IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

A Fast Transient Response Fully Integrated LDO With a Novel Resetting Oscillator Control Method

A Fast Transient Response Fully Integrated LDO With a Novel Resetting Oscillator Control Method 150 150

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This article introduces a novel resetting oscillator regulator (ROR) control method for low-dropout (LDO) regulators, designed to achieve fast settling times for both load and reference input steps. The proposed ROR integrates a high-speed loop that independently functions as an oscillator in a closed-loop configuration, along with a separate high-rate …

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A Millimeter-Wave Direct Digital Transmitter Using Multiphase Subharmonic Switching PA

A Millimeter-Wave Direct Digital Transmitter Using Multiphase Subharmonic Switching PA 150 150

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This article presents a direct digital transmitter (TX) employing a multiphase subharmonic switching (MP-SHS) power amplifier (PA) to achieve both high peak and power back-off (PBO) efficiency with wide signal bandwidth. A phase-shifted subharmonic (SH) local oscillator (LO) divider is proposed to suppress SH spurs with minimal implementation overhead by …

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Fully Analog, Multi-Lag, RF Correlators for Code-Domain Radars Using Margin Propagation

Fully Analog, Multi-Lag, RF Correlators for Code-Domain Radars Using Margin Propagation 150 150

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We present a fully analog, multiplier-free, sampled-domain RF correlator to achieve high energy efficiency for radar workloads. The RF correlator employs a split-source follower architecture that leverages the margin propagation (MP) computing paradigm in the sampled domain. As a proof of concept, we implement a $256 \times 256$ fully analog cross correlator …

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An 8.62-μW 75-dB DRSoC Fully Integrated SoC for Spoken Language Understanding

An 8.62-μW 75-dB DRSoC Fully Integrated SoC for Spoken Language Understanding 150 150

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We present a sub-10- $\mu $ W fully integrated SoC for on-device spoken language understanding (SLU). Its analog feature extractor (FEx) applies global and per-channel automatic gain control (AGC) to extend the system’s dynamic range (DR)—a critical requirement for real-world scenarios, including far-field operations. The on-chip streaming-mode recurrent …

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A 9.5-pJ/bit 40-Mbps Quasi-Static Body Channel Transceiver With Compact Adaptive Equalization

A 9.5-pJ/bit 40-Mbps Quasi-Static Body Channel Transceiver With Compact Adaptive Equalization 150 150

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The key challenge in body-coupled communication (BCC) is achieving high-speed and energy-efficient data transmission in dynamically varying channels, particularly addressing variations in dominant pole frequency and channel gain caused by motion and environmental changes in the quasi-static band. This article proposes a broadband BCC transceiver (TRX) with a compact adaptive …

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A 30-MHz Wideband 92.7-dB SNR 99.6% Accurate Bioimpedance Spectroscopy IC Using Time-to-Digital Demodulation and Co-Prime Delay-Locked Sampling

A 30-MHz Wideband 92.7-dB SNR 99.6% Accurate Bioimpedance Spectroscopy IC Using Time-to-Digital Demodulation and Co-Prime Delay-Locked Sampling 150 150

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The impedance of biological tissues provides valuable physiological information up to tens of megahertz. Conventional bioimpedance readout methods face significant tradeoffs between power consumption and measurement accuracy at higher frequencies. To address these limitations, this article presents a 30-MHz wideband bioimpedance spectroscopy integrated circuit (IC) using time-to-digital (T–D) demodulation. …

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ROZK: An Energy-Efficient DNN Accelerator Based on Reconfigurable NoC and Local Zero-Skipping

ROZK: An Energy-Efficient DNN Accelerator Based on Reconfigurable NoC and Local Zero-Skipping 150 150

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Zero-skipping is a famous technique to improve the energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. When the zero-skipping is realized with encoded data using lossless compression, irregular and unpredictable size of data due to inconsistent compression rate incurs several design issues including: 1) load imbalance from irregularity of data stored …

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A 4 × 50 Gb/s 2.9-pJ/b NRZ VCSEL-Based Co-Packaged Optical Link With Fiber Termination

A 4 × 50 Gb/s 2.9-pJ/b NRZ VCSEL-Based Co-Packaged Optical Link With Fiber Termination 150 150

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A four-channel vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based co-packaged optical (CPO) transceiver (TRX) is demonstrated, integrating a photodiode (PD) array, a trans-impedance amplifier front-end integrated circuit (TIA-FE IC), an electrical receiver (RX) IC, and optical fiber termination on a single package on the receive side. The transmitter (TX) counterpart incorporates …

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A Low-EMI, High-DR Class-D Audio Amplifier With Double-Sided Voltage-Boosting Modulation

A Low-EMI, High-DR Class-D Audio Amplifier With Double-Sided Voltage-Boosting Modulation 150 150

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This article presents a digital-input class-D audio amplifier (CDA) that employs a double-sided voltage-boosting (DSVB) modulation scheme, integrating a capacitively coupled chopper amplifier (CCCA) with a single-inductor buck–boost power stage. The CCCA achieves a high dynamic range (DR) due to its very low noise floor and is implemented with …

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