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2016
Y. Huang, Shrivastava, A., Barnes, L., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Design and Theoretical Analysis of a 145 mV to 1.2 V Single-Ended Level Converter Circuit for Ultra-Low Power Low Voltage ICs”, J. Low Power Electron. Appl. (JLPEA), vol. 6, 2016.
N. Liu and Calhoun, B. H., “Design Optimization of Register File Throughput and Energy using a Virtual Prototyping (ViPro) Tool”, in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2016.
W. Eberhardt, Wakefield, B., Casey, C., Murphy, C., Calhoun, B. H., and Reichmuth, C., “Development of an artificial sensor for hydrodynamic detection inspired by a seal’s whisker array”, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2016.
H. Qi, Ayorinde, O., and Calhoun, B. H., “An Energy-Efficient Near/Sub-Threshold FPGA Interconnect Architecture Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Power-Gating”, in International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT 2016), Xi’an, China, 2016.
A. Roy and Calhoun, B., “Exploring Circuit Robustness to Power Supply Variation in Low-Voltage Latch and Register-Based Digital Systems”, in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, Canada, 2016.
H. Patel, Yahya, F., and Calhoun, B. H., “Improving Reliability and Energy Requirements of Memory in Body Sensor Networks.”, in International Conference on VLSI Design, Kolkata, India, 2016.
D. Kamakshi, Fojtik, M., Khailany, B., Kudva, S., Zhou, Y., and Calhoun, B. H., “Modeling and Analysis of Power Supply Noise Tolerance with Fine-grained GALS Adaptive Clocks”, in ASYNC, 2016.
H. Patel, Yahya, F., and Calhoun, B., “Optimizing SRAM Bitcell Reliability and Energy for IoT Applications”, in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Santa Clara, CA, 2016.
F. Yahya, Patel, H., Boley, J., Banerjee, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Sub-threshold 8T SRAM Macro with 12.29nW/KB Standby Power and 6.24 pJ/access for Battery-Less IoT SoCs”, J. Low Power Electron. Appl. (JLPEA), vol. 6, 2016.
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.
2017
A. Banerjee, Liu, N., Patel, H. N., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 256kb 6T self-tuning SRAM with extended 0.38V–1.2V operating range using multiple read/write assists and VMIN tracking canary sensors”, in 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, 2017, 2017.
J. Breiholz, Yahya, F., Lukas, C. J., Chen, X., Leach, K., Wentzloff, D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 4.4 nW Lossless Sensor Data Compression Accelerator for 2.9x System Power Reduction in Wireless Body Sensors”, in 2017 IEEE 60th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Boston, MA, USA, 2017.
A. Roy and Calhoun, B. H., “A 71% Efficient Energy Harvesting and Power Management Unit for Sub-µW Power Biomedical Applications”, in 2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Turin, Italy, 2017.
J. Moody, Bassirian, P., Roy, A., Feng, Y., Li, S., Costanzo, R., N. Barker, S., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., “An 8.3 nW -72 dBm Event Driven IoE Wake Up Receiver RF Front End”, in 2017 European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference (EuMIC), Nuremberg, Germany, 2017.
S. Z. Ahmed, Tan, Y., Truesdell, D. S., and Ghosh, A., “Auger Effect Limited Performance in Tunnel Field Effect Transistors”, in 5th Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronics & Steep Transistors Workshop, Berkeley, CA, 2017.
F. Yahya, Lukas, C. J., Breiholz, J., Roy, A., Patel, H. N., Liu, N. X., Chen, X., Kosari, A., Li, S., Akella, D., Ayorinde, O., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A battery-less 507nW SoC with integrated platform power manager and SiP interfaces”, in 2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, Japan, 2017.
F. B. Yahya, Lukas, C. J., and Calhoun, B. H., “FAR: A 4.12uW Ferro-electric Auto-Recovery for Battery-less BSN SoCs”, in 2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Turin, Italy, 2017.
C. J. Lukas, Yahya, F. B., and Calhoun, B. H., “Modeling Trans-threshold Correlations for Reducing Functional Test Time in Ultra-Low Power Systems”, in 2017 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), Fort Worth, TX, USA, 2017.
H. N. Patel, Mann, R. W., and Calhoun, B. H., “Soft Errors: Reliability Challenges in Energy-Constrained ULP Body Sensor Networks Applications”, in 23rd IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017.
H. N. Patel, Yahya, F. B., and Calhoun, B. H., “Subthreshold SRAM: Challenges, Design Decisions, and Solutions”, in 60th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2017.
H. Qi, Ayorinde, O., and Calhoun, B. H., “An Ultra-Low-Power FPGA for IoT Applications”, in S3S 2017, 2017.
2018
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.
N. X. Liu, Agarwala, R., Dissanayake, A., Truesdell, D. S., Kamineni, S., Chen, X., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B. H., “A 2.5 ppm/°C 1.05 MHz Relaxation Oscillator with Dynamic Frequency-Error Compensation and 8 µs Start-Up Time”, in IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Dresden, Germany, 2018.
X. Chen, Breiholz, J., Yahya, F. B., Lukas, C. J., Kim, H. - S., Calhoun, B. H., and Wentzloff, D. D., “A 486 µW All-Digital Bluetooth Low Energy Transmitter with Ring Oscillator Based ADPLL for IoT applications”, in IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2018.
J. Moody, Bassirian, P., Roy, A., Liu, N. X., Pancrazio, S., N. Barker, S., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., “A -76dBm 7.4 nW wakeup radio with automatic offset compensation”, in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2018.

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