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 …

Near-threshold voltage (NTV) design: Opportunities and challenges

H Kaul, M Anders, S Hsu, A Agarwal… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Moore's Law will continue providing abundance of transistors for integration, only to be
limited by the energy consumption. Near threshold voltage (NTV) operation has potential to …

Near-threshold computing: Reclaiming moore's law through energy efficient integrated circuits

RG Dreslinski, M Wieckowski, D Blaauw… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power has become the primary design constraint for chip designers today. While Moore's
law continues to provide additional transistors, power budgets have begun to prohibit those …

A portable 2-transistor picowatt temperature-compensated voltage reference operating at 0.5 V

M Seok, G Kim, D Blaauw… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensing systems such as biomedical implants, infrastructure monitoring systems, and
military surveillance units are constrained to consume only picowatts to nanowatts in …

Millimeter-scale nearly perpetual sensor system with stacked battery and solar cells

G Chen, M Fojtik, D Kim, D Fick, J Park… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An 8.75 mm 3 sensor system is implemented with a near-threshold ARM Cortex-M3 core,
custom 3.3 fW leakage-per-bit SRAM, two 1 mm 2 solar cells, a thin-film Li-ion battery, and …

Frequency self-tuning scheme for broadband vibration energy harvesting

M Lallart, SR Anton, DJ Inman - Journal of Intelligent …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The recent proliferation of microscale devices has raised the issue of energy harvesting for
replacing batteries that present maintenance and recycling problems. Particularly …

A low-voltage processor for sensing applications with picowatt standby mode

S Hanson, M Seok, YS Lin, ZY Foo… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent progress in ultra-low-power circuit design is creating new opportunities for cubic
millimeter computing. Robust low-voltage operation has reduced active mode power …

Microwatt embedded processor platform for medical system-on-chip applications

SR Sridhara, M DiRenzo, S Lingam… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Battery life specifications drive the power consumption requirements of integrated circuits in
implantable, wearable, and portable medical devices. In this paper, we present an …

Vertically grown multiwalled carbon nanotube anode and nickel silicide integrated high performance microsized (1.25 μL) microbial fuel cell

JE Mink, JP Rojas, BE Logan, MM Hussain - Nano Letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are an environmentally friendly method for water purification and
self-sustained electricity generation using microorganisms. Microsized MFCs can also be a …

Variation-tolerant, ultra-low-voltage microprocessor with a low-overhead, within-a-cycle in-situ timing-error detection and correction technique

S Kim, M Seok - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a design approach for upgrading the resiliency of ultra-low-voltage
(ULV) microprocessors through a voltage-scalable and low-overhead in-situ error detection …