Time Moore: Exploiting Moore's Law from the perspective of time

L **u - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Moore's law has served as a goal for the semiconductor industry for more than 50 years.
After decades of relentlessly racing forward, convincing new evidence now shows that the …

A 7.6 mW, 414 fs RMS-jitter 10 GHz phase-locked loop for a 40 Gb/s serial link transmitter based on a two-stage ring oscillator in 65 nm CMOS

W Bae, H Ju, K Park, SY Cho… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design of a 10 GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) for a 40 Gb/s serial
link transmitter (TX). A two-stage ring oscillator is used to provide a four-phase, 10 GHz clock …

A perspective of using frequency-mixing as entropy in random number generation for portable hardware cybersecurity IP

X Wei, L **u, Y Cai - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
True random number generator (TRNG) is a crucial component in security. In typical TRNGs,
entropy comes directly from device noises. In this work, an improved method of using …

Clock technology: The next frontier

L **u - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clocking of electrical circuit is a crucial issue since clock signal is used to establish the flow-
of-time inside electronic world. Before, during and after the" Moore's law", flow-of-time is an …

A VLSI digital circuit platform for performing deterministic stochastic computing in the time dimension using fraction operations on rational numbers

X Wei, L **u - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic computing (SC) is a method of expressing values in streams of random bits and
performing computation with bitwise operations on the streams. Recently, it was found that …

A reconfigurable TAF-DPS frequency synthesizer on FPGA achieving 2 ppb frequency granularity and two-cycle switching speed

L **u, PL Chen - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequency synthesizer is a key component used in electronic systems. Two important
features for judging its performance are frequency granularity and frequency switching …

A Full Digital Fractional- TAF-FLL for Digital Applications: Demonstration of the Principle of a Frequency-Locked Loop Built on Time-Average-Frequency

L **u, X Wei, Y Ma - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-average-frequency (TAF) is a novel concept proposed in 2008 for constructing clock
signal. TAF direct period synthesis (TAF-DPS) is an emerging frequency synthesis technique …

Using All-Digital On-Chip Syntonistor to Compensate Clock Frequency Error in Network Time Synchronization for Accuracy Reaching to Sub-µs Range

Y Li, L **u, X Wei, S Lin, C Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of Internet of Everything has made time awareness a feature of high priority.
One of the enabling factors is time synchronization. High-quality synchronization demands …

From Space-Central to Space-Time Balanced: A Perspective for Moore's Law 2.0 and a Holistic Paradigm for Emergence [Perspectives]

L **u - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The history of electronics is studied from physical and evolutionary viewpoints, identifying a
crisis of “space overexploitation.” This space-central practice is signified by Moore's Law, the …

A method of low-cost pure-digital GPS disciplined clock for improving frequency accuracy and steering frequency through TAF-DPS frequency synthesizer

C Li, S Lin, Y Li, H Zhang, X Wei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the key characteristics of modern devices is time-awareness, which demands
frequency source of good accuracy, precision, and stability. Unfortunately, all high-quality …