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J. Boley, Wang, J., and Calhoun, B. H., “Analyzing Sub-Threshold Bitcell Topologies and the Effects of Assist Methods on SRAM Vmin”, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2012.

J. Boley, Wang, J., and Calhoun, B. H., “Analyzing Sub-Threshold Bitcell Topologies and the Effects of Assist Methods on SRAM VMIN”, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA), vol. 2, p. 12, 2012.

Y. Zhang, Zhang, F., Shakhsheer, Y., Silver, J. D., Klinefelter, A., Nagaraju, M., Boley, J., Pandey, J., Shrivastava, A., Carlson, E. J., Wood, A., Calhoun, B. H., and Otis, B. P., “A Batteryless 19 uW MICS/ISM-Band Energy Harvesting Body Sensor Node SoC for ExG Applications”, Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 48, pp. 199-213, 2013.

M. A. Hanson, Jr, H. C. Powell, Barth, A. T., Ringgenberg, K., Calhoun, B. H., Aylor, J. H., and Lach, J., “Body Area Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities”, Computer, vol. 42, pp. 58–65, 2009.

B. H. Calhoun, Lach, J., Stankovic, J., Wentzloff, D. D., Whitehouse, K., Barth, A., Brown, J. K., Li, Q., Oh, S., Roberts, N., and Zhang, Y., “Body Sensor Networks: A Holistic Approach From Silicon to Users”, IEEE Proceedings, 2011.

B. H. Calhoun and Brooks, D., “Can Subthreshold and Near-Threshold Circuits Go Mainstream?”, IEEE Micro, vol. 30, pp. 80-85, 2010.

S. Z. Ahmed, Truesdell, D. S., Tan, Y., Calhoun, B. H., and Ghosh, A. W., “A comprehensive analysis of Auger generation impacted planar Tunnel FETs”, Solid-State Electronics, 2020.

X. Chen, Alghaihab, A., Shi, Y., Truesdell, D. S., Calhoun, B. H., and Wentzloff, D. D., “A Crystal-Less BLE Transmitter with Clock Recovery from GFSK-Modulated BLE Packets”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2021.

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 V_MIN and Yield Estimation for Nanoscale SRAMs”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2021.

Dynamic Read VMIN and Yield Estimation of Nanoscale SRAMs.pdf (3.72 MB)

S. Gupta and Calhoun, B. H., “Dynamic Write V_MIN and Yield Estimation for Nanoscale SRAMs”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2021.

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.

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