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lifestyle of all society. AI technology is widely used in most information hardware, software, and networking, underlying all consumer technology: smartphones, home appliances, and the Web. Figure 1.2.1 shows 3 main appl

photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is rapidly growing. Photonic integration which is now the dominant technology in high-bandwidth and longdistance telecommunications is increasingly applied to shorter distances within

The 5G era is upon us, ushering in new opportunities for technology innovation across the computing and connectivity landscape. The advent of the Internet of Things has resulted in the generation of massive amount of dat

to determine billable energy consumption. These devices are factory calibrated, and then perform measurement without interruption over their lifetime. Once in the field their accuracy is unknown due to component aging and

Keijiro Mori, Naoki Mori, Akira Matsumoto, Hideto Kazama, Yudai Kamada, Atsushi Isobe, Tomonori Sekiguchi Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan In emerging applications such as next-generation oil and gas exploration and infrastructure

energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (>0.25mm2) and have lower operating temperatures (≤125°C) [2-4]. This work describes a 0.12mm2 resistor-based sensor that uses

Temperature sensors intended for embedded applications should be both energyand area-efficient. The combination of Wheatstone-bridge (WhB) sensors and continuous-time ADCs has proven to be highly energy efficient [1,2]. Ho

Institute for Neurotechnology, Singapore, Singapore 1 2 Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is an ultrasound sonogram that visualizes the anatomical structure of the heart in real time, with a mm-scale catheter inserted

Rituraj Singh1, Nader Gamini1, Davood Shahrjerdi2, Robert G. Kuimelis1, Arjang Hassibi1 InSilixa, Sunnyvale, CA New York University, New York, NY 1 2 Electro-analytical (E-chem) biosensors offer unique advantages over wi

dedicated blood supply to provide oxygen and nutrients. Therefore, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a signal protein produced by cells stimulating angiogenesis, is considered as a key biomarker in clinical diag

Magnetic biosensors have drawn significant research interest as a means to replace large optical instrumentation commonly found in centralized diagnostic laboratories. Magnetic biosensing is attractive since biological sa

Laurent Moreaux3, Michael L. Roukes3, Kenneth L. Shepard1 Columbia University, New York, NY KIST, Seoul, Korea 3 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1 out of Geiger mode after sufficient decay of the fluorescent s

Toshinari Watanabe1,2, Hiroaki Honjo1,2, Hiroki Koike1,2, Takashi Nasuno1,2, Yitao Ma1, Takaho Tanigawa1,2, Yasuo Noguchi1,2, Mitsuo Yasuhira1,2, Hideo Sato1, Shoji Ikeda1,2, Hideo Ohno1, Tetsuo Endoh1,2, Takahiro Hanyu1

Toshihiko Takeuchi1, Kousei Nei1, Takako Seki1, Yuto Yakubo1, Kei Takahashi1, Shuji Fukai1, Takahiko Ishizu1, Munehiro Kozuma1, Ryota Tajima1, Takanori Matsuzaki1, Takayuki Ikeda1, Makoto Ikeda2, Shunpei Yamazaki1 Semico

M. Miakashi1, Y. Nagadomi1, T. Nakano1, T. Kawabe1, T. Shibuya1, M. Sako1, K. Yanagidaira1, T. Hashimoto1, H. Date1, M. Sato1, T. Nakagawa1, H. Takamoto1, J. Musha1, T. Minamoto1, M. Uda1, D. Nakamura1, K. Sakurai1, T. Y

Tanaya Sahu, Juan Alzate-vinasco, Ajay Vangapaty, Mesut Meterelliyoz, Nathan Strutt, Albert B. Chen, Patrick Hentges, Pedro A. Quintero, Chris Connor, Oleg Golonzka, Kevin Fischer, Fatih Hamzaoglu Intel, Hillsboro, OR A

Nilanjan Das, Kevin Fischer, Tahir Ghani, Oleg Golonzka, Patrick Hentges, Rawshan Jahan, Pulkit Jain, Blake Lin, Mesut Meterelliyoz, Jim O’Donnell, Conor Puls, Pedro Quintero, Tanaya Sahu, Meenakshi Sekhar, Ajay Vangapat

for the verify operations. Dongku Kang, Minsu Kim, Su Chang Jeon, Wontaeck Jung, Jooyong Park, Gyosoo Choo, Dong-kyo Shim, Anil Kavala, Seung-Bum Kim, Kyung-Min Kang, Jiyoung Lee, Kuihan Ko, Hyun-Wook Park, Byung-Jun Min

Noboru Shibata2, Kapil Verma1, Takuya Ariki1, Jason Li1, Jong Yuh1, Anirudh Amarnath1, Qui Nguyen1, Ohwon Kwon1, Stanley Jeong1, Heguang Li1, Hua-Ling Hsu1, Tai-yuan Tseng1, Steve Choi1, Siddhesh Darne1, Pradeep Anantula

Artificial swarm intelligence, inspired by biological studies of insects, ants and other organisms, present an emerging computing paradigm, where seemingly simple elements interact with each other to collectively solve ch

factors in the energy and performance of both general purpose CPUs and GPUs. This has led to extensive research focused on in-memory computing, which moves computation to where the data is located. With this approach, co

William Hwang1, Seungbin Jeong1, Haitong Li1, Pulkit Tandon1, Elisa Vianello2, Pascal Vivet2, Etienne Nowak2, Mary K. Wootters1, H.-S. Philip Wong1, Mohamed M. Sabry Aly3, Edith Beigne2, Subhasish Mitra1 Stanford Univers

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) provide superior classification accuracy in a variety of machine learning applications, such as image/speech/sensor data processing. However, CNNs require intensive compute and memory r

University of Washington, Seattle, WA Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs) play an important role in enabling fine-grained supply-voltage domains for energy-efficient SoC design [1]. Digital LDOs are of particular interest due to

Shuo Li, Benton H. Calhoun University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Voltage regulators for emerging nW-to-μW Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems-onchip (SoCs) require ultra-low quiescent power to enhance lifetime, a larg

Khondker Z. Ahmed, Krishnan Ravichandran, James Tschanz, Vivek De Intel, Hillsboro, OR Complex SoCs in scaled CMOS processes integrate a large variety of digital, SRAM and noise-sensitive mixed-signal/analog circuit bloc

Jeonghyun Choi, Takahiro Nomiyama, Jaeyeol Han, Younghwan Choo, Yongsik Youn, Euiyoung Park, Sungjun Lee, Ik-Hwan Kim, Jongwoo Lee, Thomas Byunghak Cho, Inyup Kang Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea In the recent 3GPP

(mm-wave) bands requires a low-cost antenna module consisting of a phased-array transceiver with beamforming [1], an antenna array, and a power management IC (PMIC). Since a typical on-chip mm-wave CMOS power-amplifier (P

devices charged by a wireless-power-transfer (WPT) system has become more common as illustrated in Fig. 15.3.1. A wide-power-range (no load ~100W), compact, and efficient WPT system needs to include the following features

wide field of applications to guarantee human safety or better reliability in harsh industrial environments. The transfer of both data and power across an isolation barrier is often an essential requisite in these applica

automation systems. Employing galvanic isolation in the transceivers of such networks has become an essential requisite to guarantee safety and better reliability in harsh industrial environment. For industrial transceiv

With superior figure of merits, GaN switchs are highly anticipated to replace MOSFETs in high-performance power circuits [1,2]. However, GaN technology today still faces formidable reliability challenges [3]. While GaN de

GaN power switches have gained fast-growing popularity in power electronics. With a similar RDS_ON resistance, they boast 2-to-3-order lower gate capacitance than silicon counterparts, making them highly desirable in hig

Active gate control is an emerging technique to minimize the switching loss of highpower converters facing noise-suppression challenges. In a conventional gate-driver design, a fixed value of gate resistance is chosen by

exponentially increased for Systems on Chip (SoC). A fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) is one of the most important building blocks in SoCs for a variety of applications, such as frequency synthesis for wireless trans

have ultra-low phase noise (PN) is very important for the design of RF transceivers (TRXs) for high-data-rate 5G systems. Direct-RF-sampling TRXs also require high-frequency clock signals, having extremely low integrated

Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Low-jitter phase-locked loops (PLLs) are critical building blocks in various systems, including wireless and wireline communications and ADCs. LC osci

There is need for a low-power, compact, means of generating multiple, low-jitter, spectrally pure, clock signals at different frequencies using a single reference oscillator, both in wireline and wireless applications, o

11ax WLAN standard improves the throughput by supporting 1024-QAM in a channel bandwidth of 160MHz, demanding extremely low jitter values for the transmitter (Tx) and the receiver (Rx) synthesizers. Recent work has achie

standards, such as WiFi 802.11ax with a 1024-QAM mode, require RF clocks with extremely low integrated phase error and low spurs. Because of their good scalability, digital phase-locked loops (DPLLs) have been widely stu

Alessandro Garghetti, Carlo Samori, Andrea L. Lacaita, Salvatore Levantino Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Digital phase-locked loops (DPLLs) have been demonstrated to achieve excellent performance as fractional-N fr

Rui P. Martins1,2 University of Macau, Macau, China Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Recent mm-wave PLLs have explored different architectures to enhance their jitter performance at l

Stefano Tulisi4, Sanganagouda Patil4, Ciarán Curtin4, Stephen Brookes4, Brian Shelly4, Patrick Griffin4, Michael Keaveney4 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland, Dublin, Irelan

(AI) was first used. In those days it was also called as symbolic AI (Symbolic-AI) [1]. For example, let us assume a block world problem in Fig 17.1.1 (right), where a block is represented as a symbol, “Block1”, and it ca

one of the most widely used sensing modalities to intelligently assess the environment. In particular, ultra-low power (ULP) always-on voice activity detection (VAD) is gaining attention as an enabling technology for IoT

Sigurd Wagner, James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ *Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) Tactile sensing has wide-ranging applications, from intelligent surfaces to advanced robotics. Large-Area E

Nagaraj Krishnasawamy1, Hadi Najar2, Suman Bellary2, Wei-Yan Shih1, Scott Summerfelt1, Steven Bartling1 Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 Ultra-low Power Microcontrollers (MCUs) [1-4] h

Sina Faraji Alamouti, Cem Yalcin, Benjamin C. Johnson, Jose M. Carmena, Michel M. Maharbiz, Rikky Muller University of California, Berkeley, CA Miniaturization of implantable neural recording systems to micron-scale volu

Emerging wearable devices such as wireless headphones, smart glasses, and medical monitors require increasingly high-throughput wireless communications at ultra-low-power. Since far-field RF has significant path loss aroun

million cases of skin cancer were treated in over 3.3 million people in the U.S. in 2012, and more people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all other cancers combined in the U.S. [1]. Because a malignant lesi