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What you see before you this year, is the result of many years of continuous iterative refinement of the submission process and information processing. This year, we continue to provide a simplified printed Digest, in which the continuation pages (typically including a micrograph and occasionally summary data) are not included, but are available in the Digest download and in IEEE Xplore. To continue...
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 63rd International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The Conference continues its outstanding tradition of showcasing the most advanced and innovative work from industry and academe around the world, in the area of integrated circuits and systems. This year, the geographical distribution of the accepted technical papers reflects the truly international character...
The Plenary Session begins with welcome remarks and an introduction from the Conference Chair, Anantha Chandrakasan. Then Kevin Zhang, the Technical Program Chair, will give a brief summary of the 2016 Technical Program. The Plenary Session features four keynote speakers, leaders in their respective fields and collectively represent a broad spectrum of our industry. An Awards Ceremony which recognizes...
Semiconductors continue to be the foundation for computing and communications solutions, the basis of the Internet of Everthing, and the primary driver in the future of electronics applications. Moore's Law has led to evermore-powerful smart phones, tablets, personal computers, and data centers. It has enabled computing to become a seamless and powerful force in our homes, offices, cars, factories,...
The Internet of Everything is about to become ubiquitous, it will indeed be “all around us and reside into the background of our lives” as predicted over three decades ago. Three technologies will make the IoE possible: smart everyday objects, information-centric networks, and automated real-time insights. This paper highlighted the central role of electronics in each of these three pillars: (1) smart...
Recently, LTE has become the mainstream of mobile technologies, and global expectations for 5G toward 2020 and beyond are rapidly growing. It is expected that 5G will cover a wide variety of use cases and a wide range of frequency bands. Today, some promising technologies are emerging, especially those using new technology combinations. Through such combinations, things which were considered impossible...
Large-scale proliferation of self-driving fully-connected cars will only materialize if they are secure and reliable. Automotive quality and security are essential to ensure consumer confidence in these new technologies. Key functions needed to enable autonomous driving like V2X, car radar, and Ethernet become already available today but will continue to evolve in performance as well as integration...
Frequency generation and synthesis circuits are ubiquitous building blocks in communication, sensing, and imaging systems. This session covers the latest advances in frequency synthesizers and VCOs in GHz and THz frequency ranges. The session begins with a CMOS frequency synthesizer operating above 0.5THz and a 28GHz coupled PLL for mm-Wave 5G applications. The session also presents two GHz-range...
Spectra from 0.5 to 0.6THz play critical roles in planetary science, astrophysics and radio-astronomy as various chemical species including water, nitrates (NO2, N2O, NH3) and organics (CH4 and HCN) can either absorb or reflect radiation in this frequency regime. Accordingly, NASA and ESA have developed a wide range of spectroscopic sounding instruments to investigate our solar system. Current LO...
Demonstrations of mm-Wave arrays with >50 elements in silicon has led to an interest in large-scale mm-Wave MIMO arrays for 5G networks, which promise substantial improvements in network capacity [1,2]. Practical considerations result in such arrays being developed with a tiled approach, where N unit cells with M elements each are tiled to achieve large MIMO/phased arrays with NM elements [2]....
Ring-VCO-based PLLs are popular because of their compact chip area and wide tuning range compared with LC-VCO-based PLLs. However, they typically have higher jitter and larger frequency drift due to high sensitivity to PVT variations. Several PLL architectures were proposed to reject the phase noise and reduce the frequency drift [1,2]. However, due to an architecture-level limitation, these phase-noise-rejection...
The flourishing of ubiquitous wireless communication networks has pushed the development and deployment of complex RF telecom systems. Concurrently, the IC industry has been making an effort to increase the integration of RF devices. While nanometer CMOS technologies are now dominating end-user devices, the RF domain of wireless infrastructure still suffers from low-scale of integration [1]. Nonetheless,...
An LC oscillator can achieve near optimal performance if the common-mode of the circuit is designed to resonate at twice the oscillation frequency [1–3]. Common-mode resonance can be accomplished with an explicit tail inductor [1] or implicitly by designing the primary resonant tank such that the differential mode is half the common-mode [2,3]. Figures 2.5.1a and 2.5.1b show the NMOS-only and complementary...
Wideband mm-Wave and terahertz (THz) applications, including high data-rate communications, high-resolution radar and spectroscopy, require wideband signal sources. Nevertheless, low quality factor of varactors and lossy switches in addition to relatively large parasitic capacitors of transistors have been limiting the tuning range of voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) at these frequencies. To overcome...
Ring-VCOs (RVCOs) [1] have been avoided for over a decade for high-performance RF systems due to their much lower FOM (<165dB [2]) than that of their LC counterparts from low to high frequency offsets. Yet, as the cost of ultra-scaled CMOS technologies is escalating, the small-die-area and wide-tuning-range advantages of RVCOs have attracted more attention recently, aiming to break the FOM limit...
Injection-locked oscillators (ILOs) are widely used to realize low-noise carrier sources, particularly at mm-Waves by leveraging harmonic injection, but only within a narrow locking range (ΔfL) [1]. Substantial effort has been made to improve ΔfL by increasing the injection current through multiport injections in open-loop architectures at the expense of a fair amount of extra power dissipation (Pdiss)...
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