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 …

Hardware acceleration of EEG-based emotion classification systems: a comprehensive survey

HA Gonzalez, R George, S Muzaffar… - … Circuits and Systems, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in EEG-based wearable classifiers of
emotions, which could enable the real-time monitoring of patients suffering from …

A 62 mV 0.13 m CMOS Standard-Cell-Based Design Technique Using Schmitt-Trigger Logic

N Lotze, Y Manoli - IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supply voltage reduction beyond the minimum energy per operation point is advantageous
for supply voltage constrained applications, but is limited by the degradation of on-to-off …

Fully-integrated on-chip DC-DC converter with a 450X output range

SS Kudva, R Harjani - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a technique to efficiently supply power over a wide power range using a
fully-integrated on-chip converter for dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) based applications. All …

A 9-mm2 Ultra-Low-Power Highly Integrated 28-nm CMOS SoC for Internet of Things

Y Pu, C Shi, G Samson, D Park… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives an overview of the Blackghost 1.0 system-on-chip (SoC) from Qualcomm
Research, which was our first test chip that paved the way toward the commercialization of …

Versatile On‐Chip Programming of Circuit Hardware for Wearable and Implantable Biomedical Microdevices

AH Lee, J Lee, V Leung, A Nurmikko - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable and implantable microscale electronic sensors have been developed for a range
of biomedical applications. The sensors, typically millimeter size silicon microchips, are …

Ultra-sub-threshold operation of always-on digital circuits for IoT applications by use of Schmitt trigger gates

N Lotze, Y Manoli - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supply-voltage reduction in digital circuits beyond the minimum energy per operation point
is advantageous for supply-voltage-constrained applications and can help to considerably …

Fully integrated capacitive DC–DC converter with all-digital ripple mitigation technique

SS Kudva, R Harjani - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an adaptive all-digital ripple mitigation technique for fully integrated
capacitive dc-dc converters. Ripple control is achieved using a two-pronged approach …

An energy efficient jpeg encoder with neural network based approximation and near-threshold computing

Z Wang, S Yin, F Tu, L Liu, S Wei - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
JPEG compression is an important part in low-power multimedia applications. This paper
proposes an approach that leverages the error resilience of JPEG for different energy …

Multi-core architecture design for ultra-low-power wearable health monitoring systems

AY Dogan, J Constantin, M Ruggiero… - … , Automation & Test …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal health monitoring systems can offer a cost-effective solution for human healthcare.
To extend the lifetime of health monitoring systems, we propose a near-threshold ultra-low …