2, Sungwook Jun2, Satoshi Aoyama2, Ming-Chieh Hsu3, Yuichiro Yamashita3, Hirofumi Sumi3, Shoji Kawahito2,4 NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, Brookman Technol

Yong Sung Cho, Kyung-Tae Kang, Jinho Ryu, Kyung-Min Kang, Sungyeon Lee, Wandong Kim, Hanjun Lee, Jaedoeg Yu, Nayoung Choi, Dong-Su Jang, Jeong-Don Ihm, Doogon Kim, Young-Sun Min, Moo-Sung Kim, An-Soo Park, Jae-Ick Son, I

Keiichi Kushida1, Atsushi Kawasumi1, Hiroyuki Hara1, Keiko Abe1, Naoharu Shimomura1, Junichi Ito1, Shinobu Fujita1, Takashi Nakada2, Hiroshi Nakamura2 Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 1 2 Two p

Tzu-Hsiang Su1,3, Keng-Hao Yang3, Tien-Fu Chen3, Tien-Yen Wang1, Hsiang-Pang Li1, Matthew BrightSky4, SangBum Kim4, Hsiang-Lam Lung1, Chung Lam4 Macronix International, Hsinchu, Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, Hsi

Yen-Ning Chiang1, Hsiang-Jen Tsai3, Geng-Hau Yang3, Ya-Chin King1, Chrong Jung Lin1, Tien-Fu Chen3, Meng-Fan Chang1 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3 National Chiao Tung University,

Sung-won Yun, Min-su Kim, Jong-hoon Lee, Minseok Kim, Kangbin Lee, Taeeun Kim, Byungkyu Cho, Dooho Cho, Sangbum Yun, Jung-no Im, Hyejin Yim, Kyung-hwa Kang, Suchang Jeon, Sungkyu Jo, Yang-lo Ahn, Sung-Min Joe, Suyong Kim

Takashi Hashimoto2, Hideaki Yamakoshi2, Shinichiro Abe2, Takashi Kono1, Yasuhiko Taito1, Takashi Ito1, Takashi Krafuji1, Kenji Noguchi1, Hideto Hidaka1, Tadaaki Yamauchi1 Renesas Electronics, Kodaira, Japan, Renesas Elec

Koichi Kawai1, Jae-Kwan Park2, Shigekazu Yamada1, Feng Pan2, Yuichi Einaga1, Ali Ghalam2, Toru Tanzawa1, Jason Guo2, Takaaki Ichikawa1, Erwin Yu2, Satoru Tamada1, Tetsuji Manabe1, Jiro Kishimoto1, Yoko Oikawa1, Yasuhiro

Christian Bernard1, Florian Darve1, Didier Lattard1, Ivan Miro-Panades1, Cristiano Santos1, Fabien Clermidy1, Severine Cheramy1, Frederic Petrot2, Eric Flamand3, Jean Michailos4 CEA-LETI-MINATEC, Grenoble, France, Tima L

Modern SoC designs employ a number of power domains, many of which are often implemented by low-drop-out (LDO) regulators. The key overhead of the existing LDO design is the large off-chip output capacitor (Cout) for com

Tae-Hwang Kong2, Dae-Yong Kim2, Kwang-Ho Kim2, Sang-Ho Kim2, Jae-Jin Park2, Ho-Jin Park2, Gyu-Hyeong Cho1 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea 1 2 A modern mobile application processor (AP) require

circuits to lower intrinsic VMIN, retention flops to reduce leakage power during stall periods, and a fully integrated hybrid digital LDO/SCVR regulator to provide a cost-effective means to realize autonomous DVFS under

Seokhyeon Jeong1, Kaiyuan Yang1, Myungjoon Choi1, ZhiYoong Foo1, Suyoung Bang1, Sechang Oh1, Dennis Sylvester1, David Blaauw1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Korea University, Seoul, Korea 1 As Internet-of-Things

Stephen G. Tell1, Thomas H. Greer III1, C. Thomas Gray1, William J. Dally2 Nvidia, Durham, NC, 2Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA 1 Signaling over chip-scale global interconnect is consuming a larger fraction of total power in lar

keys or chip IDs based on intrinsic properties of each chip itself [1-2]. PUFs are a step forward to improve the security level compared to traditional NVM (nonvolatile memory) solutions (FUSEs, EEPROM/FLASH, etc.) becau

M. Alioto2, D. Blaauw1, D. Sylvester1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 1 2 It is well known that technology scaling has led to increasing process/voltage/tempe

S. Uppathil1, S. Kaylor1, A. Akour1, V. Wang1, M. Fares1, F. Dulger1, A. Frank1, D. Ghosh1, S. Madhavapeddi1, H. Safiri1, J. Mehta1, A. Jain1, H. Choo1, E. Zhang1, C. Sestok1, C. Fernando1, Rajagopal K.A. 2, S. Ramakrish

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1 2 Multiple-antenna receivers offer numerous advantages over single-antenna receivers, including sensitivity improvement, ability to reject interferers spatially and enhancement of

To meet the demands of ever-increasing data throughput, carrier aggregation (CA) across frequency bands is becoming necessary. Different regional spectrum allocations lead to a large number of band combinations and chall

Renaldi Winoto1, Ashkan Olyaei1, Mohammad Hajirostam1, Wai Lau1, Xiang Gao1, Arnab Mitra1, Ovidiu Carnu1, Philip Godoy1, Luns Tee1, Hao Li1, Erdem Erdogan1, Alden Wong1, Qiang Zhu1, Timothy Loo1, Fan Zhang1, Liwei Sheng1

Dimitris Papadopoulos1, Bryan Huang1, Ray Chen1, Hua Wang1, WH Hsu2, CH Wu2, Osama Shanaa1 MediaTek, San Jose, CA, MediaTek, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 Digital transmitters (DTX) have gained interest in the past few years becau

-246.6dB-FOM, Fractional-N Subsampling PLL Nereo Markulic1,2, Kuba Raczkowski1, Ewout Martens1, Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho1,2, Benjamin Hershberg1, Piet Wambacq1,2, Jan Craninckx1 imec, Leuven, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit

Full-duplex (FD) is an emergent wireless communication paradigm where the transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) operate at the same time and at the same frequency. The fundamental challenge with FD is the tremendous amo