Artificial intelligence is redefining the computing landscape. Chiplets and heterogeneous integration have become the key strategies for current and next-generation processors. In the wake of Moore’s law slowing down, system integration through...
In recent years, the development of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) is driving the need for more reliable and precise on-vehicle sensing. Radar and lidar are crucial in this framework, since they allow sensing of vehicle’s surroundin...
High-dynamic-range (HDR) technology enhances the capture of luminance beyond the limits of traditional images, facilitating the capture of more nuanced and lifelike visual effects. This advancement has profound implications across various sectors, su...
This article summarizes the current development status of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology and its application prospects in multiple industries. Nanoimprint lithography technology has significant advantages, such as low cost, high resolution,...
A general overview of Noise-Shaping Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters is provided, encompassing the fundamentals, operational principles, and key architectures of Noise-Shaping SAR (NS SAR). Key challenges, includin...
Silicon radiation detectors, a special type of microelectronic sensor which plays a crucial role in many applications, are reviewed in this paper, focusing on fabrication aspects. After addressing the basic concepts and the main requirements, the evo...
Content-addressable memory (CAM) has been part of the memory market for more than five decades. CAM can carry out a single clock cycle lookup based on the content rather than an address. Thanks to this attractive feature, CAM is utilized in memory sy...
Silicon carbide is changing power electronics; it is enabling massive car electrification owing to its far more efficient operation with respect to mainstream silicon in a large variety of energy conversion systems like the main traction inverter of...
Drawing inspiration from biological brains’ energy-efficient information-processing mechanisms, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have facilitated the development of ultrafast artificial neural networks. This in turn is envisaged to offer pot...
Radiation effects on electronic devices represent a major concern in applications for harsh environments, such as aerospace and nuclear facilities. This article presents a review of fundamental aspects of radiation effects on semiconductors, with a p...
This paper reviews the state of the art on bandpass
Oxygen vacancy engineering in metal oxides is a propitious route to modulate their resistive switching properties for memory and neuromorphic applications. This review provides an account of the research works on tailoring RS behavior in oxide thin-f...
For Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Depthwise Separable CNN (DSCNN) is the preferred architecture for Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementation on edge devices. It benefits from a multi-mode approximate multiplier proposed i...
Every element of our contemporary lives has changed as a result of the widespread use of computing infrastructure and information technology in daily life. Less focus has been placed on the hardware components that underpin the computing revolution,...
With the development of artificial intelligence and edge computing, the demand for high-performance non-volatile memory devices has been rapidly increasing. Two-dimensional materials have ultrathin bodies, ultra-flattened surfaces, and superior physi...
Modern computer applications have become highly data-intensive, giving rise to an increase in data traffic between the processor and memory units. Computing-in-Memory (CiM) has shown great promise as a solution to this aptly named von Neumann bottlen...
This paper presents a design methodology for a low-power, low-chip-area, and high-resolution successive approximations register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The proposed method includes a segmented capacitive DAC (C-DAC) to reduce the pow...
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly expanded the deployment of resource-constrained devices, introducing new security and privacy challenges. To address these concerns, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of different approaches for Neural Architecture Search targeting resource-constrained devices such as microcontrollers, as well as the implementations of on-device learning techniques for them. Approaches...
This review discusses the principle of typical bandgap reference circuits and analyzes their sources of errors. In order to provide readers with a clear perspective, we categorize the error sources into four types: (a) amplifier offset; (b) high-orde...
This review is aimed at the integrated circuit design community and it explores slew-rate enhancement techniques for switched-capacitor amplifiers, with a primary focus on optimizing settling time within power constraints. Key challenges are addresse...
With the increasing demand for efficient deep learning models in resource-constrained environments, Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have emerged as a promising solution due to their ability to significantly reduce computational complexity while maintai...
This work presents a rad-hard 12-bit 3 MS/s resistor string DAC for space applications. The converter has been developed using rad-hardened techniques both at architecture and layout levels starting from a conventional topology. The design considers...
Different winner-take-all (WTA) and loser-take-all (LTA) circuits are studied, and their operations are analyzed in this review. The exclusive operation of the current conveyor, binary tree, and time-domain WTA/LTA architectures, as the most importan...
Multiple serial interfaces have emerged to meet system requirements across devices, ranging from slower-speed buses, such as I2C, to high throughput serial interfaces, like JESD204. To address the need for a medium-speed protocol and to resolve I2C s...
This work introduces a novel custom-designed 16-bit RISC-V processor, intended for educational purposes and for use in low-resource equipment. The implementation, despite providing registers of 16 bits, is based on RV32E RISC-V ISA, but with some key...
The analog–mixed signal simulation environment, used for verifying non-volatile memory macrocells, is presented. It has been adopted over the last decade, providing excellent results in verification coverage, efficiency, and flexibility. This m...
This work is focused on the performance of three different standard-cell-based comparator topologies, considering ultra-low-voltage (ULV) operation. The main application scenarios in which standard-cell-based comparators can be exploited are consider...
This paper presents a comprehensive review of GaAs HBT-based Doherty power amplifiers (DPAs) targeting 5G New Radio (NR) handset applications. Focusing on the critical challenges of linearity enhancement, back-off efficiency improvement, bandwidth ex...
5G Cell Search (CS) is the first step for user equipment (UE) to initiate communication with the 5G node B (gNB) every time it is powered ON. In cellular networks, CS is accomplished via synchronization signals (SS) broadcasted by gNB. 5G 3rd generat...
The noise-shaping (NS) successive-approximation-register (SAR) is a promising analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architecture which combines the benefits of SAR and Delta-Sigma (
We explore security aspects of a new computing paradigm that combines novel memristors and traditional Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) to construct a highly efficient analog and/or digital fabric that is especially well-suited to Machi...
On-chip optical accelerometers can be a promising alternative to capacitive, piezo-resistive, and piezo-electric accelerometers in some applications due to their immunity to electromagnetic interference and high sensitivity, which allow for robust op...
In contemporary devices, the number and diversity of sensors is increasing, thus, requiring both efficient and robust interfacing to the sensors. Implementing the interfacing systems in advanced integration technologies faces numerous issues due to m...
Physical side-channel attacks utilize power, electromagnetic (EM), or timing signatures from cryptographic implementations during operation to retrieve sensitive information from security-critical devices. This paper provides a comprehensive review o...
Nowadays, Graphical Processor Units (GPUs) are a great technology to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) processes; however, a challenge arises when the inclusion of a GPU is not feasible due to the cost, power consumption, or the size of the hard...
Memristor crossbar-based neural network systems offer high throughput with low energy consumption. A key advantage of on-chip training in these systems is their ability to mitigate the effects of device variability and faults. This paper presents an...
This paper presents a novel CMOS RF-to-DC converter for ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes powered by RF wireless power transfer. The proposed converter achieves 10% higher power conversion efficiency than a conventional rectifier, with only a 1%...
The fast-maturing photonic integration technology is calling for a versatile platform that supports both active and passive functions as well as high scalability through component miniaturization. Indium phosphide (InP) has long been recognized for i...
Datapath synthesis is a crucial step in synthesis flow and aims at globally minimizing an area by identifying shareable logic structures. This paper introduces a novel Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based datapath synthesis method based on graph isomor...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a linear, stable, low-power and PVT insensitive floating active resistor, which is realized using TSMC 40 nm CMOS process technology. By incorporating the automatic tuning circuit, this work has ac...
This paper presents a practical implementation and measurement results of power-efficient chip performance optimization, utilizing low-cost indirect measurement methods to support self-X properties (self-calibration, self-healing, self-optimization,...
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) represent emerging cryptographic primitives that exploit the uncertainty of the CMOS manufacturing process as an entropy source for generating unique, random and stable keys. These devices can be potentially use...
In this paper, we propose a Virtual Prototype (VP) driven verification methodology for Hardware (HW) peripherals. In particular, we combine two approaches that complement each other and use the VP as a readily available reference model: We use (A) Co...
This paper presents a low-voltage CMOS four-stage amplifier operating in the subthreshold region. The first design technique includes the cross-feedforward positive feedback frequency compensation (CFPFC) for obtaining better bandwidth efficiency in...
This paper presents an advanced Controller Area Network (CAN) bus transceiver designed to enhance security using frame-level authentication with the concept of a nonphysical virtual auxiliary data channel. We describe the newly conceived transceiver...
Because of the large number of parameters that interact in amplifier functions, determining dynamic regime parameters as well as the mode of function of amplifier stages is an extremely complex problem. This paper describes a LabVIEW application for...
This paper provides a comparative analysis of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and Salsa20 algorithm implementations, focusing on power consumption efficiency in passive RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags and ultra-low-power devices. The ma...
Implantable microelectrodes arrays are used to record electrical signals from surrounding neurons and have led to incredible improvements in modern neuroscience research. Digital signals resulting from conditioning and the analog-to-digital conversio...
This work presents a cost-effective optical frequency comb generator (CEOFCG) solution for generating multiple, equally spaced carriers in wavelength-division-multiplexing coherent optical fiber communication systems (WDM-COFCS). It enables the repla...
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