280G S12
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This quarter, we are going to focus on sub-threshold circuits. Participants: Jeff, Raj, Sheldon, Ben, Matt
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 04/18/12 | Matt | Sub-threshold CMOS/Device Overview |
| 04/25/12 | Sheldon | Variation-driven device sizing for minimum energy sub-threshold circuits,
Device Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits |
| 04/30/12 | Seokjoong | Dry Run |
| 05/02/12 | NONE (Matt at GLSVLSI) | |
| 05/09/12 | ||
| 05/16/12 | Jeff | Variability of flip-flop timing at sub-threshold voltages
Robust Ultra-Low Power Subthreshold Logic Flip-Flop Design for Reconfigurable Architectures |
| 05/23/12 | ||
| 05/30/12 | ||
| 06/06/12 | DAC | |
| 06/13/12 | Maybe? |
Here are some possible papers to cover:
Theory/General:
- Theoretical and practical limits of dynamic voltage scaling http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=996798
- Variation-driven device sizing for minimum energy sub-threshold circuits http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1165578
- Optimal Supply and Threshold Voltage Scaling for Sub-threshold CMOS Circuits by Alice Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan, Stephen Kosonocky
- A Variation Tolerant Sub-threshold Design Approach by Nikhil Jayakumar and Sunil Khatri
- Technology Flavor Selection and Adaptive Techniques for Timing Constrined 45nm Sub-threshold Circuits by David Bol and others
- A 180mv Subthreshold FFT processor using a Minimum Energy Design Methodology by Alice Wang and Anantha Chandrakasan
- Digital Computation in Subthreshold Region for Ultra Low Power Operation by Sumeet Kumar Gupta and others
- Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling by Anantha Chandrakasan and others
- Flexible Circuits and Architectures for Ultra Low Power by Benton Calhoun and others
- Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS by Benton Calhoun and others
- Energy Efficient Near-Threshold Chip Multi-Processing by Bo Zhai and others
- Sub-threshold Design: The challenges of minimizing circuit energy by Benton Calhoun and others
- Design Considerations for Ultra Low Energy Wireless Microsensor Nodes by benton Calhoun and others
- Supply and Threshold Voltage Scaling for Low Power CMOS by Ricardo Gonzalez and others
- Nanometer Device Scaling in Subthreshold Logic and SRAM by Scott Hanson and others
- Robust Ultra-Low Power Subthreshold Logic Flip-Flop Design for Reconfigurable Architectures by Ameet Chavan and others
- Radiation hardened Flip-Flop design for super and sub threshold voltage operation
Memories:
- Static noise margin variation for sub-threshold SRAM in 65-nm CMOS http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1644879
- A 256kb Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS http://people.virginia.edu/~bhc2b/papers/Calhoun_ISSCC06.pdf
- A Sub-200mV 6T SRAM in 0.13μm CMOS http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4242400
FPGAs:
- A Sub-Threshold FPGA with Low-Swing DualVDD Interconnect in 90nm CMOS http://rlpvlsi.ece.virginia.edu/sites/default/files/Ryan_CICC2010.pdf
Optimization:
- Modeling and Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits by Benton Calhoun and others
- Device Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits by Benton Calhoun and others
Variability/Modeling:
- Variability of Flip-Flop Timing at Sub-Threshold Voltages" by Niklas Lotze, Maurits Ortmanns, and Yiannos Manoli
- Exploring Variability and Performance in a Sub-200mv Processor by Scott Hanson and others
