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A 168 nW to 44.3 Mb/s Adaptable TRNG With 400 mV Attack-Resilient Hybrid RO Core

A 168 nW to 44.3 Mb/s Adaptable TRNG With 400 mV Attack-Resilient Hybrid RO Core 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents an adaptable ring oscillator (RO)-true random number generator (TRNG) that removes the fixed power–throughput tradeoff by selecting delay-cell physics at run time. A hybrid core uses a current-starved inverter in low-power (LP) mode to amplify slew-limited jitter for high bit-efficiency at low frequency, and a …

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A Benchmark of Cryo-CMOS Dynamic Comparators in a 40 nm Bulk CMOS Technology

A Benchmark of Cryo-CMOS Dynamic Comparators in a 40 nm Bulk CMOS Technology 150 150

Abstract:

All cryo-CMOS quantum-classical control interfaces require an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) bridging the analog qubits and the digital control logic. Dynamic comparators play a crucial role in the precision, speed, and power consumption of these ADCs. Yet, their performance is severely impacted by the cryogenic environment. Therefore, this letter benchmarks, for …

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An 8.5 MHz 42 ppm/°C Relaxation Oscillator With Charge-Pump Delay Cancellation and Digital Chopping Demodulation

An 8.5 MHz 42 ppm/°C Relaxation Oscillator With Charge-Pump Delay Cancellation and Digital Chopping Demodulation 150 150

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This letter presents an RC oscillator featuring a mixed-signal compensation loop that simultaneously mitigates comparator offset, loop delay, switch on-resistance, and temperature dependency. The oscillator employs an auxiliary comparator, a charge pump, and a differential difference amplifier (DDA)-based main comparator to suppress ramping voltage overshoots caused by device and …

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A Low-Jitter Fractional-N Digital PLL Using a Quantization-Error-Compensating BBPD and an Orthogonal-Polynomial-Based LMS Calibration

A Low-Jitter Fractional-N Digital PLL Using a Quantization-Error-Compensating BBPD and an Orthogonal-Polynomial-Based LMS Calibration 150 150

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This work presents a 10.0–11.5-GHz fractional- $N$ digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) using the quantization-error-compensating bang–bang phase detector (QEC-BBPD) that can minimize both the static delay ( $T_{\mathrm {S}}$ ) and the dynamic delay ( $T_{\mathrm {D}}$ ) required for removing the delta-sigma modulator’s ( $\Delta \Sigma $ M) quantization-error (Q-error). Since the …

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A 40.68-MHz, 200-ns-Settling Active Rectifier for mm-Sized Implants

A 40.68-MHz, 200-ns-Settling Active Rectifier for mm-Sized Implants 150 150

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This letter describes a fast-settling active rectifier for a 40.68 MHz wireless power transfer receiver for implantable applications. Fast-settling and low power are achieved through a novel direct voltage-domain compensation technique. The rectifier maintains high efficiency during load and link variations required for downlink communication. The system was fabricated in 40nm …

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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 800GbE PAM-4 PHY Transceiver for 42 dB Copper and Direct-Drive Optical Applications in 7 nm

An 800GbE PAM-4 PHY Transceiver for 42 dB Copper and Direct-Drive Optical Applications in 7 nm 150 150

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This work presents a low power DSP-based single-chip 800GbE PAM-4 PHY transceiver in 7 nm process capable of driving eight lanes of up to 112-Gb/s. It supports both electrical and optical links with monolithic integrated laser driver enabling direct-drive PAM-4 output capability for EML and silicon photonics. The transceiver supports 42 …

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LIF Neuron Based on a Charge-Powered Ring Oscillator in Weak Inversion Achieving 201 fJ/SOP

LIF Neuron Based on a Charge-Powered Ring Oscillator in Weak Inversion Achieving 201 fJ/SOP 150 150

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This letter presents the experimental results of a leaky-integrate-and-fire neuron (LIF) neuron based on time-domain analog circuitry. This kind of neuron is the core of spiking neural network (SNN) used in edge applications. Edge applications require power-efficient neuron designs whose power consumption is extremely low when idle, and low when …

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A 0-to- 10μF Off-Chip Output Capacitor-Scalable Boost Converter Achieving 96.68% Peak Efficiency

A 0-to- 10μF Off-Chip Output Capacitor-Scalable Boost Converter Achieving 96.68% Peak Efficiency 150 150

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This letter presents an off-chip output capacitor (CO)-scalable (OCS) boost converter. The proposed OCS boost converter is possible to operate both with and without the off-chip CO. In addition, it operates in a whole conversion ratio (CR) range over 1 while maintaining a small current ripple of an inductor, resulting …

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