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Session 26
Medical & Bio
Virtual Rotating Gesture Recognizable Touch Readout IC for 1.26” Circular Touch Screen Panel
interaction systems in mobile devices. In addition to traditional capacitive touch systems, a stylus is becoming mainstream, which is a very useful feature for large-sized tablet PCs [1]. However, wearable devices, which
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Session 26
Medical & Bio
A 45.8dB-SNR 120fps 100pF-Load Self-Capacitance Touch-Screen Controller with Enhanced In-Band Common Noise Immunity Using Noise Antenna Reference
self-capacitance sensing has been mostly used for the following purposes: (1) to realize multi-touch on the matrix sensor, especially in full in-cell LCDs [1], and (2) to distinguish false touches at which water is dropp
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Session 27
Other
Some Recent Progress in Bioelectronics John Rogers
with features that adapt, resorb and reconstruct in a time-dynamic manner to sustain life processes. Bio-integrated electronic systems that capture certain of these essential attributes, in the form of closed-feedback ne
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Session 27
Other
The Tall Thin Molecular Programmer Erik Winfree
the transistor in 1947, with transistor counts roughly doubling every two years and now exceeding 100 billion on a single chip. One reason this was possible is that computers are an information technology, which permits
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Session 27
Other
The Promise of 2-D Materials for Scaled Digital and Analog Applications
Quentin Smets, Aryan Afzalian, Rutger Duflou, Xiangyu Wu, Gioele Mirabelli, Rongmei Chen, Inge Asselberghs, Gouri Sankar Kar imec, Leuven, Belgium Until the early 2000s, two-dimensional (2-D) materials were presumed to b
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A High-Performance 1Tb 3b/Cell 3D-NAND Flash with a 194MB/s Write Throughput on over 300 Layers
Kangwook Jo, Yujong Noh, Hyeoncheon Seol, Hyunsoo Lee, Jaehyeon Shin, Seongjin Choi, Youngdon Jung, Sungho Ahn, Yonghun Park, Sujeong Oh, Myungsu Kim, Seonguk Kim, Hyunwook Park, Taeho Lee, Haeun Won, Minsung Kim, Cheulh
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 4nm 16Gb/s/pin Single-Ended PAM4 Parallel Transceiver with Switching-Jitter Compensation and Transmitter Optimization
communication, deep learning, advanced driverassistance systems (ADAS), and extended reality (XR), have fueled demand for increased computing power and per-pin interface bandwidth. Recently, four-level pulse-amplitude mo
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 4nm 1.15TB/s HBM3 Interface with Resistor-Tuned Offset-Calibration and In-Situ Margin-Detection
Shinyoung Yi, Won Lee, Dongha Kim, Taekyung Yeo, Kyeongkeun Kang, Sangsoo Park, Eunsu Kim, Sukhyun Jung, Sanghune Park, Sungcheol Park, Mijung Noh, Hyogyuem Rhew, Jongshin Shin Samsung Electronics, Hwaseung, Korea A crit
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 32Gb/s/pin 0.51pJ/b Single-Ended Resistor-less Impedance-Matched Transmitter with a T-Coil-Based Edge-Boosting Equalizer in 40nm CMOS
demand, the DRAM interface bandwidth also increases steeply each year; for graphics applications, the bandwidth per pin has increased to 27Gb/s/pin, thanks to T-coils implemented using RDL layers [1]. As I/O hardware exp
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 1.1V 6.4Gb/s/pin 24-Gb DDR5 SDRAM with a Highly-Accurate Duty Corrector and NBTI-Tolerant DLL
Junsub Yoon, Jungmin Choi, Sanguk Lee, Hyunsub Norbert Rie, Jin-il Lee, Jongbum Lee, Taeseong Jang, JunHyung Kim, Sanghee Kang, Jungbum Shin, Yanggyoon Loh, Chang Yong Lee, Junmyung Woo, Hyeseung Yu, Changhyun Bae, Reum
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Session 28
RF & Wireless
A 1.1V 16Gb DDR5 DRAM with Probabilistic-Aggressor
Hammer Tracking, a Multi-Step Precharge, and Core-Bias Modulation for Security and Reliability Enhancement Woongrae Kim, Chulmoon Jung, Seongnyuh Yoo, Duckhwa Hong, Jeongjin Hwang, Jungmin Yoon, Ohyong Jung, Joonwoo Choi
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Session 29
AI / ML
A 32.5mW Mixed-Signal Processing-in-Memory-Based k-SAT Solver in 65nm CMOS with 74.0% Solvability for 30-Variable 126-Clause 3-SAT Problems
Boolean satisfiability (k-SAT, k ≥3) is an NP-complete combinatorial optimization problem (COP) with applications in communication, flight network, supply chain and finance, to name a few. The ASICs for SAT and other COP
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Session 29
AI / ML
Snap-SAT: A One-Shot Energy-Performance-Aware All-Digital Compute-in-Memory Solver for Large-Scale Hard Boolean Satisfiability Problems
Sirish Oruganti, Jaydeep P. Kulkarni University of Texas, Austin, TX Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a non-deterministic polynomial time (NP)-complete problem with many practical and industrial data-intensive application
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
An 8.09TOPS/W Neural Engine Leveraging Bit-Sparsified Sign-Magnitude Multiplications and Dual Adder Trees
(NNs) continues to increase, spurring the development of high-efficiency neural accelerator engines. Previous neural engines have relied on two’s-complement (2C) arithmetic for their central MAC units (Fig. 29.3.1 top, l
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Session 29
AI / ML
Wafer-Level Stacking of High-Density Capacitors to Enhance the Performance of a Large Multicore Processor for Machine Learning Applications
Graphcore, Bristol, United Kingdom Graphcore, Adelaide, Australia 1 2 The 822mm2 Colossus Mk2x is a chip made by stacking and fusing two separately processed 12-inch wafers prior to probe-test, singulation and packaging.
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
A 73.53TOPS/W 14.74TOPS Heterogeneous RRAM In-Memory and SRAM Near-Memory SoC for Hybrid Frame and Event-Based Target Tracking
Shota Konno1, Zishen Wan1, Ashwin Bhat1, Win-San Khwa2, Yu-Der Chih3, Meng-Fan Chang2, Arijit Raychowdhury1 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA TSMC Corporate Research, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3 TSMC Design Technology,
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
A 1.5µW End-to-End Keyword Spotting SoC with Content-Adaptive Frame Sub-Sampling and Fast-Settling Analog Frontend
a wake-up mechanism for edge IoT devices. While recent advances in deep learning have improved KWS accuracy [1], reducing system power consumption remains a challenge. A typical KWS signal chain consists of an analog fro
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
CCSA: A 394TOPS/W Mixed-Signal GPS Accelerator with Charge-Based Correlation Computing for Signal Acquisition
the amount of transferred charge as ∆Qc,k=Cc∙[∆Vnc,k+(1/2∙VDD–Vm)], which is indeed proportional to the Lk%Rk product. Jieyu Li1, Weifeng He1, Bo Zhang2, Liang Qi1, Guanghui He1, Mingoo Seok2 The charges that all mixed-s
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
A Sub-0.8pJ/b 16.3Gbps/mm2 Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND in 40nm CMOS
Kevin Galligan3, Muriel Medard2, Ken R. Duffy3, Rabia Tugce Yazicigil1 Boston University, Boston, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 3 Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland 1 2 Many modern communica
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Session 29
Digital Circuits
An 8T eNVSRAM Macro in 22nm FDSOI Standard Logic with Simultaneous Full-Array Data Restore for Secure IoT Devices
There has been an increasing demand for ultra-low power IoT devices in recent years. These devices often have low activity rates and most of the time are in standby mode, resulting in a high leakage energy consumption. T
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Session 3
Other
A Chopper-Stabilized Amplifier with a Relaxed Fill-In Technique and 22.6pA Input Current
now at Broadcom, Bunnik, The Netherlands 1 2 In chopper amplifiers, the interaction between the input signal and the chopper clock can cause intermodulation distortion (IMD). This is due to amplifier delay, which causes
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Session 3
Other
Bandpass Filter and Oscillator ICs with THD < -140dBc at 10Vppd for Testing High-Resolution ADCs
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India 1 2 The growing demand for high-resolution (18 to 20bit) precision ADCs has increased the need for very low THD (< -140dBc) testing hardware that can simultaneously c
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Session 3
Other
A 0.01mm2 10MHz RC Frequency Reference with a 1-Point On-Chip-Trimmed Inaccuracy of ±0.28% from -45°C to 125°C in 0.18µm CMOS
Silicon Integrated, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3Tsinghua University, Beijing, China *Equally-Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 2 CMOS frequency references based on RC oscillators are usually preferred over bulky crystals in IoT
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Session 3
Other
A 1.4µW/MHz 100MHz RC Oscillator with ±1030ppm Inaccuracy from -40°C to 85°C After Accelerated Aging for 500 Hours at 125°C
preferred clock source in many applications, which typically have used bulky crystal or MEMS oscillators. Using novel methods to compensate for the frequency inaccuracy caused by the temperature coefficient (TC) of the r
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Session 3
Other
A 12/13.56MHz Crystal Oscillator with Binary-Search-Assisted Two-Step Injection Achieving 5.0nJ Startup Energy and 45.8µs Startup Time
Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 Startup time (ts) and energy (ES) of crystal oscillators (XO) determine the efficiency of ultra-low-power duty-cycled IoT radios. MHz-range XOs take a
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Session 3
Other
A 16MHz XO with 17.5µs Startup Time Under 104ppm-∆F Injection Using Automatic Phase-Error Correction Technique
significantly influenced the power consumption of duty-cycled Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. The injection techniques [1-5] have gained popularity for effectively reducing the start-up time and start-up energy (ES) of
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Session 3
Other
A 0.954nW 32kHz Crystal Oscillator in 22nm CMOS with Gm-C-Based Current Injection Control
oscillators (XOs) [1-5] are essential in wirelessly linked IoT nodes: for time-keeping purposes, they need to consume low power since they stay always-on and remain accurate to reduce synchronization guard time [6]. In r
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Session 3
Other
A 0.5-to-400MHz Programmable BAW Oscillator with Fractional Output Divider Achieving 4ppm Frequency Stability over Temperature and <95fs Jitter
Peeyoosh Mirajkar1, Raghavendra Reddy1, Harish Ramesh1, Bichoy Bahr2, Jagdish Chand1, Uday Meda1, Baher Haroun2, Shankar Karantha1, Ernest Yen3, Keegan Martin2, Daniel Gan4, Amin Sijelmassi2, Sankaran Aniruddhan5 Texas I
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Session 30
Power Management
A Scalable N-Step Equal Split SSHI Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit Achieving 1170% Power Extraction Improvement and 22nA Quiescent Current with a 1µH-to-10µH Low Q Inductor
mechanical energy into AC electrical energy and can be a solution to various power issues related to the self-powered systems. The simplest way to harvest AC energy is to apply a full-bridge rectifier (FBR). However, the
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Session 30
Power Management
Single-Chip Qi-Compliant 40W Wireless-Power-Transmission Controller using RMS Coil Current Sensing and Adaptive ZVS for 4dB EMI and up to 1.7% Efficiency Improvements automotive application field, by auto-calibrating the initial threshold of the comparator
overall PTx efficiency is increased up to 1.7% depending on the PTxOUT. Filippo Neri1, Gus Mehas2, Fabio Di Fazio1, Giovanni Figliozzi1, Jure Menart1, Marcin Augustyniak1, Turev Acar2, Amit Bavisi2 Foreign object detecti
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Session 30
Power Management
A 93.2%-Efficiency Multi-Input Bipolar Energy Harvester with 17.9× MPPT Loss Reduction
Hsinchu, Taiwan 3 Realtek Semiconductor, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 Today’s multi-input energy harvesters need to accommodate different energies, such as sub-1μW from radio frequency (RF), tens of μW from thermal energy generat
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Session 30
Power Management
A Bias-Flip Rectifier with a Duty-Cycle-Based MPPT Algorithm for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with 98% Peak MPPT Efficiency and 738% Energy-Extraction Enhancement
Synchronized bias-flip rectifiers, such as synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) rectifiers, are widely used for piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) [1], which can replace the use of batteries in many IoT a
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Session 30
Power Management
A 3.7V-to-1kV Chip-Cascaded Switched-Capacitor Converter with Auxiliary Boost Achieving >96% Reactive Power Efficiency for Electrostatic Drive Applications
This work presents a high voltage drive system for electrostatic and piezoelectric (PZT) actuators used for small-scale electromechanical applications, e.g. microrobotics and haptics. Such systems are notoriously challen
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Session 30
Power Management
A 95.3% 5V-to-32V Wide Range 3-Level Current Mode Boost Converter with Fully State-based Phase Selection Achieving Simultaneous High-Speed VCF Balancing and Smooth Transition
for various applications that require a high supply voltage, including solid-state drives (SSDs), LED drivers, etc. A multi-level (ML) boost converter (BST) with a high conversion gain (CG) and low voltage rating for swi
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Session 30
Power Management
A 98.6%-Peak-Efficiency 1.47A/mm2-Current-Density Buck-Boost Converter with Always Reduced Conduction Loss
Hefei CLT Microelectronics, Hefei, China 1 2 Buck-Boost converters are commonly used in the Li-ion battery-powered mobile devices to convert a varying battery voltage (e.g., 2.7V to 4.2V) to a mid-3V output voltage (VOUT
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Session 30
Power Management
A Continuously Scalable-Conversion-Ratio SC Converter with Reconfigurable VCF Step for High Efficiency over an Extended VCR Range
Zhuhai UM Science & Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai, China 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 DC-DC converters are widely used in energy harvesting systems for maximum power poi
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Session 30
Power Management
3D Wireless Power Transfer with Noise Cancellation Technique for –62dB Noise Suppression and 90.1% Efficiency
Shao-Chang Huang1, Yi-Hsiang Kao1, Ke-Horng Chen1, Kuo-Lin Zheng1,2, Ying-Hsi Lin3, Shian-Ru Lin3, Tsung-Yen Tsai3 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Chip-GaN Power Semiconductor, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3
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Session 30
Power Management
A 90%-Efficiency 40.68MHz Single-Stage Dual-Output Regulating Rectifier with ZVS and Synchronous PFM Control for Wireless Powering
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a common non-intrusive approach to power implantable biomedical devices. In the WPT system, a tens-of-milliwatt power receiver (RX) should offer a small form factor and is preferred to pr
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Quadrature Uncertain-IF IR-UWB Transceiver with Twin-OOK Modulation
Benefiting from good energy efficiency and fine ranging accuracy, impulse-radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB) has been revived recently for short-distance communications. The IR-UWB transceiver, however, faces two major issues
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Fully Integrated IEEE 802.15.4/4z-Compliant 6.5-to-8GHz UWB System-on-Chip RF Transceiver Supporting Precision Positioning in a CMOS 28nm Process
Chanho Kim1, Wonkang Kim1, Wonjun Jung1, Youngsea Cho1, Seungyong Bae1, Jongpil Cho1, Hyeokju Na1, Byoungjoong Kang1, Honggul Han1, Hyeonuk Son1, Chiyoung Ahn1, Hoon Kang1, Sukjin Jung1, Hyukjun Sung1, Yeongdae Kim1, Don
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 128-Channel 2mm×2mm Battery-Free Neural Dielet Merging Simultaneous Multi-Channel Transmission Through Multi-Carrier Orthogonal Backscatter
wireless implants have been investigated as an alternative to traditional cable-based neural interfaces. Simultaneous massive-channel recording capability is essential to study cellular interconnections and network prope
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A Passive Bidirectional BLE Tag Demonstrating Battery-Free
Tag-to-Tablet/Smartphone, and Tag-to-Tag Modes Ziyi Chang*1, Qijing Xiao*1,2, Weixiao Wang1,2, Yuxuan Luo1, Bo Zhao1 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2Microaiot, Hangzhou, China *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) 1 Wi
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A ULP Long-Range Active-RF Tag with Automatic AntennaInterface Calibration Achieving 20.5% TX Efficiency at -22dBm
Zhizhan Yang1, Jun Yin1, Wei-Han Yu1, Haochen Zhang1, Pui-In Mak1, Rui P. Martins1,2 University of Macau, Macau, China Instituto Superior Tecnico/University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 For event-driven IoT applicatio
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 0.7-to-2.5GHz Sliding Digital-IF Quadrature Digital Transmitter Achieving >40% System Efficiency for Multi-Mode NB-IoT/BLE Applications
Cellular narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) is an important branch of low-power wide-area IoT applications, which specifies multiple operation bands over 663 to 915MHz (LB) and 1710 to 2010MHz (MB), up to 23dBm outpu
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Session 31
RF & Wireless
A 0.4-to-0.95GHz Distributed N-Path Noise-Cancelling Ultra-Low-Power RX with Integrated Passives Achieving
(ULP) radios requires ULP RX that can operate in crowded ISM environments across geographies while minimizing off-chip components for low cost and for satisfying wearable/IoT device footprints (Fig. 31.8.1). ULP RX based
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Session 32
Medical & Bio
A Behind-The-Ear Patch-Type Mental Healthcare Integrated Interface with 275-Fold Input Impedance Boosting and Adaptive Multimodal Compensation Capabilities
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea 4 SOSO H&C, Daegu, Korea 1 To overcome this limitation, a 10b DR-EPFL is proposed to have two CDAC loops of 6b coarse and 4b fine, where the fine CDAC is designed to provide equivalently
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Session 32
Medical & Bio
A Stimulus-Scattering-Free Pixel-Sharing Sub-Retinal Prosthesis SoC with 35.8dB Dynamic Range Time-Based Photodiode Sensing and Per-Pixel Dynamic Voltage Scaling
National University, Cheongju, Korea 4 Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea 1 2 Retinal prosthesis (RP) systems-on-chip (SoC) for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinal pigment degene
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Session 32
Medical & Bio
A 1V 136.6dB-DR 4kHz-BW ∆Σ Current-to-Digital Converter with a Truncation-Noise-Shaped Baseline-Servo-Loop in 0.18µm CMOS
Seungyeob Baik, Jaeha Kung, Ji-Woong Choi, Arup K. George, Junghyup Lee Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, Korea Precise current measurements underpin emerging applications such as photoplethysmo
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Session 32
Medical & Bio
A 1V-Supply 1.85VPP-Input-Range 1kHz-BW 181.9dB-FOMDR 179.4dB-FOMSNDR 2nd-Order Noise-Shaping SAR-ADC with Enhanced Input Impedance in 0.18μm CMOS
Gain Kim, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, Arup K. George, Junghyup Lee Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, Korea Wearable devices rely on accurately read bio-potentials such as ECG, EEG, EMG, and EOG (ExG) to tr
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Session 32
Medical & Bio
A 384-Channel Online-Spike-Sorting IC Using Unsupervised Geo-OSort Clustering and Achieving 0.0013mm2/Ch and 1.78µW/Ch
neural-recording devices get denser and generate more data [1], on-chip and online neural-signal processing becomes crucial to reduce the data-transmission power and enable real-time closed-loop applications with minimum