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GUARD: A Clock and Voltage Glitch Detector With On-Demand Protection

GUARD: A Clock and Voltage Glitch Detector With On-Demand Protection 150 150

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This article presents GUARD, a fully digital, variation-tolerant detector for clock and voltage glitch attacks, featuring an integrated on-demand protection mechanism. Fabricated in 28-nm CMOS, GUARD provides robust security for digital systems by monitoring the system clock for maliciously injected faults. It employs a pair of optimized time-to-digital converters (TDCs) …

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TexCAC: A Direct-Textile-Attachable Microcontroller Integrating 2-MB MRAM for the Command and Control of Advanced Smart Textiles

TexCAC: A Direct-Textile-Attachable Microcontroller Integrating 2-MB MRAM for the Command and Control of Advanced Smart Textiles 150 150

Abstract:

Advanced smart textiles (ASTs) are textile-integrated electronic systems that enable many applications, including healthcare, robotics, and IoT. ASTs contain a variety of electronic components to enable whole system functionality (batteries, sensors, SoCs, etc.), which all require orchestration from a central command-and-control (CAC) module. The primary functions of the CAC module …

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A Third-Harmonic-Enhanced Triple-Push DCO Utilizing Source-Combining Technique

A Third-Harmonic-Enhanced Triple-Push DCO Utilizing Source-Combining Technique 150 150

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This article presents a detailed investigation into optimizing the amplitude and phase of the transistor’s terminal voltages to generate a high 3rd-harmonic current in the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequency. Based on the analysis, the digitally controlled source-combining triple-push (SCTP) oscillator is derived to significantly enhance the 3rd-harmonic current by introducing …

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A 15-MHz, 2.7-mm2 Notch-Free Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With Feedforward Ripple Cancellation and ±0.8% Local Gain Non-Uniformity

A 15-MHz, 2.7-mm2 Notch-Free Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With Feedforward Ripple Cancellation and ±0.8% Local Gain Non-Uniformity 150 150

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This article proposes a hybrid magnetic current sensor achieving a 15-MHz bandwidth within a compact 2.7-mm2 area. To mitigate the pole–zero mismatch inherent in the two-stage integrator topology, a dual-output Gm-C integrator with subtractor-based compensation is proposed, achieving a ±0.8% local gain non-uniformity. A wideband feedforward ripple suppression scheme cancels …

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A High-Linearity Shunt-Based In-Line Current Sensor With Self-Heating Compensation and 14.4 V 2 MHz PWM Rejection

A High-Linearity Shunt-Based In-Line Current Sensor With Self-Heating Compensation and 14.4 V 2 MHz PWM Rejection 150 150

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This article presents a cost-effective, fully integrated shunt-resistor-based in-line current sensor that delivers high linearity and strong PWM rejection, enabling precise current measurement and control in dynamic driving systems like robotics, imaging, and audio. To mitigate the self-heating of the on-chip shunt resistor, which degrades linearity, a location-based thermal compensation …

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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

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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 …

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A BEV Perception Transformer Accelerator With Saliency-Driven Image/Point Cloud Fusion and Phase-Linked Dataflow in 28 nm CMOS

A BEV Perception Transformer Accelerator With Saliency-Driven Image/Point Cloud Fusion and Phase-Linked Dataflow in 28 nm CMOS 150 150

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Deploying advanced Transformer-based models for real-time, high-accuracy multimodal bird’s-eye-view (BEV) perception in autonomous driving imposes substantial hardware demands. To address this, we propose a low-cost, low-power image/point-cloud fusion Transformer accelerator that supports two modes: high-performance driving and ultra-low-power sentry operation. We first propose a cross-modal saliency evaluation mechanism …

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A 60-GHz Class- F2,3 Standing-Wave Oscillator Employing Triple-Line Resonator Achieving −189-dBc/Hz FoM in 65-nm CMOS

A 60-GHz Class- F2,3 Standing-Wave Oscillator Employing Triple-Line Resonator Achieving −189-dBc/Hz FoM in 65-nm CMOS 150 150

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Implementing oscillators with harmonic engineering beyond 60-GHz poses significant challenges due to the need for small inductors resonating beyond 120 GHz. To address this issue, this work presents a 60-GHz standing-wave oscillator (SWO) with both second- and third-harmonic boosting for phase noise reduction. A triple-line resonator is proposed to sustain both …

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QVGA CMOS LiDAR Sensor With nMOS-Only SPAD Analog Front-End and Area-Efficient Priority Histogramming TDC

QVGA CMOS LiDAR Sensor With nMOS-Only SPAD Analog Front-End and Area-Efficient Priority Histogramming TDC 150 150

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This article presents a high-resolution (HR) CMOS light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor capable of generating quarter video graphics array (QVGA) ( $320~{\times }~240$ ) depth images. To support high pixel density, the sensor employs a compact 6-transistor (6-T) nMOS-only single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) analog front-end (AFE) with a column-shared active recharge circuit. …

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