Ultra-low power VLSI circuit design demystified and explained: A tutorial

M Alioto - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the state of the art in ultra-low power (ULP) VLSI design is presented within a
unitary framework for the first time. A few general principles are first introduced to gain an …

Securing commercial WiFi-based UAVs from common security attacks

M Hooper, Y Tian, R Zhou, B Cao… - MILCOM 2016-2016 …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We posit that commercial Wi-Fi-based unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are vulnerable to
common and basic security attacks, capable by beginner to intermediate hackers. We do this …

Device and Circuit Design Challenges in the Digital Subthreshold Region for Ultralow‐Power Applications

R Vaddi, S Dasgupta, RP Agarwal - VLSI Design, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, subthreshold operation has gained a lot of attention due to ultra low‐power
consumption in applications requiring low to medium performance. It has also been shown …

Utilizing reverse short channel effect for optimal subthreshold circuit design

TH Kim, H Eom, J Keane, C Kim - … on Low power electronics and design, 2006‏ - dl.acm.org
The impact of the Reverse Short Channel Effect (RSCE) on device current is stronger in the
subthreshold region due to the reduced Drain-Induced-Barrier-Lowering (DIBL) and the …

An ultra-low-energy multi-standard JPEG co-processor in 65 nm CMOS with sub/near threshold supply voltage

Y Pu, JP De Gyvez, H Corporaal… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a design technique for (near) subthreshold operation that achieves ultra low
energy dissipation at throughputs of up to 100 MB/s suitable for digital consumer electronic …

A 40 nm dual-width standard cell library for near/sub-threshold operation

J Zhou, S Jayapal, B Busze, L Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Near/sub-threshold operation is promising to achieve energy minimization when high
performance is not required. The device sizing in sub-threshold region is different from super …

Low voltage dual mode logic: Model analysis and parameter extraction

I Levi, A Kaizerman, A Fish - Microelectronics journal, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The Dual Model Logic (DML) family, which was recently introduced by our group for sub-
threshold operation, provides an alternative design methodology to the existing low power …

Logical effort for CMOS-based dual mode logic gates

I Levi, A Belenky, A Fish - … on very large scale integration (VLSI) …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a novel dual mode logic (DML) family was proposed. This logic allows operation in
two modes: 1) static and 2) dynamic modes. DML gates, which can be switched between …

Twenty years of near/sub-threshold design trends and enablement

K Singh, JP de Gyvez - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief surveys the past 20 years of near/sub-threshold digital integrated circuit design.
Most of the chips have been highly characterized for voltage scaling down to near/sub …

A novel framework to estimate the path delay variability on the back of an envelope via the fan-out-of-4 metric

M Alioto, G Scotti, A Trifiletti - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel framework is introduced to estimate the max-delay variability in logic
paths due to variations in a back-of-the-envelope fashion, thus allowing quick evaluation of …