IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits – Early Access

IRIS: An Energy-Efficient Spatial Computing SoC for Real-Time Interactive Rendering and Modeling With Surface-Aware 3-D Gaussian Splatting

IRIS: An Energy-Efficient Spatial Computing SoC for Real-Time Interactive Rendering and Modeling With Surface-Aware 3-D Gaussian Splatting 150 150

Abstract:

The 3-D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), based on a machine learning-driven radiance field technique, is rapidly emerging as a next-generation solution in 3-D graphics. Owing to its short modeling time, computational simplicity, and high rendering quality, it is expected to replace traditional 3-D graphics on edge devices. However, its substantial memory …

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A 4.6 μW, 133-VPP Common-Mode Interference-Tolerant Biopotential Amplifier for Two-Electrode Recording System in 110-nm CMOS

A 4.6 μW, 133-VPP Common-Mode Interference-Tolerant Biopotential Amplifier for Two-Electrode Recording System in 110-nm CMOS 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents a biopotential recording analog front-end (AFE) specifically tailored for a two-electrode measurement system, capable of capturing small biopotential signals while tolerating a large common-mode interference (CMI) over 130 VPP. By leveraging the Miller effect, the proposed CMI-Follower provides a significantly low common-mode input impedance ( $Z_{\text {IN-CM-C}}$ ), achieving …

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A 1-8 GHz, 190MHz BB BW Mixer-First Receiver With Bootstrapped Mixer Switches Achieving Over 16dBm In-Band IIP3

A 1-8 GHz, 190MHz BB BW Mixer-First Receiver With Bootstrapped Mixer Switches Achieving Over 16dBm In-Band IIP3 150 150

Abstract:

In this article, we propose a wideband mixer-first receiver with improved in-band (IB) linearity. It uses bootstrapped N-path mixer switches to achieve a constant on-state gate–source voltage for large IB signals. We analyze the tradeoff between on-state resistance and off-state subthreshold current in conventional mixer switches and introduce a …

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A 28-nm 8–28-GHz Eight-Phase Clock Generator Using an Injection-Locked Dual-Feedback Ring Oscillator

A 28-nm 8–28-GHz Eight-Phase Clock Generator Using an Injection-Locked Dual-Feedback Ring Oscillator 150 150

Abstract:

The injection-locked ring oscillator is being widely used in high-speed wireline transceivers to generate multi-phase clocks. The fundamental limit lies in the tradeoff between the number of output phases and the maximum operation frequency for a given technology node. This work proposes the dual-feedback ring oscillator that breaks the tradeoff …

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A Scalable 1024-Channel Ultra-Low-Power Spike Sorting Chip With Event-Driven Detection and Spatial Clustering

A Scalable 1024-Channel Ultra-Low-Power Spike Sorting Chip With Event-Driven Detection and Spatial Clustering 150 150

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This article presents a 1024-channel ultra-low-power spike sorting chip featuring event-driven spike detection and spatial clustering for large-scale neural recording. To address power and scalability constraints in brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), the design integrates a compressive analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a two-stage spike detector that significantly reduces memory and processing …

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Ultra-Low-Power Dynamic-Bias Comparators With Self-Clocked Latch in 65-nm CMOS

Ultra-Low-Power Dynamic-Bias Comparators With Self-Clocked Latch in 65-nm CMOS 150 150

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This article introduces two comparators featuring a dynamic-bias preamplifier and self-clocked latches, tailored for ultra-low-power and medium-speed applications with <500- $\mu $ V input-referred noise (IRN). The proposed self-clocked latches are activated by the preamplifier outputs and therefore operate with a lower common-mode current, which in turn minimizes the crowbar current …

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DPIM: A 2T1C eDRAM Transformer-in-Memory Chip With Sparsity-Aware Quantization and Heterogeneous Dense–Sparse Core

DPIM: A 2T1C eDRAM Transformer-in-Memory Chip With Sparsity-Aware Quantization and Heterogeneous Dense–Sparse Core 150 150

Abstract:

Transformer models have revolutionized artificial intelligence (AI) applications across various domains, but their increasing complexity poses significant challenges in terms of computational and memory demands. While processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigms have been adopted to address these limitations, existing PIM-based transformer accelerators still face hurdles such as: 1) focusing solely on optimizing attention …

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A 25.8% 3σ/μ-Accuracy, 0.12%/°C Temperature Drift Sigma-Delta Modulation Calibrated Pseudo-Resistor With GΩ to TΩ Tuning Range

A 25.8% 3σ/μ-Accuracy, 0.12%/°C Temperature Drift Sigma-Delta Modulation Calibrated Pseudo-Resistor With GΩ to TΩ Tuning Range 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents an on-chip self-calibrated pseudo-resistor (PR) based on a sigma-delta modulation (SDM) loop. The proposed real-time calibration mechanism facilitates the implementation of an accurate low-drift ultra-high-value (UHV) PR with a wide tuning range at minimum hardware expenditure. Experimental results demonstrate that the resistance can be precisely tuned from 1.5 …

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A Low-Jitter Fractional-N Digital PLL Using a Quantization-Error-Compensating BBPD and an Orthogonal-Polynomial-Based LMS Calibration

A Low-Jitter Fractional-N Digital PLL Using a Quantization-Error-Compensating BBPD and an Orthogonal-Polynomial-Based LMS Calibration 150 150

Abstract:

This work presents a 10.0–11.5-GHz fractional- $N$ digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) using the quantization-error-compensating bang–bang phase detector (QEC-BBPD) that can minimize both the static delay ( $T_{\mathrm {S}}$ ) and the dynamic delay ( $T_{\mathrm {D}}$ ) required for removing the delta-sigma modulator’s ( $\Delta \Sigma $ M) quantization-error (Q-error). Since the …

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