2018

Colin Lyden3, Yincai Liu1, Junbiao Ding4, Dennis Dempsey2, Leicheng Chen1, Donal Bourke3, Shurong Gu1, Jun Gao1, Lizhu Lu1, Li Wang1, Xuemin Li1, Hongxing Li5, Chao Chu1, Ling Yang1 Analog Devices, Beijing, China; 2Analo

Suzie Dufou1,2, Peter L. Carlen1,2, Michael Thompson1, Roman Genov1 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada 1 2 Potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) ions are the main signal carriers i

Inphi, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 Recent advancements in medical neural science and brain research have enabled the potential of uninterrupted simultaneous recording of thousands of neurons. To minimize the risk of infection to

Paul L. McEuen, Alyosha C. Molnar Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Recording neural activity in live animals in vivo poses several challenges. Electrical techniques typically require electrodes to be tethered to the outsid

Hyunsoo Ha1, Roland van Wegberg1, Erfan Sheikhi1, Massimo Mazzillo3, Giorgio Fallica3, Walter De Raedt2, Chris Van Hoof2,4, Nick Van Helleputte2 imec - Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 2imec, Leuven, Belgium 3 S

David Groppe2, Taufik A. Valiante3, Naveen Verma4, Roman Genov1 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Krembil Neuroscience Center, Toronto, Canada 3 Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada 4 Princeton University, Prin

Preetham Lobo3, Richard Rizzolo4, Tobias Webel2, Pawel Owczarczyk4, Alper Buyuktosunoglu1, Ramon Bertran1, David Hui4, Susan M. Eickhoff4, Michael Floyd5, Gerard Salem6, Sean Carey4, Stelios G. Tsapepas4, Phillip J. Rest

Naveen John, Visvesh S. Sathe University of Washington, Seattle, WA Integrated Voltage Regulation (IVR) using buck converters enables efficient, finegrained supply-voltage control in modern SoC domains [1]. However, exis

STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France 1 2 Worst-case design and post-silicon tuning are well established digital design practices reducing timing violations in presence of process, temperature, aging and voltage variations

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal the number of registers. The fine loop contains an 8b SR, controlling eight 1×s

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA 1 2 Integrated voltage regulators with a wide output current/voltage dynamic range are required to support fast dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (

Qualcomm, Singapore 1 2 With the die area of modern processors growing larger and larger, the IR drop across the power supply rail due to its parasitic resistance becomes considerable. There is an urgent demand for local

Modern DVFS-enabled SoCs require nimble supply regulators that rapidly respond to abrupt load changes and offer fine resolution (e.g., 12.5mV in [1], 10mV in

switching-frequency select signal FSEL[1:0]. Initially, the NLSC speeds up the switching frequency, where QBST[6:0] decreases by 1 every 2/3×T1 (=TR/(QN(MAX)-QN(MIN)) time periods. At the end, it slows down the clock fre

(SoC) to provide information about die temperature for thermal protection or performance optimization. To enable the deployment of multiple sensors in an SoC, the power and size of such sensors has been steadily reduced.

Temperature sensors based on Wheatstone bridges, e.g. [1,2], have recently achieved higher resolution and greater energy efficiency than conventional BJTbased sensors [3]. However, this comes at the expense of area, maki

Jieun Jang2, Junhyun Chun2, Kofi A. A. Makinwa3, Youngcheol Chae1 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; 2SK hynix, Icheon, Korea Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 1 3 In microprocessors and DRAMs, on-chip

This paper presents a fully integrated ±4A current sensor that supports a 25V input common-mode voltage range (CMVR) while operating from a single 1.5V supply. It consists of an on-chip metal shunt, a beyond-the-rails AD

Accurate current measurement is crucial in many biosensing applications, such as the detection of neurotransmitters [1] and the monitoring of intercellular molecular dynamics. This need has become even more critical rece

piezoresistive MEMS sensors, often configured in a Wheatstone bridge, are widely used to measure physical signals such as pressure [1-3], temperature [4], force [1], and gas concentration. A common method to realize a di

High-resolution read-out integrated circuits (ROICs) are often used in DC measurement systems such as bridge transducers. Since these typically output small-amplitude signals with a bandwidth of a few hertz, a highly lin

Kofi A. A. Makinwa1, Michiel Pertijs1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 3 ams AG, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1 2 The measurement of carbon-dioxide (CO2)

Kalapi Royneogi, Nagmohan Satti, Rizwan Qureshi, Wei Chen, Tom Wang, Hubert Hsieh, Sujal Vora, Eddie Wang Intel, Santa Clara, CA SkyLake-SP (Scalable Performance), code name SKX, is the next generation Xeon® server proce

Brian Bell4, Frank Malgioglio1, Guenter Mayer5, Dina Hamid1, Jesse Surprise1, David Wolpert1, Ofer Geva6, Bill Huott1, Leon Sigal2, Sean Carey1, Richard Rizzolo1, Ricardo Nigaglioni3, Mark Cichanowski3, Dureseti Chidamba

Execution-Unit Turbo, and Retentive Sleep in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS Pascal Meinerzhagen1, Carlos Tokunaga1, Andres Malavasi1, Vaibhav Vaidya1, Ashwin Mendon1, Deepak Mathaikutty1, Jaydeep Kulkarni1, Charles Augustine1, Minki

AMD, Fort Collins, CO 1 2 Codenamed “Zeppelin”, AMD’s next-generation System-on-a-Chip (SoC) was designed for use in multiple products and packages in multiple markets, including server, mainstream PC desktop, and high-e

Layer Security (DTLS)

Battery-indifferent sensor nodes require continuous operation in spite of the intermittently available battery energy, and hence require low peak-power operation to fit the fluctuating power made available by the harvest

Erkan Alpman1, Angela Nicoara1, Roman Popov1, Leonid Azarenkov1, Mikhail Moiseev1, Li Zhao1, Santosh Ghosh1, Rafael Misoczki1, Ankit Gupta2, Akhila M2, Sriram Muthukumar2, Saurabh Bhandari2, Yada Satish2, Kartik Jain2, R

Teruo Takagiwa1, Susumu Ozawa1, Jumpei Sato1, Yoshihiko Shindo1, Manabu Sato1, Naoaki Kanagawa1, Junji Musha1, Satoshi Inoue1, Katsuaki Sakurai1, Naohito Morozumi1, Ryo Fukuda1, Yuui Shimizu1, Toshifumi Hashimoto1, Xu Li

Daehyun Kim, Chulseung Lee, Youra Choi, Shine Kim, Dongku Kang, Geunyeong Yu, Jaehong Kim, Jaechun Park, Ki-Whan Song, Ki-Tae Park, Sangyeun Cho, Hwaseok Oh, Daniel DG Lee, Jin-Hyeok Choi, Jaeheon Jeong Samsung Electroni

Seungbum Kim, Kangbin Lee, Jisu Kim, Jiyoon Park, Han-Jun Lee, Minseok Kim, Seonyong Lee, SeonGeon Lee, Jinbae Bang, Dongjin Shin, Hwajun Jang, Deokwoo Lee, Nahyun Kim, Jonghoo Jo, Jonghoon Park, Sohyun Park, Youngsik Rh

many portable always-awake and multi-sensor systems, the power consumption is dominated by digital backend processing [1] for feature-computation and classification. Recent Analog-to-Information based innovations (see Fi

Aurel A. Lazar, Mingoo Seok Columbia University, New York, NY Voice user interfaces (UIs) are highly compelling for wearable and mobile devices. They have the advantage of using compact and ultra-low-power (ULP) input de

of microelectromechanical resonators in IC technology has been explored extensively over the past few decades in the effort to achieve onchip clocks, RF filters, and physical, chemical, and biological sensors. Various ap

Guillaume Waltener1, Robert Polster1, Olivier Dubray1, Florent Lepin1, Stéphane Bernabé1, Sylvie Menezo1, Gabriel Parès1, Olivier Castany1, Laura Boutafa1, Philippe Grosse1, Benoît Charbonnier1, Charles Baudot2 CEA-LETI-

and Technology, Ikoma, Japan 1 2 A sense-and-react closed-loop countermeasure is proposed against Laser Fault Injection (LFI) attack on a cryptographic processor core. A 286F2/cell distributed bulk-current sensor detects

University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 1 2 Thanks to their unmatched specificity, methods based on magnetic resonance effects are amongst the most powerful spectroscopic techniques available today. Out of these meth

Alessandro Cevrero1, Ilter Ozkaya1,3, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 3EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 1 2 Optical communication standards, such as ITU

over a wide bandwidth while consuming low power and small area [1] - [6]. In this work, a 16b 6GS/s Nyquist current-steering DAC in 16nm CMOS is presented. Utilizing bounded INL calibration and thermometer DEM to tackle

The agile allocation of signal bands over RF frequencies and high in-band spectral purity (both SFDR and NSD) can enable higher-order modulation in highthroughput flexible wireless/wireline transmitters, where signals ar

high-bandwidth mobile communications, 5G technology is targeted to support data-rates up to 10Gb/s. To reach this goal, one of challenging tasks for wireless transceivers is to generate millimeter-wave (mmW) band LO sign

Future cross-network and international roaming are attractive in mm-wave fifthgeneration (5G) wireless networks with multiband operations. The generation of an ultra-wide-bandwidth ultra-low-phase-noise (PN) local oscill

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4 STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France 1 3 The THz band has shown its unique characteristics and great potential in many applications. Harmonic oscilla

Rui P. Martins1,3 University of Macau, Macau, China University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Second-harmonic common-mode (CM) resonance has been

Fabio Padovan1, Fabio Quadrelli1,2, Matteo Bassi1, Marc Tiebout1, Andrea Bevilacqua2 Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria University of Padova, Padova, Italy 1 2 The relentless development of next-generation communica

Ying Cao1, Shaojun Ma1, Christophe Erdmann2, Brendan Farley2, Yohan Frans1, Ken Chang1 Xilinx, San Jose, CA; 2Xilinx, Dublin, Ireland 1 Direct-RF data converters [1,2] have seen increased adoption in remote-radiohead TX

Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 The growing development of industrial power supplies demands DC-DC converters that are increasingly efficient and reliable. Industrial bus supplies that operate from a front-end PFC

Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany 1 2 Due to their superior fast-switching performance, GaN transistors show enormous potential to enable compact power electronics in applications like renewable energy, elec

Xugang Ke, D. Brian Ma University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX High-frequency (fSW), wide-input (VIN) power converters have gained increasing popularity in automotive applications due to the heightening demand for