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University of Washington, Seattle, WA Ever-increasing global demand for communication bandwidth is incentivizing broader use of the millimeter wave (mm-Wave) frequency band which operates with carrier frequencies exceedi

cloud computing, have significantly driven the requirement for high transmission data rates. Polarization diversity coherent detection is an indispensable technique for realizing high-capacity transmission owing to its e

David J. Thomson2, Martin Ebert2, Li Ke2, Graham T. Reed2, Azita Emami1 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom 1 2 Data centers continue to require interco

High speed data links play a key role in industrial and medical systems. Galvanic isolation in high-speed links ensures the safety of human operators and instruments. Optoisolators generally achieve high voltage ratings

PAM-4 wireline transmitters operating at 224Gb/s can employ a 56GHz PLL for multiplexing. Such an environment poses several constraints on the design. First, the PLL rms jitter must be no more than a few percent of the s

Beyond-10GHz frequency synthesizers are ubiquitous building blocks for today’s evergrowing wireless and wireline communication systems. To meet the stringent requirements on data-rate and modulation schemes, the phase no

MaxLinear, Carlsbad, CA 1 2 Increased data-rates and multi-lane SerDes implementations impose stringent conditions for CDRs to produce low-jitter clocking that is capable of managing frequency and phase offsets. Conseque

processors, a high-frequency and multi-phase (MP) integrated voltage regulator (IVR) using multiple inductors would be an ideal solution to deliver optimized power with rapid dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) [1-5]. Neverthe

12V/24V-to-1V power converters with high efficiency and fast transient responses are highly desirable in industrial and automotive applications. Double step-down (DSD, also known as series-capacitor) converters are among

University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Automotive and industrial applications require a high-efficiency DC-DC converter to directly convert power from the 12V intermediate bus to a low-voltage point-of-load (PoL). Th

In the last decade, hybrid and resonant switched-capacitor (SC) converters have gone from a relatively unexplored concept to one that is gaining widespread adoption in a range of applications [1]. However, despite capabi

computing cores with a wide-range sub-volt rail, the energy-efficient high and wide voltageconversion-ratio (VCR) converters are crucially important. In addition, low form factor and decent transient responses are also f

High conversion-ratio (CR) DC-DC boost converters are essential for LED backlighting in smartphone and tablet displays. For realizing a high CR, a conventional boost (CB) converter [1] shown in Fig. 18.7.1 would use a la

University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 The profile of portable and wearable devices keeps shrinking, demanding high current density power management integrated circuits. Switched-capacitor (SC) converters and buck co

data-rates in wireless communications has driven the rapid development of silicon-based transceivers in the mm-wave and sub-THz bands. The broad available spectrum in D-band (110 to 170GHz) is attracting interest for sho

increase of the speed and data-rate achieved by 5G. A major challenge in 6G is to provide a large transmitter output power (Pout) with high energy efficiency and linearity from a limited supply voltage to overcome high p

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 1 2 The 28GHz band for fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave wireless communication supporting high-order QAM, OFDM, and carrier aggregation (CA) r

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 1 2 The continuous growth of data-rates has stimulated the rapid development of 5G New Radio (NR) in the mm-wave FR2 bands (above 24GHz). Consequently, to compensate for the mm-wave high p

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 1 2 Mm-wave 5G communication seeks to support multi-Gb/s data-rates over its large available spectrum, particularly in the K/Ka bands (24 to 40GHz). To ensure sufficient link budget under

transceiver systems, shown in Fig. 19.7.1, offer flexibility for multiband, multi-user, and joint communication-and-sensing platforms. However, wideband MIMO applications increase the number of desired or interfering sig

Srikrishnan Venkataraman4, Chris Pelto1, Tejas Shah5, Amreesh Rao2, Frank O’Mahony1, Eric Karl1, Lance Cheney2, Iqbal Rajwani2, Hemant Jain4, Ryan Cortez2, Arun Chandrasekhar4, Basavaraj Kanthi4, Raja Koduri6 Intel, Port

Sitaraman V. Iyer2, Zibing Yang1, Oscar Mendoza1, Mark Huddart1, Srikrishnan Venkataraman3, Sireesha Kandula1, Rafi Marom4, Alexandra M. Kern1, Bill Bowhill1, David R. Mulvihill5, Srikanth Nimmagadda3, Varma Kalidindi1,

Thomas Strach2, Di Phan1, Cedric Lichtenau2, Alper Buyuktosunoglu3, Hubert Harrer2, Jeffrey Zitz1, Chad Marquart1, Douglas Malone1, Tobias Webel2, Adam Jatkowski1, John Isakson4, Dina Hamid1, Mark Cichanowski4, Michael R

Andrew Bianchi3, Daniel Dreps3, David Wolpert4, Eric Lai3, Gerald Strevig3, Glen Wiedemeier3, Philipp Salz5, Ryan Kruse3 IBM, Bengaluru, India; 2IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY; 3IBM, Austin, TX IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY; 5IBM, Bo

Anand Rajagopalan1, Gordon Gammie1, Ramu Madhavaram1, Madhur Jagota1, CJ Chung1, Jenny Wiedemeier1, Bala Meera1, Chao-Yang Yeh2, Maverick Lin2, Curtis Lin2, Vincent Lin2, Jiun Lin2, YS Chen2, Barry Chen2, Cheng-Yuh Wu2,

amount of dark silicon area in power-limited SoCs makes it attractive to consider reconfigurable architectures that could intelligently repurpose dark silicon. FPGAs are more efficient than CPUs, but lack temporal dynami

Michael McCabe1, Timothy Johnson1, James Vinh1, Thomas Yiu1, Mark Wasio1, Hon-Hin Wong1, Daryl Lieu1, Jonathan White2, Benjamin Munger2, Joshua Lindner2, Javin Olson2, Steven Bakke2, Jeshuah Sniderman2, Carson Henrion3,

Bioimpedance (BioZ) analysis has been recognized as a new paradigm to derive a number of body composition and hemodynamic measures in a non-invasive manner. Measuring the changes in electrical resistance of the thorax du

There has been increasing demand for a low-power wearable device to perform longterm ambulatory monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG). However, for a wearable device to be a convenient continuous recording system in one’

Taeryoung Seol1, Homin Jang1, Doyoung Lee1, Minkyu Je2, Ji-Woong Choi1, Arup K. George1, Junghyup Lee1 Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, Korea KAIST, Daejeon, Korea 1 2 Insights derived from epi

Yashwanth Vyza1, Alix Trouillet1, Stéphanie P. Lacour1,3, Mahsa Shoaran1,3 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 3 Center for Neuroprosthetics, Geneva, Switzerland 1 2 Closed-loop neuromodulation can

University, Incheon, Korea, 4gBrain, Incheon, Korea *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 3 Miniaturized neural implants for monitoring neurological disorders have been investigated as a promising alternative to the neural

Ji-Hyoung Cha1, Jee-Ho Park1, Yongjae Park1, Hyogeun Shin2, Kyeong Seob Hwang2, Il-Joo Cho2, Seong-Jin Kim1 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seou

oxygenation (SpO2) is a measure of hypoxemia and a sign of problems relating to breathing and circulation. Progressive drop in arterial SpO2 can be an early indicator of severe disease in COVID-19 patients [1]. A hypoxic

separate I/Q channels. A bio-impedance input phase (φpst) varies depending on its electrode conditions such as configuration (2E or 4E) and environment (dry or wet). However, once the conditions are set and maintained, t

Mark Yeck1, Joseph A. Glick1, Raphael Robertazzi1, Ray Richetta2, John F. Bulzacchelli1, Daniel Ramirez2, Dereje Yilma2, Andrew Davies2, Rajiv V. Joshi1, Shawn D. Chambers2, Scott Lekuch1, Ken Inoue1, Devin Underwood1, D

Extensive research on quantum mechanics in past decades has successfully paved the way towards the disruptive technology of quantum computing. A further step to the realization of a fault-tolerant scalable quantum comput

Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 1 2 The interconnects between a quantum processor and control electronics can be made more compact and reliable by placing classical circuits at cryogenic te

*Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) Many envisioned IoT applications are not realizable today due to the mW-level power burden of wireless communication circuits for the most popular consumer standards: WiFi and BLE. To hel

University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 An ultra-low-power always-on voice activity detector (VAD) is the key enabler of acoustic sensing in wearables. The VAD listens to the environment and wakes up the main system o

interfaces on acoustic Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor nodes and mobile devices require integrated low-power always-on wake-up functions such as Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS) to ensure longer

Peiyu Chen1, Meng Wu1, Hao Zhang1, Peng Zhou3, Jinguang Liu3, Guangyu Sun1, Jiayoon Ru1, Le Ye1,2, Ru Huang1 Peking University, Beijing, China Advanced Institute of Information Technology of Peking University, Hangzhou,

communications, require deep-subpicosecond integrated phase jitter [1]. Their in-band phase noise (PN) can be adversely affected by flicker noise and a large feedback frequency-division ratio, N. Cascaded PLLs are a rece

*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Modern SoCs for advanced wireless/wired applications integrate an increasing number of PLLs. 5G TRXs require multiple PLLs to implement complex schemes of carrier aggregation and MIMO. Mu

Peng Chen3, Gerd Spalink2, Ben Eitel2, Ken Yamamoto4, Robert Bogdan Staszewski1,3, Morteza S. Alavi1, Masoud Babaie1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Sony Europe, Stuttgart, Germany 3 University Col

>25GHz inevitably faces the problems of a large closed-loop gain fvco/fref = N. Phase noise and spurs on the reference input and from other sources in the loop referred to its input are amplified by N. A narrow loop band

Luca Avallone2, Alessio Santiccioli1, Agata Iesurum3, Giovanni Steffan2, Dmytro Cherniak2, Luca Bertulessi1, Andrea Bevilacqua3, Carlo Samori1, Andrea Leonardo Lacaita1, Salvatore Levantino1 Politecnico di Milano, Milan,

Semiconductor Japan, Yokohama, Japan 1 2 Emerging IoT applications, such as asset tracking and first-responder rescue operation, require a new localization solution that achieves decimeter-level accuracy for long range (

Mario Konijnenburg1, Huib Visser1, Jac Romme1, Barundeb Dutta4, Morteza S. Alavi2, Christian Bachmann1, Yao-Hong Liu1 imec-Netherlands, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 3

Xiaofeng Guo, Jianlong Huang, Nansong Li, Xueqing Hu, Rongde Ou, Wenzhe Liu, Bei Chen, Wen Zhang, Xiaofeng Xin, Bingcai Zhao, ZhenQi Chen Newradio Technology, Shenzhen, China Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology differentiate