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A. Shrivastava and Calhoun, B. H., “A DC-DC Converter Efficiency Model for System Level Analysis in Ultra Low Power Applications”, 2013.
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.
E. Shih, Cho, S. - H., Lee, F. S., Calhoun, B. H., and Chandrakasan, A., “Design Considerations for Energy-Efficient Radios in Wireless Microsensor Networks”, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 37, pp. 77-94, 2004.
B. H. Calhoun, Daly, D. D., Verma, N., Finchelstein, D., Wentzloff, D. D., Wang, A., Cho, S. - H., and Chandrakasan, A., “Design Considerations for Ultra-low Energy Wireless Microsensor Nodes”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 54, pp. 727-740, 2005.
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.
P. Beshay, Ryan, J. F., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Digital Auto-Zeroing Circuit to Reduce Offset in Sub-threshold Sense Amplifiers”, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2013.
B. H. Calhoun, Cao, X. Li Yu, Mai, K., Pileggi, L. T., Rutenbar, R. A., and Shepard, K. L., “Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS”, Proceedings of the IEEE (Special Issue on Integrated Electronics: Beyond Moore’s Law), vol. 96, pp. 343-365, 2008.
X. Liu, Agrawal, A., Tanaka, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “Distributed Energy Harvesting and Power Management Units for Self-Powered In-Fabric Sensing Networks”, 2024 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), invited paper, 2024.
S. Gupta and Calhoun, B. H., “Dynamic Read VMIN and Yield Estimation for Nanoscale SRAMs”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2021.PDF icon Dynamic Read VMIN and Yield Estimation of Nanoscale SRAMs.pdf (3.72 MB)
S. Gupta and Calhoun, B. H., “Dynamic Write VMIN and Yield Estimation for Nanoscale SRAMs”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2021.PDF icon Dynamic Write VMIN and Yield Estimation for Nanoscale SRAMs.pdf (4.55 MB)
C. T. Murphy, Eberhardt, W. C., Calhoun, B. H., Mann, K. A., and Mann, D. A., “Effect of Angle on Flow-Induced Vibrations of Pinniped Vibrissae”, PLOS One, vol. Vol. 8, No. 7, 2013.
Y. Zhang, Shakhsheer, Y., Barth, A. T., Powell, Jr., H. C., Ridenour, S. A., Hanson, M. A., Lach, J., and Calhoun, B. H., “Energy Efficient Design for Body Sensor Nodes”, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2011.
S. N. Wooters, Calhoun, B. H., and Blalock, T. N., “An Energy-Efficient Subthreshold Level Converter in 130-nm CMOS”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 57, pp. 290-294, 2010.
J. Wang, Hoefler, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “An Enhanced Canary-based System with BIST for SRAM Standby Power Reduction”, Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), 2011.
A. Alghaihab, Shi, Y., Breiholz, J., Kim, H. - S., Calhoun, B. H., and Wentzloff, D. D., “Enhanced Interference Rejection Bluetooth Low-Energy Back-Channel Receiver With LO Frequency Hopping”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019.
B. H. Calhoun, Ryan, J., Khanna, S., Putic, M., and Lach, J., “Flexible Circuits and Architectures for Ultra Low Power”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, pp. 267-282, 2010.
V. Misra, Bozkurt, A., Calhoun, B., Jackson, T., Jur, J., Lach, J., Lee, B., Muth, J., Oralkan, O., Ozturk, M., Trolier-McKinstry, S., Vashaee, D., Wentzloff, D., and Zhu, Y., “Flexible Technologies for Self-Powered Wearable Health and Environmental Sensing”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 103, pp. 665-681, 2015.
J. Moody, Dissanayake, A., Bishop, H. L., Lu, R., Liu, N. X., Duvvuri, D., Gao, A., Truesdell, D. S., N. Barker, S., Gong, S., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., “A Highly Re-configurable Bit-level Duty Cycled TRF Receiver Achieving -106 dBm Sensitivity and 33 nW Average Power Consumption”, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), Special Issue on VLSI (invited paper), 2019.
R. W. Mann, Wang, J., Nalam, S., Khanna, S., Braceras, G., Pilo, H., and Calhoun, B. H., “Impact of circuit assist methods on margin and performance in 6T SRAM”, Journal of Solid State Electronics, vol. 54, pp. 1398-1407, 2010.
J. Moody, Bassirian, P., Roy, A., Liu, N. X., N Barker, S., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., “Interference Robust Detector-First Near-Zero Power Wake-Up Receiver”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019.
B. H. Calhoun, Honore, F. A., and Chandrakasan, A., “A Leakage Reduction Methodology for Distributed MTCMOS”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 39, pp. 818-826, 2004.
J. Wang and Calhoun, B. H., “Minimum Supply Voltage and Yield Estimation for Large SRAMs Under Parametric Variations”, Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), 2011.
D. S. Truesdell, Ahmed, S. Z., Ghosh, A. W., and Calhoun, B. H., “Minimum-Energy Digital Computing with Steep Subthreshold Swing Tunnel FETs”, IEEE Journal of Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (JxCDC), 2020.PDF icon Minimum-Energy Digital Computing With Steep Subthreshold Swing Tunnel FETs.pdf (1.02 MB)
B. H. Calhoun, Wang, A., and Chandrakasan, A., “Modeling and Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Sub-threshold Circuits”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 40, pp. 1778-1786, 2005.
S. Z. Ahmed, Tan, Y., Truesdell, D. S., Calhoun, B. H., and Ghosh, A., “Modeling tunnel field effect transistors-from interface chemistry to non-idealities to circuit level performance”, Journal of Applied Physics, 2018.

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