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On-Chip Charge-Trap-Transistor-Based Mismatch Calibration of an 8-Bit Thermometer Current-Source DAC

On-Chip Charge-Trap-Transistor-Based Mismatch Calibration of an 8-Bit Thermometer Current-Source DAC 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents an on-chip mismatch calibration technique for current-source digital-to-analog converters (DACs) using charge-trap transistors (CTTs) in 22-nm FDSOI technology. The proposed method exploits programmable threshold voltage (VTH) shifts in CTTs to locally tune the current of near-minimum-sized devices without external trimming. A compact 8-bit thermometer DAC is implemented …

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A 10.2 V 8-Channel Neural Stimulator With Nearly Constant Efficiency Across 90% Current Range and a TDM ADC-Based One-Shot Charge Balancing With < 6 mV Residue

A 10.2 V 8-Channel Neural Stimulator With Nearly Constant Efficiency Across 90% Current Range and a TDM ADC-Based One-Shot Charge Balancing With < 6 mV Residue 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents an 8-channel current-mode stimulator achieving a ±10.2 V voltage compliance in a standard CMOS process, supporting up to 4.5 mA stimulation current per channel. The proposed dynamic charge pump (DCP), which adaptively sizes its switches based on the stimulation current, helps achieve ~15% higher power efficiency at low currents compared …

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220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS

220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS 150 150

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This letter presents a broadband $G$ -band power amplifier (PA) designed in a 130-nm silicon-germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. Unlike dual-band matching and staggered tuning techniques to obtain large operation bandwidth (BW), we propose a common broadband amplification stage in this work for its flexibility. In each stage, inductive …

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PANNA: A 558 TOPS/W Pipelined All-Analog Neural Network Accelerator in 22 nm FD-SOI

PANNA: A 558 TOPS/W Pipelined All-Analog Neural Network Accelerator in 22 nm FD-SOI 150 150

Abstract:

Analog computing offers intrinsic energy and latency benefits that makes it attractive for real-time and edge applications. Conventional analog accelerators suffer from repeated conversions between analog and digital domain, which degrades efficiency and throughput. We propose an all-analog pipelined neural network accelerator architecture in 22 nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (…

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A Compact, Highly-Digital Sensor-Fusion-Based Joint V dd-Temperature Sensor for SoC Thermal Management

A Compact, Highly-Digital Sensor-Fusion-Based Joint V dd-Temperature Sensor for SoC Thermal Management 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents a fine-grained thermal sensing network for thermal management in SoCs. Sensor nodes in this network are made up of joint supply voltage ( $V_{\mathrm {dd}}$ ) and temperature ( $T$ ) sensors, which are compact and highly digital. Measurements from these simple but imperfect sensors are jointly processed to extract …

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A Linear Dynamic Voltage Scaling Technique With Adaptive Minimum Voltage Headroom Tracking for Implantable Neurostimulation

A Linear Dynamic Voltage Scaling Technique With Adaptive Minimum Voltage Headroom Tracking for Implantable Neurostimulation 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents a linear dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) technique using a dual-loop multistage charge-pump maintaining the minimum voltage headroom for implantable neurostimulation. By adopting an analog DVS with adaptive feedback divider, the stimulus current source could be always kept operating at the boundary of the saturation region and the …

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MIX-ACIM: A 28-nm Mixed-Precision Analog Compute-in-Memory With Digital Feature Restoration for Vector-Matrix Multiplication

MIX-ACIM: A 28-nm Mixed-Precision Analog Compute-in-Memory With Digital Feature Restoration for Vector-Matrix Multiplication 150 150

Abstract:

A mixed-precision analog compute-in-memory (Mix-ACIM) is presented for mixed-precision vector-matrix multiplication (VMM). The design features an all-analog current-domain fixed-point (FxP) VMM with floating-point conversion and feature restoration. A 28 nm CMOS test chip shows 41 TOPS/W and 24 TOPS/mm2 for FxP (8-bit input/weight and 12-bit output) and 24.18 TFLOPS/W and 3.3 …

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A 2 pA/ √Hz Input-Referred Noise TIA in 180-nm CMOS With 2.5GHz Bandwidth for Optical Receiver

A 2 pA/ √Hz Input-Referred Noise TIA in 180-nm CMOS With 2.5GHz Bandwidth for Optical Receiver 150 150

Abstract:

This letter describes an ultra-low-noise, high-speed transimpedance amplifier (TIA) applied to the analog front-end (AFE) circuit of the high-sensitivity optical receiver. A combination of a three-stage amplifier and two positive feedback Miller capacitors is introduced to comprehensively reduce the input-referred noise current (IRNC) of a shunt-feedback TIA (SFTIA) and to …

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