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A 40-GS/s 8-bit Time-Interleaved ADC Featuring SFDR-Enhanced Sampling and Power-Efficient Time-Domain Quantization in 28-nm CMOS

A 40-GS/s 8-bit Time-Interleaved ADC Featuring SFDR-Enhanced Sampling and Power-Efficient Time-Domain Quantization in 28-nm CMOS 150 150

Abstract:

This article reports a 40-GS/s 8-bit time-interleaved (TI) time-domain (TD) gated-ring-oscillator analog-to-digital converter (GRO-ADC). An interleaving number of 32 is achieved with a single-channel 8-bit GRO-ADC operating at 1.25 GS/s, leading to a low front-end design complexity compared to recently published arts. The sampling front end employs a linearity-enhanced boosted …

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A 60-GHz Low-Noise mmWave Divider-Less Fractional-N Cascaded PLL Achieving −250.2-dB FoMJ in 28-nm CMOS

A 60-GHz Low-Noise mmWave Divider-Less Fractional-N Cascaded PLL Achieving −250.2-dB FoMJ in 28-nm CMOS 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents a fractional- ${ {N}}$ cascaded phase-locked loop (PLL) operating in the mmWave band from 55.8 to 64.2 GHz. The cascaded architecture consists of a first-stage fractional- ${ {N}}$ reference-sampling (RS) PLL and a second-stage sub-sampling (SS) PLL, incorporating two key innovations. The first-stage RS-PLL leverages a fully differential voltage-domain quantization-noise cancellation (…

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A 475-nW Area-Efficient Programmable Analog Feature Extraction Filterbank for Audio Classification

A 475-nW Area-Efficient Programmable Analog Feature Extraction Filterbank for Audio Classification 150 150

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Audio classification in edge devices has many applications and can be implemented at varying levels of complexity, typically consisting of a feature extractor followed by a classifier. Such devices are often always-on, constantly listening to their surroundings, and have a small form factor; therefore, they require low-power operation and high …

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A 0.29 pJ/b 5.27 Tb/s/mm UCIe Advanced Package Link With 2.5-D CoWoS Interposer and a 0.52 pJ/b 0.448 Tb/s/mm UCIe Standard Package Link With Organic Substrate in 3 nm FinFET

A 0.29 pJ/b 5.27 Tb/s/mm UCIe Advanced Package Link With 2.5-D CoWoS Interposer and a 0.52 pJ/b 0.448 Tb/s/mm UCIe Standard Package Link With Organic Substrate in 3 nm FinFET 150 150

Abstract:

This work presents two die-to-die (D2D) wireline transceivers, one compliant with the UCIe advanced package (UCIe-AP) and the other with the UCIe standard package (UCIe-SP) standard, developed in 3 nm FinFET. The Universal Chiplet interconnect express (UCIe)-AP link has 64 RX and 64 TX data lanes in one PHY module and …

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A Low-Reference-Spur Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier Using Sub-Sampling Frequency Tracking Loop and Injection Pulse Timing Calibrator

A Low-Reference-Spur Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier Using Sub-Sampling Frequency Tracking Loop and Injection Pulse Timing Calibrator 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents an injection-locked clock multiplier (ILCM) achieving the low-reference spur (spur ${}_{\mathrm {REF}}$ ) with minimal overhead of a calibrator. To remove the dominant sources of frequency error, which are frequency drift ( $f_{\mathrm {DF}}$ ), phase offset ( $\varPhi _{\mathrm {OS}}$ ), and injection-induced phase error ( $\varPhi _{\mathrm {INJ}}$ ), the ILCM …

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A 77-fJ/bit 8-Gbps Adaptive-Voltage-Compatible Self-Timed Die-to-Die Link for 2.5-D and 3-D Interconnect in 3 nm

A 77-fJ/bit 8-Gbps Adaptive-Voltage-Compatible Self-Timed Die-to-Die Link for 2.5-D and 3-D Interconnect in 3 nm 150 150

Abstract:

This work presents a self-timed die-to-die link that serializes four data bits per pin for 2.5-D, or 3-D interconnects using a standard adaptive digital clock and voltage supply. The link achieves 8 Gbps of per-pin bandwidth with a latency of one cycle, energy efficiency of 77 fJ/b, and bandwidth density of 44…

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A 54- $\\mu$ W Design-Agnostic Clock, Voltage, and EM-Pulse Fault-Injection Attack Detection Using Time-to-Voltage Conversion

A 54- $\\mu$ W Design-Agnostic Clock, Voltage, and EM-Pulse Fault-Injection Attack Detection Using Time-to-Voltage Conversion 150 150

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This article presents a state-of-the-art design-agnostic clock, voltage, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-based fault-injection attack (FIA) detector. The efficient conversion of time-to-voltage information by integrating amplifiers transforms the time anomaly into the voltage domain, enabling its detection at a lower power consumption. The clock-glitch detector design consumes only $53~\mu $ W …

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0.13 K NETD D-Band CMOS Passive Imager With Noise Suppression Analysis

0.13 K NETD D-Band CMOS Passive Imager With Noise Suppression Analysis 150 150

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This article presents a new system design and in-depth analysis of a wideband, low-power passive imaging receiver based on a Dicke-switch architecture, implemented in 28 nm CMOS technology. The proposed structure employs a three-coil gm-boosting technique for the low-noise amplifier (LNA). This approach reduces the LNA’s noise figure (NF) and …

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A 39.4-mW 300 MHz-BW 70.9 dB-SNDR Hybrid ADC With Resistive Input and 200 fs, rms-Jitter Tolerance

A 39.4-mW 300 MHz-BW 70.9 dB-SNDR Hybrid ADC With Resistive Input and 200 fs, rms-Jitter Tolerance 150 150

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This letter presents a power-efficient hybrid ADC architecture: a low-resolution continuous-time (CT) delta-sigma modulator (DSM) followed by a time-interleaved pipeline stage which further quantizes the quantization noise of the DSM. In the frontend CT DSM, the resistive input makes the ADC easy-to-drive, and the direct-charge-dump feedback (DCD FB) provides a …

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