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ISCAS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Low Power 4-bit Interleaved Burst Sampling ADC for Sub-GHz Impulse UWB Radio
Abstract—This paper presents a low power 4-bit ADC for subGHz Ultra Wideband (UWB) receivers. The power efficiency is achieved by taking advantage of the low duty cycle feature o...
Xiaodong Zhang, Magdy Bayoumi
ISLPED
2006
ACM
70views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Sub-threshold design: the challenges of minimizing circuit energy
In this paper, we identify the key challenges that oppose subthreshold circuit design and describe fabricated chips that verify techniques for overcoming the challenges. Categorie...
Benton H. Calhoun, Alice Wang, Naveen Verma, Anant...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
128views Hardware» more  ISQED 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
A novel all-digital fractional-N frequency synthesizer architecture with fast acquisition and low spur
Digital implementation of analog function is becoming attractive in CMOS ICs, given the low supply voltage of ultra-scaled process. The conventional fractional-N frequency synthes...
Jun Zhao, Yong-Bin Kim
ICCD
2007
IEEE
157views Hardware» more  ICCD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Limits on voltage scaling for caches utilizing fault tolerant techniques
This paper proposes a new low power cache architecture that utilizes fault tolerance to allow aggressively reduced voltage levels. The fault tolerant overhead circuits consume lit...
Mohammad A. Makhzan, Amin Khajeh Djahromi, Ahmed M...
ICCAD
1995
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Activity-driven clock design for low power circuits
In this paper we investigate activity-driven clock trees to reduce the dynamic power consumption of synchronous digital CMOS circuits. Sections of an activity-driven clock tree ca...
Gustavo E. Téllez, Amir H. Farrahi, Majid S...