Table of Contents

• System challenges and hardware requirements for future consumer devices: From wearable to ChromeBooks and devices in-betweenEric Shiu, Simon Prakash. 1-5 [doi]
• Robotics for innovationHirohisa Hirukawa. 2 [doi]
• 2 SRAM cells, optimized for low power, high performance and high density SoC productsC.-H. Jan, F. Al-amoody, H. Y. Chang, T. Chang, Y.-W. Chen, N. Dias, W. Hafez, D. Ingerly, M. Jang, E. Karl, S. K.-Y. Shi, K. Komeyli, H. Kilambi, A. Kumar, K. Byon, C.-G. Lee, J. Lee, T. Leo, P.-C. Liu, N. Nidhi, R. Olac-vaw, C. Petersburg, K. Phoa, C. Prasad, C. Quincy, R. Ramaswamy, T. Rana, L. Rockford, A. Subramaniam, C. Tsai, P. Vandervoorn, L. Yang, A. Zainuddin, P. Bai. 12 [doi]
• Highly reliable TaOx ReRAM with centralized filament for 28-nm embedded applicationYukio Hayakawa, Atsushi Himeno, Ryutaro Yasuhara, W. Boullart, E. Vecchio, T. Vandeweyer, T. Witters, D. Crotti, M. Jurczak, S. Fujii, S. Ito, Y. Kawashima, Yuuichirou Ikeda, Akifumi Kawahara, Ken Kawai, Zhiqiang Wei, Shunsaku Muraoka, Kazuhiko Shimakawa, Takumi Mikawa, Shinichi Yoneda. 14 [doi]
• High-mobility high-Ge-content Si1-xGex-OI PMOS FinFETs with fins formed using 3D germanium condensation with Ge fraction up to x∼ 0.7, scaled EOT∼8.5Å and ∼10nm fin widthP. Hashemi, T. Ando, K. Balakrishnan, J. Bruley, S. Engelmann, J. A. Ott, V. Narayanan, D.-G. Park, R. T. Mo, E. Leobandung. 16 [doi]
• Design and demonstration of reliability-aware Ge gate stacks with 0.5 nm EOTC. Lu, C.-H. Lee, T. Nishimura, A. Toriumi. 18 [doi]
• Technology/circuits joint evening panel discussion semiconductor industry in 2020: Evolution or revolution?N. Sugii, G. Jurczak, M. Yamaoka, A. Molnar, J. Tham, T. Piliszczuk, O. Nalamasu, J. Hausner, S. Tanaka, T. Yamauchi, S. Sivaram, C. Diaz, W. Dai. 22 [doi]
• Profiting from IoT: The key is very-large-scale happiness integrationKazuo Yano, Tomoaki Akitomi, Koji Ara, Jun-ichiro Watanabe, Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Miki Hayakawa, Norihiko Moriwaki. 24 [doi]
• Automated driving - Impacts on the vehicle architectureMichael Fausten, Thorsten Huck, Armin Ruhle, Tuelin Baysal, Robert Kornhaas. 28 [doi]
• Breakthrough technologies and reference designs for new IoT applicationsPhilippe Magarshack. 42 [doi]
• A 0.5-degree error 10mW CMOS image sensor-based gaze estimation processor with logarithmic processingKyeongryeol Bong, Injoon Hong, Gyeonghoon Kim, Hoi-Jun Yoo. 46 [doi]
• A 23mW face recognition accelerator in 40nm CMOS with mostly-read 5T memoryDongsuk Jeon, Qing Dong, Yejoong Kim, Xiaolong Wang, Shuai Chen, Hao Yu, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. 48 [doi]
• A 640M pixel/s 3.65mW sparse event-driven neuromorphic object recognition processor with on-chip learningJung Kuk Kim, Phil Knag, Thomas Chen, Zhengya Zhang. 50 [doi]
• A 33 nJ/vector descriptor generation processor for low-power object recognitionDongjoo Shin, Injoon Hong, Gyeonghoon Kim, Hoi-Jun Yoo. 52 [doi]
• Single-chip 4K 60fps 4: 2: 2 HEVC video encoder LSI with 8K scalabilityTakayuki Onishi, Takashi Sano, Yukikuni Nishida, Kazuya Yokohari, Jia Su, Ken Nakamura, Koyo Nitta, Kimiko Kawashima, Jun Okamoto, Naoki Ono, Ritsu Kusaba, Atsushi Sagata, Hiroe Iwasaki, Mitsuo Ikeda, Atsushi Shimizu. 54 [doi]
• A sharp programmable passive filter based on filtering by AliasingNeha Sinha, Mansour Rachid, Sudhakar Pamarti. 58 [doi]
• A 120nW 8b sub-ranging SAR ADC with signal-dependent charge recycling for biomedical applicationsSeokhyeon Jeong, Wanyeong Jung, Dongsuk Jeon, Omer Berenfeld, Hakan Oral, Grant Kruger, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. 60 [doi]
• A 12b 70MS/s SAR ADC with digital startup calibration in 14nm CMOSChun C. Lee, Cho-Ying Lu, Ramya Narayanaswamy, Jad B. Rizk. 62 [doi]
• A 9.35-ENOB, 14.8 fJ/conv.-step fully-passive noise-shaping SAR ADCZhijie Chen, Masaya Miyahara, Akira Matsuzawa. 64 [doi]
• A 12-bit 200-MS/s 3.4-mW CMOS ADC with 0.85-V supplyJoseph Palackal Mathew, Long Kong, Behzad Razavi. 66 [doi]
• RRAM-based 7T1R nonvolatile SRAM with 2x reduction in store energy and 94x reduction in restore energy for frequent-off instant-on applicationsAlbert Lee, Meng-Fan Chang, Chien-Chen Lin, Chien-Fu Chen, Mon-Shu Ho, Chia-Chen Kuo, Pei-Ling Tseng, Shyh-Shyuan Sheu, Tzu-Kun Ku. 76 [doi]
• Automotive low power technology for IoT societyTadaaki Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kondo, Koji Nii. 80 [doi]
• IoT: The Impact of ThingsJo De Boeck. 82 [doi]
• Image sensor/digital logic 3D stacked module featuring inductive coupling channels for high speed/low-noise image transferMasayuki Ikebe, Daisuke Uchida, Yasuhiro Take, Makito Someya, Satoshi Chikuda, Kento Matsuyama, Tetsuya Asai, Tadahiro Kuroda, Masato Motomura. 82 [doi]
• -rms temporal-readout-noise 3D-stacked CMOS image sensor with conditional correlated multiple sampling (CCMS) techniqueShang-Fu Yeh, Kuo-Yu Chou, Honyih Tu, Calvin Yi-Ping Chao, Fu-Lung Hsueh. 84 [doi]
• Transistor-interconnect mobile system-on-chip co-design method for holistic battery energy minimizationN. N. Mojumder, S. C. Song, K. Rim, J. Xu, J. Wang, J. Zhu, M. Vratonjic, K. Lin, Martin Saint-Laurent, Paul Bassett, Geoffrey Yeap. 84 [doi]
• A 0.4V self-powered CMOS imager with 140dB dynamic range and energy harvestingAlbert Yen-Chih Chiou, Chih-Cheng Hsieh. 86 [doi]
• Sub-μW standby power, <18 μW/DMIPS@25MHz MCU with embedded atom-switch programmable logic and ROMYukihide Tsuji, Xu Bai, Makoto Miyamura, Toshitsugu Sakamoto, Munehiro Tada, Naoki Banno, Koichiro Okamoto, Noriyuki Iguchi, Nobuyuki Sugii, Hiromitsu Hada. 86 [doi]
• - full well capacityShunichi Wakashima, Fumiaki Kusuhara, Rihito Kuroda, Shigetoshi Sugawa. 88 [doi]
• A 3D stacked CMOS image sensor with 16Mpixel global-shutter mode and 2Mpixel 10000fps mode using 4 million interconnectionsToru Kondo, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Kenji Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Tsukimura, Naohiro Takazawa, Hideki Kato, Shunsuke Suzuki, Jun Aoki, Haruhisa Saito, Yuichi Gomi, Seisuke Matsuda, Yoshitaka Tadaki. 90 [doi]
• A 3.5mW 315/400MHz IEEE802.15.6/proprietary mode digitally-tunable radio SoC with integrated digital baseband and MAC processor in 40nm CMOSChristian Bachmann, Maja Vidojkovic, Xiongchuan Huang, Maarten Lont, Yao-Hong Liu, Ming Ding, Benjamin Busze, Jordy Gloudemans, Hans Giesen, Adnane Sbai, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Nauman F. Kiyani, Kouichi Kanda, Kazuaki Oishi, Shoichi Masui, Kathleen Philips, Harmke de Groot. 94 [doi]
• A 1Gb/s energy efficient triple-channel UWB-based cognitive radioNam-Seog Kim, Jan M. Rabaey. 96 [doi]
• A 0.6V all-digital body-coupled wakeup transceiver for IoT applicationsPaul N. Whatmough, George Smart, Shidhartha Das, Yiannis Andreopoulos, David M. Bull. 98 [doi]
• A self-powered IPv6 bidirectional wireless sensor & actuator network for indoor conditionsPascal Urard, G. Romagnello, Andrei Banciu, J. C. Grasset, V. Heinrich, Mounir Boulemnakher, F. Todeschni, Laurent Damon, Roberto Guizzetti, L. Andre, A. Cathelin. 100 [doi]
• A 794Mbps 135mW iterative detection and decoding receiver for 4×4 LDPC-coded MIMO systems in 40nmWei-Hsuan Wu, Wei-cheng Sun, Chia-Hsiang Yang, Yeong-Luh Ueng. 102 [doi]
• The progresses of MRAM as a memory to save energy consumption and its potential for further reductionHiroaki Yoda, E. Kitagawa, Naoharu Shimomura, S. Fujita, Minoru Amano. 104 [doi]
• Challenges for high-density 16Gb ReRAM with 27nm technologyScott Sills, Shuichiro Yasuda, Alessandro Calderoni, Christopher Cardon, Jonathan Strand, Katsuhisa Aratani, Nirmal Ramaswamy. 106 [doi]
• A 16-channel wireless neural interfacing SoC with RF-powered energy-replenishing adiabatic stimulationSohmyung Ha, Abraham Akinin, Jongkil Park, Chul Kim, Hui Wang, Christoph Maier, Gert Cauwenberghs, Patrick P. Mercier. 106 [doi]
• Enabling closed-loop neural interface: A bi-directional interface circuit with stimulation artifact cancellation and cross-channel CM noise suppressionAdam E. Mendrela, Jihyun Cho, Jeffrey A. Fredenburg, Cynthia A. Chestek, Michael P. Flynn, Euisik Yoon. 108 [doi]
• Low-power embedded ReRAM technology for IoT applicationsM. Ueki, K. T. Akeuchi, T. Yamamoto, A. Tanabe, N. Ikarashi, M. Saitoh, T. Nagumo, H. Sunamura, M. Narihiro, K. Uejima, K. Masuzaki, N. Furutake, S. Saito, Y. Yabe, A. Mitsuiki, K. Takeda, T. Hase, Y. Hayashi. 108 [doi]
• Neurochemical thermostat: A neural interface SoC with integrated chemometrics for closed-loop regulation of brain dopamineBardia Bozorgzadeh, Douglas R. Schuweiler, Martin Bobák, Paul A. Garris, Pedram Mohseni. 110 [doi]
• 2 energy-area productSung Yun Park, Jihyun Cho, Kyounghwan Na, Euisik Yoon. 112 [doi]
• Reliability enhancement of 1Xnm TLC for cold flash and millennium memoriesSenju Yamazaki, Shuhei Tanakamaru, Sakuya Suzuki, Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki, Shogo Hachiya, Ken Takeuchi. 112 [doi]
• A 19.6-Gbps CMOS optical receiver with local feedback IIR DFEAlireza Sharif Bakhtiar, Anthony Chan Carusone. 116 [doi]
• 56Gb/s PAM4 and NRZ SerDes transceivers in 40nm CMOSJri Lee, Ping-Chuan Chiang, Chih-Chi Weng. 118 [doi]
• A 25-Gb/s, -10.8-dBm input sensitivity, PD-bandwidth tolerant CMOS optical receiverShih Hao Huang, Wei-Zen Chen. 120 [doi]
• A 45nm SOI monolithic photonics chip-to-chip link with bit-statistics-based resonant microring thermal tuningChen Sun, Mark Wade, Michael Georgas, Sen Lin, Luca Alloatti, Benjamin Moss, Rajesh Kumar, Amir Atabaki, Fabio Pavanello, Rajeev J. Ram, Milos Popovic, Vladimir Stojanovic. 122 [doi]
• FPGA-accelerated complex event processingTakashi Takenaka, Hiroaki Inoue, Takeo Hosomi, Yuichi Nakamura. 126 [doi]
• Inductively-powered wireless solid-state drive (SSD) system with merged error correction of high-speed non-contact data links and NAND flash memoryAtsutake Kosuge, Junki Hashiba, Toru Kawajiri, So Hasegawa, Tsunaaki Shidei, Hiroki Ishikuro, Tadahiro Kuroda, Ken Takeuchi. 128 [doi]
• Privacy-protection solid-state storage (PP-SSS) system: Automatic lifetime management of internet-data's right to be forgottenShuhei Tanakamaru, Hiroki Yamazawa, Ken Takeuchi. 130 [doi]
• Caching mechanisms towards single-level storage systems for Internet of ThingsYosuke Bando, Konosuke Watanabe, Ken-ichi Maeda, Hiroki Kudo, Masahiro Ishiyama, Atsushi Kunimatsu, Hiroto Nakai, Masafumi Takahashi, Yukihito Oowaki. 132 [doi]
• An all-digital bang-bang PLL using two-point modulation and background gain calibration for spread spectrum clock generationSungchun Jang, SungWoo Kim, Sang-Hyeok Chu, Gyu-Seob Jeong, Yoonsoo Kim, Deog Kyoon Jeong. 136 [doi]
• A digital bang-bang phase-locked loop with automatic loop gain control and loop latency reductionTing-Kuei Kuan, Shen-Iuan Liu. 138 [doi]
• A 0.4-1.6GHz spur-free bang-bang digital PLL in 65nm with a D-flip-flop based frequency subtractor circuitBongjin Kim, Somnath Kundu, Chris H. Kim. 140 [doi]
• A 450-fs jitter PVT-robust fractional-resolution injection-locked clock multiplier using a DLL-based calibrator with replica-delay-cellsMina Kim, Seojin Choi, Jaehyouk Choi. 142 [doi]
• Embedded image recognition systems for advanced safety vehiclesMasayuki Takemura, Takeshi Shima, Shoji Muramatsu. 146 [doi]
• High-level video analytics PC subsystem using SoC with heterogeneous multi-core architectureYukihiro Sasagawa, Atsuhiro Mori. 148 [doi]
• A throughput-agnostic 11.9-13.6GOPS/mW multi-signal classification SoC for cognitive radios in 40nm CMOSFang-Li Yuan, Rakesh Kumar Palani, Sina Basir-Kazeruni, Hundo Shin, Anindya Saha, Ramesh Harjani, Dejan Markovic. 150 [doi]
• A multi-chip system optimized for insect-scale flapping-wing robotsXuan Zhang, Mario Lok, Tao Tong, Simon Chaput, Sae Kyu Lee, Brandon Reagen, Hyunkwang Lee, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei. 152 [doi]
• Sensor-hub sweet-spot analysis for ultra-low-power always-on operationAdam Fuks. 154 [doi]
• A 25GS/s 6b TI binary search ADC with soft-decision selection in 65nm CMOSShengchang Cai, Ehsan Zhian Tabasy, Ayman Shafik, Shiva Kiran, Sebastian Hoyos, Samuel Palermo. 158 [doi]
• 2 error-shaping alias-free asynchronous ADCSharvil Patil, Alin Ratiu, Dominique Morche, Yannis P. Tsividis. 160 [doi]
• A 6b 46GS/s ADC with >23GHz BW and sparkle-code error correctionYida Duan, Elad Alon. 162 [doi]
• A 14b 750MS/s DAC in 20nm CMOS with <-168dBm/Hz noise floor beyond Nyquist and 79dBc SFDR utilizing a low glitch-noise hybrid R-2R architectureSang Min Lee, Dongwon Seo, Shahin Mehdizad Taleie, Derui Kong, Michael Joseph McGowan, Tongyu Song, Ganesh R. Saripalli, Jenny Kuo, Seyfi S. Bazarjani. 164 [doi]
• A 16-bit 10Gsps current steering RF DAC in 65nm CMOS achieving 65dBc ACLR multi-carrier performance at 4.5GHz FoutGil Engel, Martin Clara, Haiyang Zhu, Paul Wilkins. 166 [doi]
• Technology innovation in an IoT EraAn Steegen. 170 [doi]
• Fabrication of a 3000-6-input-LUTs embedded and block-level power-gated nonvolatile FPGA chip using p-MTJ-based logic-in-memory structureDaisuke Suzuki, Masanori Natsui, Akira Mochizuki, Sadahiko Miura, Hiroaki Honjo, Hideo Sato, Shunsuke Fukami, Shoji Ikeda, Tetsuo Endoh, Hideo Ohno, Takahiro Hanyu. 172 [doi]
• Low-voltage metal-fuse technology featuring a 1.6V-programmable 1T1R bit cell with an integrated 1V charge pump in 22nm tri-gate processS. H. Kulkarni, Z. Chen, B. Srinivasan, B. Pedersen, U. Bhattacharya, K. Zhang. 174 [doi]
• A 4×9 Gb/s 1 pJ/b NRZ/multi-tone serial-data transceiver with crosstalk reduction architecture for multi-drop memory interfaces in 40nm CMOSKiarash Gharibdoust, Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici. 180 [doi]
• A 6.4Gb/s/pin at sub-1V supply voltage TX-interleaving technique for mobile DRAM interfaceChang-Kyo Lee, Min-Su Ahn, Daesik Moon, Kiho Kim, Yoon-Joo Eom, Won Young Lee, Jongmin Kim, Sanghyuk Yoon, Baekkyu Choi, Seokhong Kwon, Joon Young Park, Seung-Jun Bae, Yong-Cheol Bae, Jung Hwan Choi, Seong-Jin Jang, Gyo-Young Jin. 182 [doi]
• A 4.35Gb/s/pin LPDDR4 I/O interface with multi-VOH level, equalization scheme, and duty-training circuit for mobile applicationsHae Kang Jung, Jaemo Yang, Jeonghun Lee, Hyeongjun Ko, Hyuk Lee, Taeksang Song, Jongjoo Shim, Sangkwon Lee, Keunsoo Song, Dongkyun Kim, Hyungsoo Kim, Yunsaing Kim. 184 [doi]
• A computer designed half Gb 16-channel 819Gb/s high-bandwidth and 10ns low-latency DRAM for 3D stacked memory devices using TSVsPei-Wen Luo, Chi-Kang Chen, Yu-Hui Sung, Wei Wu, Hsiu-Chuan Shih, Chia-Hsin Lee, Kuo-Hua Lee, Ming-Wei Li, Mei-Chiang Lung, Chun-Nan Lu, Yung-Fa Chou, Po-Lin Shih, Chung-Hu Ke, Chun Shiah, Patrick Stolt, Shigeki Tomishima, Ding-Ming Kwai, Bor-Doou Rong, Nicky Lu, Shih-Lien Lu, Cheng-Wen Wu. 186 [doi]
• An 82%-efficient multiphase voltage-regulator 3D interposer with on-chip magnetic inductorsKevin Tien, Noah Sturcken, Naigang Wang, Jae-woong Nah, Bing Dang, Eugene J. O'Sullivan, Paul S. Andry, Michele Petracca, Luca P. Carloni, William J. Gallagher, Kenneth L. Shepard. 192 [doi]
• 15 dB Conversion gain, 20 MHz carrier frequency AM receiver in flexible a-IGZO TFT technology with textile antennasK. Ishida, Reza Shabanpour, Tilo Meister, B. Kherdmand Boroujeni, Corrado Carta, Luisa Petti, Niko Munzenrieder, Giovanni A. Salvatore, Gerhard Tröster, Frank Ellinger. 194 [doi]
• Reconstruction of multiple-user voice commands using a hybrid system based on thin-film electronics and CMOSLiechao Huang, Josue Sanz-Robinson, Tiffany Moy, Yingzhe Hu, Warren Rieutort-Louis, Sigurd Wagner, James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma. 196 [doi]
• Holistic technology optimization and key enablers for 7nm mobile SoCS. C. Song, J. Xu, N. N. Mojumder, K. Rim, D. Yang, J. Bao, J. Zhu, J. Wang, M. Badaroglu, V. Machkaoutsan, P. Narayanasetti, B. Bucki, J. Fischer, Geoffrey Yeap. 198 [doi]
• A self-referenced VCO-based temperature sensor with 0.034°C/mV supply sensitivity in 65nm CMOSTejasvi Anand, Kofi A. A. Makinwa, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu. 200 [doi]
• 3 fully-integrated, wireless sensor node with 8GHz UWB transmitterHyeongseok Kim, Gyouho Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Zhiyoong Foo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, David D. Wentzloff. 202 [doi]
• A 4.84mW 30fps dual frequency division multiplexing electrical impedance tomography SoC for lung ventilation monitoring systemYongsu Lee, Kiseok Song, Hoi-Jun Yoo. 204 [doi]
• A fully integrated CMOS fluorescence biosensor with on-chip nanophotonic filterLingyu Hong, Simon McManus, Haw Yang, Kaushik Sengupta. 206 [doi]
• An efficient and resilient ultra-high speed galvanic data isolator leveraging broad-band multi resonant tank electro-magnetic couplingSwaminathan Sankaran, Bradley Kramer, Gregory Howard, Benjamin Sutton, Randall Walberg, Vijaylaxmi Khanolkar, Robert Payne, Mark Morgan. 210 [doi]
• A 100-GbE reverse gearbox IC in 40nm CMOS for supporting legacy 10- and 40-GbE standardsTaehun Yoon, Joon-Yeong Lee, Kwangseok Han, Jeong-Sup Lee, Sangeun Lee, Taeho Kim, Hyosup Won, Jinho Park, Hyeon-Min Bae. 212 [doi]
• A 2.7mW/Channel 48-to-1000MHz Direct Sampling Full-Band Cable ReceiverJiangfeng Wu, Giuseppe Cusmai, Acer Wei-Te Chou, Tao Wang, Bo Shen, Vijayaramalingam Periasamy, Ming-Hung Hsieh, Chun-Ying Chen, Lin He, Loke Tan, Aravind Padyana, Cheng-Hsun Yang, Gregory Unruh, Jackie Koon Lun Wong, Juo-Jung Hung, Massimo Brandolini, Sha-Ting Lin, Xi Chen, Yen Ding, Yen-Jen Ko, Young Shin, Ada Hung, Binning Chen, Cynthia Dang, Deepak Lakshminarasimhan, Iris Hong Liu, Jerry Lin, Kowen Lai, Larry Wassermann, Ayaskant Shrivastava, Chi-Ming Hsiao, Chun-Sheng Huang, Jianlong Chen, Lakshminarasimhan Krishnan, Ning-Yi Wang, Pin-en Su, Tianwei Li, Wei-Ta Shih, Yau-Cheng Yang, Peter Cangiane, Randall Perlow, William Ngai, Hung Sen Huang, James Y. C. Chang, Xicheng Jiang, Ardie Venes, Ramon Gomez. 214 [doi]
• A fully integrated IEEE 802.15.7 visible light communication transmitter with on-chip 8-W 85% efficiency boost LED driverBabar Hussain, Fengyu Che, Feng Zhang, Tak-Sang Yim, Lin Cheng, Wing-Hung Ki, C. Patrick Yue, Liang Wu. 216 [doi]
• Circuits evening panel discussion 1: Is university circuit design research and education keeping up with industry needs?P. Yue, B. Sheu, A. Matsuzawa, K. Asada, L. Loh, K. Makinwa, S. Borkar, V. Stojanovic. 220 [doi]
• Active-lite interposer for 2.5 & 3D integrationGeert Hellings, Mirko Scholz, Mikael Detalle, Dimitrios Velenis, Muriel de Potter de ten Broeck, C. Roda Neve, Y. Li, S. Van Huylenbroek, S. H. Chen, Erik Jan Marinissen, Antonio La Manna, Geert Van der Plas, Dimitri Linten, Eric Beyne, Aaron Thean. 222 [doi]
• Circuits evening panel discussion 2: Wearable electronics: Still an oasis or just a mirage for the semiconductor industry?Y.-S. Shu, N. Verma, N. Verma, K. Yano, T. Someya, H.-J. Yoo, K. Vasanth, D. Blaauw, L. Krishnamurthy, S.-J. Kim. 222 [doi]
• A 32 Gb/s 0.55 mW/Gbps PAM4 1-FIR 2-IIR tap DFE receiver in 65-nm CMOSOsama Elhadidy, Ashkan Roshan-Zamir, Hae-Woong Yang, Samuel Palermo. 224 [doi]
• A 40-Gb/s 9.2-mW CMOS equalizerAbishek Manian, Behzad Razavi. 226 [doi]
• A 5.9mW/Gb/s 7Gb/s/pin 8-lane single-ended RX with crosstalk cancellation scheme using a XCTLE and 56-tap XDFE in 32nm SOI CMOSAlessandro Cevrero, Cosimo Aprile, Pier Andrea Francese, U. Bapst, Christian Menolfi, Matthias Braendli, Marcel A. Kossel, Thomas Morf, Lukas Kull, Hazar Yueksel, Ilter Oezkaya, Yusuf Leblebici, Volkan Cevher, Thomas Toifl. 228 [doi]
• A 60Gb/s 173mW receiver frontend in 65nm CMOS technologyJaeduk Han, Yue Lu, Nicholas Sutardja, KwangMo Jung, Elad Alon. 230 [doi]
• A dithering-less 54.79-to-63.16GHz DCO with 4-Hz frequency resolution using an exponentially-scaling C-2C switched-capacitor ladderZhiqiang Huang, Howard Cam Luong. 234 [doi]
• A -194 dBc/Hz FOM interactive current-reused QVCO (ICR-QVCO) with capacitor-coupling self-switching sinusoidal current biasing (CSSCB) phase noise reduction techniqueKuan-I. Wu, I.-Shing Shen, Christina F. Jou, Charlie Chung-Ping Chen. 236 [doi]
• A 99nW 70.4kHz resistive frequency locking on-chip oscillator with 27.4ppm/ºC temperature stabilityMyungjoon Choi, Suyoung Bang, Tae-Kwang Jang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. 238 [doi]
• 4.2 pW timer for heavily duty-cycled systemsPhillip M. Nadeau, Arun Paidimarri, Anantha P. Chandrakasan. 240 [doi]
• A low-PDP and low-area repeater using passive CTLE for on-chip interconnectsMing-Shuan Chen, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Chih-Kong Ken Yang. 244 [doi]
• 1.32GHz high-throughput charge-recovery AES core with resistance to DPA attacksShengshuo Lu, Zhengya Zhang, Marios C. Papaefthymiou. 246 [doi]
• A robust -40 to 120°C all-digital true random number generator in 40nm CMOSKaiyuan Yang, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester. 248 [doi]
• 2/bitcell physically unclonable function with 3.5% and 1% bit-instability across 0 to 80°C and 0.6 to 1.2V in a 65nm CMOSJiangyi Li, Mingoo Seok. 250 [doi]
• A 75 MHz BW 68dB DR CT-ΣΔ modulator with single amplifier biquad filter and a broadband low-power common-gate summing techniqueCarlos Briseno-Vidrios, Alexander Edward, Ayman Shafik, Samuel Palermo, José Silva-Martínez. 254 [doi]
• A 54mW 1.2GS/s 71.5dB SNDR 50MHz BW VCO-based CT ΔΣ ADC using dual phase/frequency feedback in 65nm CMOSKarthikeyan Reddy, Siladitya Dey, Sachin Rao, Brian Young, Praveen Prabha, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu. 256 [doi]
• A 7.2 mW 75.3 dB SNDR 10 MHz BW CT delta-sigma modulator using Gm-C-based noise-shaped quantizer and digital integratorTaewook Kim, Changsok Han, Nima Maghari. 258 [doi]
• A 16nm FinFet 19/39MHz 78/72dB DR noise-injected aggregated CTSDM ADC for configurable LTE advanced CCA/NCCA ApplicationTsung-Kai Kao, Ping Chen, Jui-Yuan Tsai, Pao-Cheng Chiu. 260 [doi]
• A 10/20/30/40 MHz feed-forward FIR DAC continuous-time ΔΣ ADC with robust blocker performance for radio receiversSebastian Loeda, Jeffrey Harrison, Franck Pourchet, Andrew Adams. 262 [doi]
• 2 high density and aging resilient 8T SRAM with 14nm FinFET technology featuring 560mV VMIN with read and write assistKyung-Hoae Koo, Liqiong Wei, John Keane, Uddalak Bhattacharya, Eric A. Karl, Kevin Zhang. 266 [doi]
• 14nm FinFET based supply voltage boosting techniques for extreme low Vmin operationRajiv V. Joshi, Matthew M. Ziegler, H. Wetter, C. Wandel, Herschel A. Ainspan. 268 [doi]
• A reconfigurable sense amplifier with 3X offset reduction in 28nm FDSOI CMOSMahmood Khayatzadeh, Fabio Frustaci, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Massimo Alioto. 270 [doi]
• A configurable TCAM/BCAM/SRAM using 28nm push-rule 6T bit cellSupreet Jeloka, Naveen Akesh, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. 272 [doi]
• 2 ternary-CAM macro with 484 ps search access time in 16 nm Fin-FET bulk CMOS technologyYasumasa Tsukamoto, Masao Morimoto, Makoto Yabuuchi, Miki Tanaka, Koji Nii. 274 [doi]
• 2 autonomous thermoelectric energy-harvester for biomedical sensorsDejan Rozgic, Dejan Markovic. 278 [doi]
• Solar energy harvesting system with integrated battery management and startup using single inductor and 3.2nW quiescent powerDina El-Damak, Anantha P. Chandrakasan. 280 [doi]
• A 2.5-V, 160-μJ-output piezoelectric energy harvester and power management IC for batteryless wireless switch (BWS) applicationsJoonseok Yang, Minbok Lee, Myeong-Jae Park, Sung-Youb Jung, Jaeha Kim. 282 [doi]
• A 144MHz integrated resonant regulating rectifier with hybrid pulse modulationChul Kim, Sohmyung Ha, Jiwoong Park, Abraham Akinin, Patrick P. Mercier, Gert Cauwenberghs. 284 [doi]
• A 5.5W AC input converter-free LED driver with 82% low-frequency-flicker reduction, 88.2% efficiency and 0.92 power factorYuan Gao, Lisong Li, Philip K. T. Mok. 286 [doi]
• A 0.7 V 256 μW ΔΣ modulator with passive RC integrators achieving 76 dB DR in 2 MHz BWJoão L. A. de Melo, João Goes, Nuno F. Paulino. 290 [doi]
• A 13-ENOB, 5 MHz BW, 3.16 mW multi-bit continuous-time ΔΣ ADC in 28 nm CMOS with excess-loop-delay compensation embedded in SAR quantizerGuowen Wei, Pradeep Shettigar, Feng Su, Xinyu Yu, Tom Kwan. 292 [doi]
• A low-power Gm-C-based CT-ΔΣ audio-band ADC in 1.1V 65nm CMOSImran Ahmed, James A. Cherry, Ayaz Hasan, Akram Nafee, David Halupka, Younis Allasasmeh, W. Martin Snelgrove. 294 [doi]
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