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SMoLPU: An Energy-Efficient Sparse Mixture-of-Experts-Based Speculative Decoding Language Processing Unit

SMoLPU: An Energy-Efficient Sparse Mixture-of-Experts-Based Speculative Decoding Language Processing Unit 150 150
Author(s): Sangwoo Ha, Jingu Lee, Youngjin Moon, Sunjoo Whang, Wooyoung Jo, Gwangtae Park, Sangjin Kim, Soyeon Um, Junha Ryu, Yurim Jo, Hoi-Jun Yoo

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Reasoning strategies such as chain-of-thought improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) but lengthen decoding sequences, inflating external memory access (EMA) on mobile devices. Numerous optimizations have been explored to reduce EMA, from conventional techniques such as group quantization and channel-wise pruning to sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) and speculative decoding (…

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3726852
Publisher: IEEE

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A Real-Time Link-Adaptive 3-D Resonant Current-Mode Wireless Receiver With Self-Optimizing Control

A Real-Time Link-Adaptive 3-D Resonant Current-Mode Wireless Receiver With Self-Optimizing Control 150 150
Author(s): Jong-Hun Kim, Seung-Ju Lee, Seogyong Jeong, Yeon-Woo Jeong, Mun-Jung Cho, Hyuntak Jeon, Se-Un Shin

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This article presents a 3-D resonant current-mode wireless power receiver (RCM 3D-Rx) with autonomous optimum resonance cycle ( $N_{\mathrm {OPT}}$ ) detection and real-time link adaptivity for implantable medical devices (IMDs). The proposed design integrates three orthogonally oriented receiver coils within a com pact 3-D-printed PA12 structure, enabling orientation-insensitive power transfer …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 3407 – 3419
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3637095
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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A 27.5–28.5 mJ/Frame 3-D Gaussian Rendering Processor With Spherical Beta Illumination and Mixed-Precision Computation Path

A 27.5–28.5 mJ/Frame 3-D Gaussian Rendering Processor With Spherical Beta Illumination and Mixed-Precision Computation Path 150 150
Author(s): Cheng Nian, Xiaorui Mo, Jiaqi Zhang, Fasih Ud Din Farrukh, Jiaying Peng, Fei Chen, Chun Zhang

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This letter presents a 3-D Gaussian rendering processor that integrates a spherical beta (SB) illumination module with a mixed-precision rendering engine to enable energy-efficient novel-view synthesis on edge devices. SB replaces spherical harmonics (SH) with a hardware-efficient kernel implemented using a pipelined fixed-point piecewise linear (PWL) power unit. The pipeline …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 113 – 116
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2026.3676726
Publisher: IEEE

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A Low Jitter and Low Spur Fractional-N Digital PLL Based on a DTC Chopping Technique

A Low Jitter and Low Spur Fractional-N Digital PLL Based on a DTC Chopping Technique 150 150
Author(s): Riccardo Moleri, Simone M. Dartizio, Michele Rossoni, Giacomo Castoro, Francesco Tesolin, Dmytro Cherniak, Carlo Samori, Andrea L. Lacaita, Salvatore Levantino

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This work presents a digital-to-time converter (DTC)-based fractional-N digital phase-locked loop (PLL) designed to achieve simultaneously low jitter and low spurs. We introduce a novel DTC chopping technique that effectively mitigates fractional spurs, which we identify as predominantly arising from even-order nonlinearity invariable-slope (VS) DTCs. The proposed technique suppresses …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 17
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3663074
Publisher: IEEE

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An Electrophysiology-Optogenetics Closed-Loop Bi-Directional Neural Interface for Sleep Regulation With 0.2-μJ/class Multiplexer-Based Neural Network

An Electrophysiology-Optogenetics Closed-Loop Bi-Directional Neural Interface for Sleep Regulation With 0.2-μJ/class Multiplexer-Based Neural Network 150 150
Author(s): Chao Zhang, Fenyan Zhang, Dawid Sheng, Zhixiong Ma, Yongxiang Guo, Chao Sun, Yuwei Zhang, Wenxin Zhao, Xing Sheng, Tongfei A. Wang, Milin Zhang

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This work proposed a multiplexer-based neural network (MUXnet), a multiplexer-based, multiplier-free neural network (NN) structure applicable to the implementation of all inner product-based NN layers. An on-chip MUXnet-based neural signal processing unit (NSPU) was designed, achieving a state-of-the-art accuracy of 82.4% on a public human sleep staging dataset, with the lowest …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3639446
Publisher: IEEE

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A 500 MS/s Robust 2b/cycle Pipelined-SAR ADC Achieving 64.6-dB SNDR and 82.6-dB SFDR With Linearity Enhancement Techniques

A 500 MS/s Robust 2b/cycle Pipelined-SAR ADC Achieving 64.6-dB SNDR and 82.6-dB SFDR With Linearity Enhancement Techniques 150 150
Author(s): Qiang Yu, Zheng Zhu, Lulu Zhang, Qin Huang, Yao Feng, Chao Liang, Biao Hu, Ling Du, Rongbin Yang, Shuangyi Wu, Qiang Li

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This letter presents a 14-bit 500-MS/s 3-stage pipelined successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). By exploiting robust 2b/cycle SAR ADCs, this ADC incorporates significant voltage and time redundancy. High SFDR is achieved through several linearity enhancement techniques. First, a DAC splitting technique addresses the common-mode voltage matching …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 9 – 12
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2025.3639322
Publisher: IEEE

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A RISC-V SoC With Reconfigurable Custom Instructions on a Synthesized eFPGA Fabric in 22nm FinFET

A RISC-V SoC With Reconfigurable Custom Instructions on a Synthesized eFPGA Fabric in 22nm FinFET 150 150
Author(s): Prashanth Mohan, Siddharth Das, Ken Mai

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This letter presents a flexible and energy-efficient RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC) in 22nm FinFET technology, achieving state-of-the-art performance by tightly integrating the CPU with a synthesized embedded FPGA (embedded field programmable gate array (eFPGA)), enabling the implementation of reconfigurable custom instructions. The tight integration of the eFPGA with SoC scratchpad memory …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 321 – 324
Year of Publication: 2025
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2025.3618942
Publisher: IEEE

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