2017

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Recent advances in circuits have enabled significant reduction in the size of wireless systems such as implantable biomedical devices. As a consequence, the battery integrated in the

University of California, Los Angeles, CA Biomedical implants are often powered by an external source via an inductivelycoupled wireless power link. During actual use the distance between the external and implant coils m

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming the dominant lighting source over their conventional counterparts. Besides the benefits of high efficiency and long lifetime, LEDs also show great potential for high-speed data t

Cristian Chetreanu1, Stefan Dietrich1, Fabien Funfrock1, Marcos Alvarez Gonzalez1, Thomas Hein1, Eugen Huber1, Daniel Lauber1, Milena Ivanov1, Maksim Kuzmenka1, Chris Mohr2, Francisco Emiliano Munoz1, Juan Ocon Garrido1,

Kihan Kim, Young Choi, Ho-Jun Chang, Jonghyuk Kim, Jong-Min Bang, Seungjun Shin, Hanna Park, Sujin Park, Young-Ryeol Choi, Hoon Lee, Kyong-Ho Jeon, Jae-Young Lee, Hyo-Joo Ahn, Kyoung-Ho Kim, Jung-Sik Kim, Soobong Chang,

Mun Seon Jang, Yongsuk Joo, Seung-Hun Lee, Woo Young Lee, Eunryeong Lee, Donghee Han, Jaeyeol Kang, Jung Ho Lim, Jae-Beom Park, Kyung-Tae Kim, Sunki Cho, Sung Woo Han, Jee Yeon Keh, Jun Hyun Chun, Jonghoon Oh, Seok Hee L

Gong-Heum Han, Hye-Ran Kim, Jong-Ho Lee, Min-Su Jang, Sung-Geun Do, Seung-Hyun Cho, Jae-Koo Park, Su-Yeon Doo, Jung-Bum Shin, Sang-Hoon Jung, Hyoung-Ju Kim, In-Ho Im, Beob-Rae Cho, Jae-Woong Lee, Jae-Youl Lee, Ki-Hun Yu,

Jihyae Bae1, Tsuneo Inaba2, Hiromi Noro2, Hyunin Moon1, Sungwoong Chung1, Kazumasa Sunouchi2, Jinwon Park1, Kiseon Park1, Akihito Yamamoto2, Seoungju Chung1, Hyeongon Kim1, Hisato Oyamatsu2, Jonghoon Oh1 SK hynix Semicon

Kyounghoi Koo, Jongryun Choi, Yoonjee Nam, Sangsoo Park, Hyungkweon Lee, Eunsu Kim, Sukhyun Jung, Kwanyeob Chae, Suho Kim, Sanghune Park, Sanghyun Lee, Sungho Park Samsung Electronics, Hwasung, Korea Although the LPDDR4

Single-ended transceivers are mostly used for DRAM interfaces to reduce pin count. A low-supply transceiver is preferred, especially for mobile DRAM interfaces, for low-power consumption while maintaining a high-speed in

smartphones and tablet PCs [1, 2]. Since mobile DRAM standard (LPDDR), for the next generation, targets the speed specification of 51.2GB/s, its I/O interface demands high bandwidth, low power and high efficiency. Single

Chun-Peng Wu1, Chun-Kai Wang1, Chun-Wei Lo1, Li-Chin Tien1, Der-Min Yuan1, Yung-Ching Hsieh1, Jenn-Shiang Lai2, Wen-Pin Hsu2, Chien-Chih Huang2, Chi-Kang Chen2, Yung-Fa Chou2, Ding-Ming Kwai2, Zhe Wang3, Wei Wu3, Shigeki

Johan Dijkhuis1, Robert Bogdan Staszewski2,3, Christian Bachmann1, Kathleen Philips1 Holst Centre / imec, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 3 University College Dublin, D

Digital receiver (RX) arrays featuring ADCs at each element enable massive multiin-multi-out (MIMO) applications, but since spatial interference rejection is absent in the RF/analog domain, RF/analog/ADC dynamic range is

high-linearity up-front filtering to prevent corruption of the in-band signals by strong out-of-band (OOB) signals and selfinterference from the transmitter. SAW duplexer filters are generally used for this purpose, but

Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 1 2 For true mobility, wearable electronics should be self-powered by the environment. On-body thermoelectric (~50μW/cm2) is a maturing energy source but deliv

Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Drew A. Hall, Patrick P. Mercier University of California, San Diego, CA Wake-up receivers (WuRXs) are low-power radios that continuously monitor the RF environment to wake up a higher-power radio upon

Programmable receiver front-ends have been a topic of enormous interest in recent years. Both N-path filtering [1,2] and charge-domain filtering [2] achieve sharp filtering but suffer from poor matching [1] or high noise

Belgium 1 2 The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is gaining momentum, and the ultra-low-power (ULP) RF transceiver is one of the key enablers. Generation of the local oscillator (LO) consumes a significant share of the total ene

Haoyang Li1, Kunal Godbole1, Yongrong Zuo1, Sangsoo Ko2, Nam-Seog Kim2, Sangwook Han2, Ikkyun Jo2, Joonhee Lee2, Juyoung Han2, Daehyeon Kwon2, Chulho Kim2, Shinwoong Kim2, Sang Won Son1, Thomas Byunghak Cho2 Samsung Semi

Masato Dome, Hisashi Kato, Makihiko Katsuragi, Kento Kimura, Satoshi Kondo, Yuki Terashima, Hanli Liu, Teerachot Siriburanon, Aravind Tharayil Narayanan, Nurul Fajri, Tohru Kaneko, Toru Yoshioka, Bangan Liu, Yun Wang, Ru

industrial system reliability in hostile environments. They are exposed to destructive surge voltages, which are caused by ground current spikes from operation transitions of machinery and motor drives, endangering circu

applications, DC-DC converters are widely employed [1]. However, size and thermal limits have made it challenging to continue using standard CMOS-based converters. Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETs, on the other hand, have a mu

The MN1 control and supply circuit (Fig. 25.3.2 bottom) turns on MN1 via MN2, controlled by level shifter LS. D2 prevents discharging of the MN2 gate capacitance, when node GMN1 rises. D3 ensures 5V-over-voltage protecti

Kumar Anurag Shrivastava1, Madhulatha Bonu1, Benjamin Sutton2, Venugopal Gopinathan1, Ganesan Thiagarajan1, Abhijit Patki1, Jhankar Malakar1, Nagendra Krishnapura3 Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India Texas Instruments, D

Richard Rizzolo3, Tobias Webel4, Thomas Strach4, Otto Torreiter4, Preetham Lobo5, Alper Buyuktosunoglu1, Ramon Bertran1, Michael Floyd6, Malcolm Ware6, Gerard Salem7, Sean Carey8, Phillip Restle1 IBM Research, Yorktown H

Clock network optimization is substantially affected by the operating voltage VDD, as the clock skew is dominated by different mechanisms and has a different balance between wire and repeater delay at different VDD (Fig.

Clock distribution in modern SoCs consumes a significant fraction of total chip power. To reduce clock distribution power, resonant clocking schemes, where an inductive reactance is used to cancel the capacitive reactanc

Pawel Owczarczyk3, Eric J. Fluhr1, Joshua Friedrich1, Paul Muench3, Timothy Diemoz3, Pierce Chuang2, Christos Vezyrtzis2 IBM, Austin, TX IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY 3 IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY 1 2 Increasing transistor counts

Closed-loop neuromodulation with simultaneous stimulation and sensing is desired to administer therapy in patients suffering from drug-resistant neurological ailments. However, stimulation generates large artifacts at th

monitoring of the quantitative anesthesia (ANES) depth level for safe surgery [1]. However, the current ANES depth monitoring approach, bispectral index (BIS) [3], uses only EEG from the frontal lobe, and it shows critic

M. Tariqus Salam3, Peter Carlen2,4, Jose Luiz Perez Velazquez2, Roman Genov2 York University, Toronto, Canada University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 3 GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Stevenage, United Kingdom 4 Toronto Western Ho

Jonas Reber2, Josip Marjanovic2, Thomas Burger1, David O. Brunner2, Klaas P. Prüssmann2, Gerhard Tröster1, Qiuting Huang1 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 1 2 Magnetic Resona

in medical ultrasound rely on 3D volumetric imaging, calling for dense 2D transducer arrays with thousands of elements. Due to this high channel count, the traditional per-element cable interface used for 1D arrays is no

Tatsuo Nakagawa2, Yasuyuki Okuma3, Yohei Nakamura2, Takahide Terada2, Yutaka Igarashi1, Taizo Yamawaki2, Toru Yazaki1, Yoshihiro Hayashi2, Kazuhiro Amino2, Takuya Kaneko2, Hiroki Tanaka2 Hitachi, Yokohama, Japan Hitachi,

invasive miniaturized solutions that operate reliably at large depths, provide duplex communication for closed-loop therapies, and enable multi-access for a network of implants to gather information or provide systemic i

Next-generation IoT systems are expected to be enabled by compact, low-cost, low-power, smart sensing devices that provide a wealth of information to build new applications and capabilities. Among sensing modalities, opt

The successive approximation register (SAR) ADC is the most energy efficient architecture with moderate conversion rate and resolution. However, its comparator noise limits its resolution without sacrificing power effici

Quantizers are key building blocks in both continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) delta-sigma modulators (DSMs). Among various types of quantizers, noiseshaping quantizers such as VCO-based quantizers and noise-shap

MediaTek, Woburn, MA High-BW continuous-time ΔΣ modulators (CTDSMs), which directly inject excess loop delay compensation (ELDC) at the quantizer input, suffer from the over-range issue due to the 1+αz-1 transfer functio

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX 1 2 In high-speed pipeline or pipelined-SAR ADCs, conventional opamp-based residue amplifiers consume significant amounts of power due to stringent settling speed and accuracy requirements.

Alessandro Cevrero1, Ilter Ozkaya1, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 1 2 High-speed SAR ADCs became popular with modern CMOS technologies because of t

Irvine, CA 4 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1 2 High-resolution, low-power radiation-tolerant ADCs are under great demand from medical, aerospace and high-energy physics applications. In the ATLAS Liquid Argon

g. 802.11ac Wave 2 and 802.11ax draft, aim to boost user throughput to cope with growing data traffic. High-speed (fs>100MS/s) and highresolution (ENOB>9.5b) ADCs are essential for leading-edge wireless SoCs, given the b

Christian Menolfi1, Thomas Morf1, Matthias Brandli1, Dan Kuchta2, Lukas Kull1, Jon Proesel2, Marcel Kossel1, Danny Luu1, Benjamin Lee2, Fuad Doany2, Mounir Meghelli2, Yusuf Leblebici3, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Research, Rueschl

Mehdi Khanpour, Kangmin Hu, Tamer Ali, Heng Zhang, Hairong Yu, Ben Rhew, Shiwei Sheng, Yonghyun Shim, Bo Zhang, Afshin Momtaz Broadcom, Irvine, CA At rates of 100Gb/s and above, CMOS DSP-based transceivers integrated wit

Milos A. Popovic5, Vladimir Stojanovic1 University of California, Berkeley, CA Ayar Labs, San Francisco, CA 3 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 5 Boston University, Bo

Asymmetric links such as memory interfaces and display drivers require the transmitter to perform necessary equalization, while the receiver remains simple and has minimal or no equalization capability. Traditionally, FF

29.5.1 is generally adopted in an intra-panel interface due to the poor signal integrity of the multi-drop topology, data and clock channel skews and EMI emission from the forwarded clock signal channels. Clock recovery

This 2-step truncation and cancellation method provides higher order modulation while avoiding -1 to 1 and 1 to -1 jumps, which limits the needed DCDL range to 1 cycle of CKHF, independent of output frequency/data rate.