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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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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
Author(s): Minkyung Kim, Hyeongseok Seo, Songhyeon Kim, Jung-Hoon Chun, Seong-Jin Kim, Jaehyuk Choi

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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. …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 15
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3687569
Publisher: IEEE

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A 77-dB DR Two-Stage SAR ADC for Low-Gain Analog Front-Ends Using Asynchronous Pipelining and RC Snubber Reference Stabilization

A 77-dB DR Two-Stage SAR ADC for Low-Gain Analog Front-Ends Using Asynchronous Pipelining and RC Snubber Reference Stabilization 150 150
Author(s): Jun Feng, Rares Bodnar, Roberto Maurino, Marcel J. M. Pelgrom, Filip Tavernier

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The analog front-end (AFE) often bottlenecks the power of modern receiver chains, burdened by the large-signal linearity required before the ADC. This work introduces a 77-dB DR, 200-MS/s two-stage SAR ADC that can alleviate much of this burden by offering a significantly lower input-referred noise (IRN) to enable low-gain …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 11
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3686660
Publisher: IEEE

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P-dits for the Frequency Assignment Problem with Transmitter Deactivation in Dense Environments

P-dits for the Frequency Assignment Problem with Transmitter Deactivation in Dense Environments 150 150
Author(s): Christian Duffee, Jordan Athas, Igor Kadota, Randall Berry, Pedram Khalili Amiri

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The frequency assignment problem is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard optimization problem concerning the assignment of frequency channels to wireless transmitters. Typically, the aim is to minimize interference between transmitters while maintaining a high level of service. In this work, the use of probabilistic d-dimensional bits, or p-dits, for this task …

Published in: IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 1
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2329-9231
DOI: 10.1109/JXCDC.2026.3690563
Publisher: IEEE

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A 1.1-nJ/Conversion RC-Discharge-Based Resistance Sensor With ±0.65% (3σ) 1 -Point Trimmed Inaccuracy in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology

A 1.1-nJ/Conversion RC-Discharge-Based Resistance Sensor With ±0.65% (3σ) 1 -Point Trimmed Inaccuracy in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology 150 150
Author(s): Mu Wu, Yihang Cheng, Xingli Cui, Sining Pan, Huaqiang Wu

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This letter presents an energy-efficient RC discharge-based sensor readout circuit for sub-kilo-ohm resistance measurements. An SAR logic is implemented to adjust the DAC capacitor array to equalize the RC time constants of the resistance-sensing and DAC branches, thereby eliminating the high static current required to bias the small sensing resistor. …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 109 – 112
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2026.3677301
Publisher: IEEE

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A 7-Level 18-Wire-State Trio-Signaling Transmitter for MIPI C-PHY 3.0 Interfaces

A 7-Level 18-Wire-State Trio-Signaling Transmitter for MIPI C-PHY 3.0 Interfaces 150 150
Author(s): Junyeong Lee, Myeongjin Oh, Kiwoon Kim, Jung-Hoon Chun

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This letter presents a MIPI C-PHY v3.0 TX, which adopts trio-signaling using three wires per lane. Each line supports seven-level signaling, enabling 18 wire states to map 32-bit data into nine symbols, achieving 3.56 bits/symbol efficiency. Balanced coding maintains constant driver current, enhancing SSO noise immunity, and embedded clocking is achieved …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 101 – 104
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2026.3672642
Publisher: IEEE

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A Low-Reference-Spur Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier Using Sub-Sampling Frequency Tracking Loop and Injection Pulse Timing Calibrator

A Low-Reference-Spur Injection-Locked Clock Multiplier Using Sub-Sampling Frequency Tracking Loop and Injection Pulse Timing Calibrator 150 150
Author(s): Hyeonjun Nam, Hyogyoung An, Changmin An, Sungjin Kim, Heein Yoon

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This article presents an injection-locked clock multiplier (ILCM) achieving the low-reference spur (spur ${}_{\mathrm {REF}}$ ) with minimal overhead of a calibrator. To remove the dominant sources of frequency error, which are frequency drift ( $f_{\mathrm {DF}}$ ), phase offset ( $\varPhi _{\mathrm {OS}}$ ), and injection-induced phase error ( $\varPhi _{\mathrm {INJ}}$ ), the ILCM …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 11
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3650135
Publisher: IEEE

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A 65-nm CMOS Machine-Learning-Enhanced Bandwidth-Efficient LiDAR

A 65-nm CMOS Machine-Learning-Enhanced Bandwidth-Efficient LiDAR 150 150
Author(s): Pooya Poolad, Foad Arvani, Bahaa Radi, Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, Tony Chan Carusone

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We present a proof-of-concept light detection and ranging (LiDAR) signal processing architecture that integrates a machine-learning-enhanced processing unit (PU) with on-chip time-to-digital converters (TDCs) to reduce bandwidth and memory requirements in SPAD-based direct time-of-flight (dToF) systems. The proposed architecture fits a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to photon arrival time distributions …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 11
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3652972
Publisher: IEEE

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