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Topology-Aware Layout Design for Area-Decoupled Transistor Sizing in Multitier CFET SRAM

Topology-Aware Layout Design for Area-Decoupled Transistor Sizing in Multitier CFET SRAM 150 150
Author(s): Yutian Zhang, Jiaquan Fang, Khawar Sarfraz, Mansun Chan

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This work shows that a multitier complementary FET (CFET) static random access memory (SRAM) can decouple the area term from PPA-oriented transistor sizing. A topology-aware layout design is used to construct orthogonal and point-symmetric multitier CFET SRAM cells under 1-nm-class design rules, enabling high-density (HD), high-performance (HP), and high-current (HC) …

Published in: IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits
Page(s): 159 – 166
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2329-9231
DOI: 10.1109/JXCDC.2026.3709007
Publisher: IEEE

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A Mixed-Signal SAT Solver for Exploring Nonideal Effects and Scalability in Analog Computation

A Mixed-Signal SAT Solver for Exploring Nonideal Effects and Scalability in Analog Computation 150 150
Author(s): Ahmet Yusuf Salim, Soner Seçkiner, Eslam Elmitwalli, Zeljko Ignjatovic, Selçuk Köse

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Recent years have seen growing interest in custom and nature-inspired computing methods for solving computationally challenging combinatorial optimization problems. The Boolean satisfiability (SAT), a canonical nondeterministic polynomial (NP)-complete problem, has remained a focal point due to its wide applicability in artificial intelligence, cryptography, and formal verification. This article presents …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 19
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3721413
Publisher: IEEE

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A Performance Comparison Between W-Band Sequential and Doherty Power Amplifiers for Power Back-Off Efficiency Improvement

A Performance Comparison Between W-Band Sequential and Doherty Power Amplifiers for Power Back-Off Efficiency Improvement 150 150
Author(s): Yahia Ibrahim, Ali M. Niknejad

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This work presents a W-band sequential power amplifier (PA) featuring a compact and low-loss output combiner that enhances power back-off (PBO) efficiency by combining a main PA and an auxiliary PA through an isolated combining output network. The proposed architecture is analyzed and experimentally compared to the conventional Doherty PA (…

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 12
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3708783
Publisher: IEEE

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A 300-GHz 2-D Scalable 4 × 4 Phased-Array Receiver With Half-Wavelength Element Spacing in 65-nm CMOS

A 300-GHz 2-D Scalable 4 × 4 Phased-Array Receiver With Half-Wavelength Element Spacing in 65-nm CMOS 150 150
Author(s): Huanting Deng, Kaizhe Guo, Yihan Wang, Houyi Yan, Jiyao Wang, Mengru Yang, Jian Guo, Peng Gu, Xiaohu You, Dixian Zhao

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This article presents a 300-GHz 2-D scalable $4\times 4$ phased-array receiver (RX) with half-wavelength element spacing in 65-nm CMOS. To achieve high scalability, a hybrid local oscillator (LO)–intermediate frequency (IF) beamforming scheme based on a coupled oscillator array is proposed, together with an area-efficient aperture-coupled antenna implemented on quartz. 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.2026.3711687
Publisher: IEEE

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A 436–472 GHz 4-Element IF Beamforming Phased-Array Receiver in 65-nm CMOS

A 436–472 GHz 4-Element IF Beamforming Phased-Array Receiver in 65-nm CMOS 150 150
Author(s): Hao Guo, Hao-Tao Hu, Zhicheng Lin, Zijun Guo, Xiaoyue Xia, Kaizhe Guo, Kam Man Shum, Pui-In Mak, Chi Hou Chan

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This article presents a 436–472GHz four-element intermediate-frequency (IF) beamforming phased-array receiver fabricated in 65-nm CMOS, targeting scalable terahertz (THz) phased-array systems. The proposed receiver adopts a two-step mixing scheme to reduce the area overhead of the IF beamforming implementation, thereby enhancing the array scalability at THz frequencies. Each receive channel …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 14
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3710258
Publisher: IEEE

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An Inductive-Load-Modulated Multiband Phase Shifter With <0.38°/0.12-dB RMS Errors

An Inductive-Load-Modulated Multiband Phase Shifter With <0.38°/0.12-dB RMS Errors 150 150
Author(s): Xinyi Wu, Chenxu Zhao, Hui Chen, Xun Bao, Yaolong Hu, Aoyang Zhang, Leibo Liu

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This letter presents a compact, multiband reflection-type phase shifter (RTPS) implemented in 65-nm CMOS that overcomes the narrowband limitations of conventional passive loads. The proposed design utilizes an inductive-load modulation. By injecting a secondary signal to actively manipulate the magnetic flux, the equivalent inductance is boosted to enable operation across …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 170 – 173
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2026.3694867
Publisher: IEEE

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A 138 Gb/s D-Band 2-D Scalable Transceiver Array With On-Chip Antennas Achieving Sub-1-pJ/b Efficiency in 28-nm Bulk CMOS

A 138 Gb/s D-Band 2-D Scalable Transceiver Array With On-Chip Antennas Achieving Sub-1-pJ/b Efficiency in 28-nm Bulk CMOS 150 150
Author(s): Hesham Beshary, Yikuan Chen, Ali M. Niknejad

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This article presents a D-band 2-D scalable phased array that integrates a $2{\,}\times{\,} 2$ transceiving (TRX) radio frequency (RF) beamformer with on-chip antennas (OCAs) and a $\times 16$ local-oscillator (LO) multiplication chain. The 2-D array scalability is demonstrated by tiling $2{\,}\times{\,} 2$ chips into an array using a low-cost package to build a 16…

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 15
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3704818
Publisher: IEEE

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A 40k-Pixel Multimodal Biophysiology Monitoring Platform With 10k Concurrent Electrophysiology Channels and a Mixer-Embedded ΣΔ Impedance Sensor

A 40k-Pixel Multimodal Biophysiology Monitoring Platform With 10k Concurrent Electrophysiology Channels and a Mixer-Embedded ΣΔ Impedance Sensor 150 150
Author(s): Hangxing Liu, Fuze Jiang, Jingjing Zang, Marco Saif, Thomas Burger, Stephan C. F. Neuhauss, Hua Wang

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Understanding complex physiological processes requires the ability to monitor multiple biological modalities concurrently, as electrical, ionic, and biochemical processes are tightly coupled and cannot be holistically described by single-mode sensors. This article presents a 40 nm CMOS multimodal cellular physiology monitoring platform that integrates 40 960 reconfigurable pixels at $10.8~\mu $ m pixel pitch. …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 12
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3684715
Publisher: IEEE

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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
Author(s): Chenghao Zhang, Maliang Liu, Yuan Chang, Yihang Yang, Jinhai Xiao, Yintang Yang, Yong Chen

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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 …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1907 – 1920
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3671459
Publisher: IEEE

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