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A Ka-Band Time-Modulated Phase-Invariant Variable-Gain Amplifier With 30-dB Gain Tuning Based on Duty-Cycle Control

A Ka-Band Time-Modulated Phase-Invariant Variable-Gain Amplifier With 30-dB Gain Tuning Based on Duty-Cycle Control 150 150
Author(s): Dongfan Xu, Minzhe Tang, Haiyun Gu, Yuxuan Liu, Yilun Chen, Ziyuan Ren, Minghao Fan, Daxu Zhang, Yi Zhang, Duo Li, Zheng Li, Zezheng Liu, Chun Wang, Yudai Yamazaki, Yuncheng Zhang, Kazuaki Kunihiro, Hiroyuki Sakai, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada

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This article presents a time-modulated variable-gain amplifier (VGA) employing a clock-sampling topology governed by a duty-cycle control (DCC) loop. By modulating the effective operation time of the amplifier rather than altering its RF bias conditions, for precise tuning of the clock duty cycle, enabling phase consistency at millimeter-wave frequencies. The …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3695362
Publisher: IEEE

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GUARD: A Clock and Voltage Glitch Detector With On-Demand Protection

GUARD: A Clock and Voltage Glitch Detector With On-Demand Protection 150 150
Author(s): Mao Li, Sanu K. Mathew, Vivek De, Mingoo Seok

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This article presents GUARD, a fully digital, variation-tolerant detector for clock and voltage glitch attacks, featuring an integrated on-demand protection mechanism. Fabricated in 28-nm CMOS, GUARD provides robust security for digital systems by monitoring the system clock for maliciously injected faults. It employs a pair of optimized time-to-digital converters (TDCs) …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 12
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3696209
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Jaehong Jung, Eunseok Lee, Donghyeon Han, Jinchen Wang, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Ruonan Han

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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 (…

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3652928
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Patrice Abbie D. Legaspi, Shubham Yadav, Mark S. Oude Alink, Bram Nauta

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 15
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3655426
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Didem Turker Melek, James Vandersand, R. Navin Kumar, Pyare M. Sarkar, Prakash BS, Adrian Leuciuc, Kevin Geary, Shaojun Ma, Chirag M. Mehta, Basant Bothra, Shashi Jain, Pawan Sabharwal, Ranjan Vaish, Kirti Bhanushali, Yutong Ding, Craig Frost, John Annunziata, Krishanu Sadhu, Dimitris Kyritsis, Jeff Bostak, Ming Li, Steve Williams, Ken Chang

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3651425
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Hyeonjun Nam, Hyogyoung An, Changmin An, Sungjin Kim, Heein Yoon

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 11
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3650135
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Brian Zimmer, Stephen G. Tell, C. Thomas Gray

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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…

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 10
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3658215
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Yudhajit Ray, Archisman Ghosh, Sarthak Antal, Shreyas Sen

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3655593
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Zahra Mohseni, Sajjad Sabbaghi, Hai Yu, Peixin Han, Yuhao Yuan, Qun Jane Gu

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 830 – 846
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3646943
Publisher: IEEE

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