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A 31.5–36-GHz Low-Spur Digitally Assisted Gain-Boosting Charge-Sharing Locking PLL Achieving 54-fs RMS Jitter

A 31.5–36-GHz Low-Spur Digitally Assisted Gain-Boosting Charge-Sharing Locking PLL Achieving 54-fs RMS Jitter 150 150
Author(s): Chawin Khongprasongsiri, Sayan Kumar, Patchara Sawakewang, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Teerachot Siriburanon

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This article presents a 31.5–36 GHz digitally assisted gain-boosting (GB) charge-sharing locking (CSL) phase-locked loop (PLL) that achieves record-low reference spurs while maintaining sub-60 fs integrated jitter. In conventional CSL PLLs, reference spur suppression is fundamentally traded against loop bandwidth, whereas ping-pong CSL (PP-CSL) approaches typically require complex duty-cycle calibration. 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.2026.3721352
Publisher: IEEE

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A Continuous-Time Incremental Zoom ADC With Extended Quantization, Easy-to-Drive Capacitive Input and Deadband-Embedded Gm-C Loop Filter

A Continuous-Time Incremental Zoom ADC With Extended Quantization, Easy-to-Drive Capacitive Input and Deadband-Embedded Gm-C Loop Filter 150 150
Author(s): Chaoyang Xing, Yilu Cui, Yi Zhong, Nan Sun, Lu Jie

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This article presents a continuous-time (CT) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) featuring an incremental zoom with extended quantization architecture. The proposed MASH topology comprises an 8-bit oversampled successive-approximation register (SAR) ADC as the first stage, a 1-bit incremental CT delta-sigma modulator (CT-DSM) as the second stage, and a 12-bit Nyquist SAR ADC …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3717666
Publisher: IEEE

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A 92.1-dB SNDR Easy-Driving Two-Step NS-SAR-Based Incremental ADC With Concurrent Gain-Error Plus Noise Suppression

A 92.1-dB SNDR Easy-Driving Two-Step NS-SAR-Based Incremental ADC With Concurrent Gain-Error Plus Noise Suppression 150 150
Author(s): Chenyang Li, Tzu-Han Wang, Dongsuk Kang, Ken Li, Xitie Zhang, Wei-En Lee, Visvesh S. Sathe, Shaolan Li

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This article presents a two-step incremental analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that achieves high resolution and energy efficiency while substantially easing the input driving constraints and interstage gain variation. By employing a level-shifted sub-ranging architecture with an input-tracking (IT) feature, the design obviates direct input sampling, thereby significantly relaxing the demands on …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 884 – 897
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3635146
Publisher: IEEE

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TD-dAJC: A 100 MS/s 2 pJ/Pixel Time-Domain Weight and Integrating-MAC-Based Direct Analog to MJPEG Compression for Video Sensor Nodes

TD-dAJC: A 100 MS/s 2 pJ/Pixel Time-Domain Weight and Integrating-MAC-Based Direct Analog to MJPEG Compression for Video Sensor Nodes 150 150
Author(s): Harshit Naman, Gourab Barik, Yudhajit Ray, Shreyas Sen

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Always-on, high-quality video sensors are increasingly required in wearables, surveillance, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, where stringent energy constraints make efficient in-sensor compression necessary. These systems must support high-definition (HD) and 4 K video, yet conventional digital video compression pipelines consume significant power because high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) must digitize every pixel, …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 16
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3712196
Publisher: IEEE

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A 12-bit 1-GS/s SAR-Assisted Pipeline ADC With Gain-Stable Dual-Path Residue Amplification and Partially Look-Ahead Parallel Conversion

A 12-bit 1-GS/s SAR-Assisted Pipeline ADC With Gain-Stable Dual-Path Residue Amplification and Partially Look-Ahead Parallel Conversion 150 150
Author(s): Peng Wang, Yaning Wang, Fule Li, Zhihua Wang

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This article presents a 12-bit, 1-GS/s SAR-assisted pipelined ADC implemented in 28-nm CMOS featuring accurate residue amplification (RA) with low gain variation. A dual-path residue amplifier embeds an open-loop gain-error-cancellation path within the closed-loop amplification path, providing accurate gain and robust gain stability without additional timing or power overhead. …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 14
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3713446
Publisher: IEEE

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A Low-Spur Fractional-N DPLL With Analog Pre-Distortion DTC Implementing Second-/Third-Order Calibration

A Low-Spur Fractional-N DPLL With Analog Pre-Distortion DTC Implementing Second-/Third-Order Calibration 150 150
Author(s): Daxu Zhang, Yuncheng Zhang, Dingxin Xu, Hongye Huang, Waleed Madany, Zezheng Liu, Wenqian Wang, Yuang Xiong, Ashbir Aviat Fadila, Duo Li, Minzhe Tang, Dongfan Xu, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada

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This article presents a low-spur, low-jitter fractional-N digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) employing an analog pre-distortion digital-to-time converter (APD-DTC) to suppress fractional spurs by compensating for both second- and third-order nonlinearities without using complex digital pre-distortion. To support background calibration, a spur-level detection scheme using phase detector gain (PDG) is proposed …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 17
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3706350
Publisher: IEEE

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ASAP: A 28-nm Transformer Training Accelerator With Alternating Sparsity and Asymmetrical Microscaling Precision

ASAP: A 28-nm Transformer Training Accelerator With Alternating Sparsity and Asymmetrical Microscaling Precision 150 150
Author(s): HanGyeol Mun, Jian Meng, Xiaofeng Hu, Yuan Liao, Chun-Ting Chen, Jae-sun Seo

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This work presents ASAP, a 28-nm transformer-training accelerator that combines N:M structured sparsity with asymmetric microscaling floating-point (MXFP) precision through a unified algorithm–hardware co-design. ASAP introduces a progressive sparsity schedule in which pruned compute resources are reassigned to increase numerical precision for important weights and activations, stabilizing optimization …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 14
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3693653
Publisher: IEEE

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A 28-nm PVT Inner-Tracking Time-Domain Compute-In-Memory Macro for Edge-AI Devices

A 28-nm PVT Inner-Tracking Time-Domain Compute-In-Memory Macro for Edge-AI Devices 150 150
Author(s): Yuanzhe Zhao, Yuheng Wang, Heng Xie, Zijian Wang, Rui P. Martins, Chi-Hang Chan, Minglei Zhang

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This article presents an energy-efficient and process-, voltage-, and temperature (PVT)-robust time-domain (TD) compute-in-memory (CIM) macro for edge artificial intelligence (AI) devices. It features: 1) a PVT inner-tracking (PIT) technique that aligns the PVT responses of TD computation and TD quantization, delivering inherent robustness without incurring extra power or circuit …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3691189
Publisher: IEEE

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A 11.0-TOPS/W Diffusion Accelerator With Temporal Data Reuse for Real-Time Text-to-Motion Generation

A 11.0-TOPS/W Diffusion Accelerator With Temporal Data Reuse for Real-Time Text-to-Motion Generation 150 150
Author(s): Sungwoong Yune, Jieon Yoon, Hangyeol Lee, Adiwena Putra, Jaehoon Heo, Joo-Young Kim

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Text-to-motion models are AI systems that generate human motion sequences directly from natural language descriptions, serving as key enablers for immersive virtual avatars and interactive digital humans in AR/VR ecosystems. However, state-of-the-art text-to-motion diffusion models suffer from substantial computational costs due to their iterative nature, making them ill-suited for …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3689546
Publisher: IEEE

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