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Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable XGBoost Inference Accelerator With Modular Unit Trees via Selective Node Execution and Data Movement

Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable XGBoost Inference Accelerator With Modular Unit Trees via Selective Node Execution and Data Movement 150 150

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The extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) has emerged as a powerful AI algorithm, achieving high accuracy and winning multiple Kaggle competitions in various tasks including medical diagnosis, recommendation systems, and autonomous driving. It has great potential for running on edge devices due to its binary tree-based simple computing kernel, offering unique …

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A 38.1 fJ/Bit Capacitive-Latch True Random Number Generator Featuring Both Autozeroed Inverter Mismatch and Accelerated Evaluation

A 38.1 fJ/Bit Capacitive-Latch True Random Number Generator Featuring Both Autozeroed Inverter Mismatch and Accelerated Evaluation 150 150

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This work presents a capacitive-latch (C-latch) true random number generator (TRNG) that achieves both inverter mismatch autozeroing and accelerated evaluation by utilizing coupling capacitors. The proposed C-latch TRNG samples the mismatch between inverter equalization voltages through coupling capacitors during the equalization phase, effectively autozeroing inverter mismatch and enabling high-entropy raw …

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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 10.9nV/√Hz, 74.9dB-DR, 20MS/s Ultrasound Analog Front End for Fully-Digital Beamforming

A 10.9nV/√Hz, 74.9dB-DR, 20MS/s Ultrasound Analog Front End for Fully-Digital Beamforming 150 150

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This letter presents a compact and energy-efficient analog front-end (AFE) circuit for fully-digital beamforming in endoscopic and catheter-based 3D-ultrasound imaging. The AFE converts single-ended analog input from each transducer element into a 10-bit digital output through a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a 20 MS/s SAR ADC. To minimize chip area …

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A 6.2b-ENOB 2.5 GS/s Flash-and-VCO-Based Subranging ADC Using a Residue Shifting Technique

A 6.2b-ENOB 2.5 GS/s Flash-and-VCO-Based Subranging ADC Using a Residue Shifting Technique 150 150

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This letter presents a 7-bit pipelined subranging ADC that integrates a 3-bit flash ADC with a ring VCO-based quantizer. A resistor-ladder-based residue shifter (RLRS) replaces traditional residue amplifiers, efficiently shifting the residue voltage into the most linear region of the $K_{textrm {VCO}}$ , thereby eliminating the need for post-linearity calibration. …

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A Ping-Pong Charge-Sharing Locking PLL With Implicit Reference Doubling and Simultaneous Frequency/Duty-Cycle Calibrations

A Ping-Pong Charge-Sharing Locking PLL With Implicit Reference Doubling and Simultaneous Frequency/Duty-Cycle Calibrations 150 150

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We propose a new ping-pong (PP) charge-sharing locking (CSL) phase-locked loop (PLL) architecture that enhances the strength of charge-injection into the oscillator’s LC-tank using complementary charge-sharing capacitors during both positive and negative halves of the reference clock, effectively achieving an implicit $2times $ reference frequency multiplication. The design includes a …

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A 76.9 ppm/K Nano-Watt PVT-Insensitive CMOS Voltage Reference Operating From 4 to 300 K for Integrated Cryogenic Quantum Interface

A 76.9 ppm/K Nano-Watt PVT-Insensitive CMOS Voltage Reference Operating From 4 to 300 K for Integrated Cryogenic Quantum Interface 150 150

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This work proposes a temperature and process-compensated low-power Cryo-CMOS voltage reference without trimming for quantum integrated interface, which is capable of operating continuously from room temperature (RT) down to cryogenic temperatures. By compensating for the main accuracy limiting factors including the process dependence of the transistor threshold voltage, device mismatch …

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A Low-Power Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Receiver With Bias-Tunable Mixer and Effective Switch Resistance Compensation

A Low-Power Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Receiver With Bias-Tunable Mixer and Effective Switch Resistance Compensation 150 150

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This article presents a mixer-first blocker-tolerant receiver (RX) with effective switch resistance ( ${R} _{\text {SW}}$ ) compensation and high-Q selectivity. By analyzing the impact of non-ideal 1/N LO duty cycle and effective ${R} _{\text {SW}}$ on mixer-first RX, an effective ${R} _{\text {SW}}$ compensation technique is proposed to mitigate noise figure (…

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A Multi-Core Series-Resonance CMOS Oscillator

A Multi-Core Series-Resonance CMOS Oscillator 150 150

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Multi-core and series-resonance (SR) techniques have been proposed to achieve ultra-low phase noise (PN) performance. In this article, a scalable ring-coupling scheme is proposed for multi-core expansion. The mechanism provides intrinsic oscillation and PN reduction without compromising the passive network, specifically tailored for the SR oscillator. The dual closed ring …

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