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Conference Paper
P. Long, Huang, J. Z., Povolotskyi, M., Verreck, D., Charles, J., Kubis, T., Klimeck, G., Rodwell, M. J. W., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Tunnel FET Design for High-Current, 120 mV Operation”, in IEDM, 2016.
A. Banerjee and Calhoun, B. H., “An Ultra Low Energy 9T Half-select-free Subthreshold SRAM bitcell”, in S3S, Monterey, CA, 2013.
Y. Shakhsheer, Shrivastava, A., Roberts, N., Craig, K., Wooters, S., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B. H., “Ultra Low Power Circuits and Systems for Self Powered Wireless Sensors”, in GOMACTech, 2015.
A. Wang, Calhoun, B. H., Verma, N., Kwong, J., and Chandrakasan, A., “Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Energy Starved Electronics”, in Proc. of GOMAC Tech, 2007.
B. H. Calhoun and Chandrakasan, A., “Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling Using Sub-threshold Operation and Local Voltage Dithering in 90nm CMOS”, in International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2005, pp. 300-301.
C. J. Lukas, Yahya, F. B., and Calhoun, B. H., “An Ultra-low Power System On Chip Enabling DVS with SR Level Shifting Latches”, in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, 2018.
B. H. Calhoun and Wentzloff, D. D., “Ultra-Low Power Wireless SoCs Enabling a Batteryless IoT”, in HOT Chips, 2015.
H. Qi, Ayorinde, O., and Calhoun, B. H., “An Ultra-Low-Power FPGA for IoT Applications”, in S3S 2017, 2017.
O. Ayorinde, Qi, H., Huang, Y., and Calhoun, B., “Using island-style bi-directional intra-CLB routing in low-power FPGAs”, in 25th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2015.
S. Nalam, Bhargava, M., Mai, K., and Calhoun, B. H., “Virtual Prototyper (ViPro): An Early Design Space Exploration and Optimization Tool for SRAM Designers”, in Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2010, pp. 138-143.
J. Boley, Beshay, P., and Calhoun, B., “Virtual Prototyping (ViPro) Tool for Memory Subsystem Design Exploration and Optimization”, in SRC TECHCON, 2013.
Conference Proceedings
B. H. Meyer, Calhoun, B. H., Lach, J. C., and Skadron, K., “Cost-effective Safety and Fault Localization using Distributed Temporal Redundancy”, CASES. 2011.
Y. Shakhsheer, Zhang, Y., Otis, B., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Custom Processor for Node and Power Management of a Battery-less Body Sensor Node in 130nm CMOS”, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. San Jose, 2012.
O. Ayorinde, Qi, H., and Calhoun, B. H., “FGC: A Tool-flow for Generating and Configuring Custom FPGAs”, Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. ACM, Monterey, CA, 2018.
T. Ajayi, Cherivirala, Y. K., Kwon, K., Kamineni, S., Saligane, M., Fayazi, M., Gupta, S., Chen, C. - H., Sylvester, D., Blaauw, D., Dreslinski, Jr, R., Calhoun, B. H., and Wentzloff, D. D., “Fully Autonomous Mixed Signal SoC Design & Layout Generation Platform”, IEEE Hot Chips 32 Symposium (HCS). 2020.
A. Banerjee, Kamineni, S., and Calhoun, B. H., “Multiple Combined Write-Read Peripheral Assists in 6T FinFET SRAMs for Low-VMIN IoT and Cognitive Applications”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). IEEE, 2018.
Journal Article
A. D. Kamakshi, Shrivastava, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 0.2 V, 23 nW CMOS Temperature Sensor for Ultra-Low-Power IoT Applications”, J. Low Power Electron. Appl. (JLPEA), vol. 6, 2016.
A. Kosari, Breiholz, J., Liu, N. X., Calhoun, B. H., and Wentzloff, D. D., “A 0.5 V 68 nW ECG Monitoring Analog Front-End for Arrhythmia Diagnosis”, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA), 2018.
D. S. Truesdell, Li, S., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 0.5V 560-kHz 18.8-fJ/Cycle On-Chip Oscillator with 96.1-ppm/°C Steady-State Stability Using a Duty-Cycled Digital Frequency-Locked Loop”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2021.PDF icon A 0.5-V 560-kHz 18.8-fJ_Cycle On-Chip Oscillator With 96.1ppm_C Steady-State Stability Using a Duty-Cycled Digital Frequency-Locked Loop.pdf (2.95 MB)
D. S. Truesdell, Dissanayake, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 0.6-V 44.6-fJ/Cycle Energy-Optimized Frequency-Locked Loop in 65-nm CMOS With 20.3-ppm/°C Stability”, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), 2019.PDF icon A 0.6-V 44.6-fJ Cycle Energy-Optimized Frequency-Locked Loop in 65-nm CMOS With 20.3-ppm C Stability.pdf (1.64 MB)
R. Agarwala, Wang, P., Bishop, H. L., Dissanayake, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 0.6V 785-nW Multimodal Sensor Interface IC for Ozone Pollutant Sensing and Correlated Cardiovascular Disease Monitoring”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2021.
C. J. Lukas, Yahya, F. B., Breiholz, J., Roy, A., Chen, X., Patel, H. N., Liu, N. X., Kosari, A., Li, S., Kamakshi, D. Akella, Ayorinde, O., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 1.02 μW Battery-Less, Continuous Sensing and Post-Processing SiP for Wearable Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2019.PDF icon 08625544.pdf (3.22 MB)
A. Shrivastava, Roberts, N. E., Khan, O. U., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 10mV-Input Boost Converter with Inductor Peak Current Control and Zero Detection for Thermoelectric and Solar Energy Harvesting with 220mV Cold-Start and -14.5dBm, 915MHz RF Kick-Start”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 50, pp. 1820-1832, 2015.
A. Shrivastava, Akella, D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 1.5nW, 32.768kHz XTAL Oscillator Operational from 0.3V Supply”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 51, 2016.
X. Shen, Duvvuri, D., Bassirian, P., Bishop, H. L., Liu, X., Dissanayake, A., Zhang, Y., Blalock, T. N., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., “A 184 nW, -78.3 dBm Sensitivity Antenna-Coupled Supply, Temperature, and Interference-Robust Wake-up Receiver at 4.9 GHz”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2022.

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