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J. Wang, Singhee, A., Rutenbar, R. A., and Calhoun, B. H., “Two Fast Methods for Estimating the Minimum Standby Supply Voltage for Large SRAMs”, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 29, pp. 1908-1920, 2010.

S. Li, Roy, A., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Piezoelectric Energy-Harvesting System with Parallel-SSHI Rectifier and Integrated Maximum-Power-Point Tracking”, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), Special Issue on VLSI (invited paper), 2019.

P. Bassirian, Moody, J., Lu, R., Gao, A., Manzaneque, T., Roy, A., N Barker, S., Calhoun, B. H., Gong, S., and Bowers, S. M., “Nanowatt-Level Wakeup Receiver Front Ends Using MEMS Resonators for Impedance Transformation”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2019.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A. Roy, Klinefelter, A., Yahya, F., Chen, X., Gonzalez, P., Lukas, C. J., Akella, D., Boley, J., Craig, K., Faisal, M., Oh, S., Roberts, N., Shakhsheer, Y., Shrivastava, A., Vasudevan, D., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B., “A 6.45μW Self-Powered SoC with Integrated Energy-Harvesting Power Management and ULP Asymmetric Radios for Portable Biomedical Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 9, pp. 862-874, 2015.

A. Roy, Klinefelter, A., Yahya, F., Chen, X., Gonzalez, P., Lukas, C. J., Akella, D., Boley, J., Craig, K., Faisal, M., Oh, S., Roberts, N., Shakhsheer, Y., Shrivastava, A., Vasudevan, D., Wentzloff, D. D., and Calhoun, B., “A 6.45μW Self-Powered SoC with Integrated Energy-Harvesting Power Management and ULP Asymmetric Radios for Portable Biomedical Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 9, pp. 862-874, 2015.

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.

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.

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Conference Paper

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.

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.

S. Nalam, Bhargava, M., Ringgenberg, K., Mai, K., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Technology-Agnostic Simulation Environment (TASE) for Iterative Custom IC Design across Processes”, in ICCD, 2009, pp. 523-528.

B. H. Calhoun, Khanna, S., Zhang, Y., Ryan, J., and Otis, B., “System Design Principles Combining Sub-threshold Circuits and Architectures with Energy Scavening Mechanisms”, in International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Paris, France, 2010, pp. 269-272.

P. Beshay, Ryan, J. F., and Calhoun, B. H., “Sub-threshold Sense Amplifier Compensation Using Auto-zeroing Circuitry”, in Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference, 2012.

J. F. Ryan and Calhoun, B. H., “A Sub-Threshold FPGA with Low-Swing Dual-VDD Interconnect in 90nm CMOS”, in Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010.

J. Wang, Singhee, A., Rutenbar, R. A., and Calhoun, B. H., “Statistical Modeling for the Minimum Standby Supply Voltage of a Full SRAM Array”, in European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2007, pp. 400-403.

X. Liu, Truesdell, D. S., Faruqe, O., Parameswaran, L., Rickley, M., Kopanski, A., Cantley, L., Coon, A., Bernasconi, M., Wang, T., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Self-Powered SoC with Distributed Cooperative Energy Harvesting and Multi-Chip Power Management for System-in-Fiber”, in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023.

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B. H. Calhoun, Arrabi, S., Khanna, S., Shakhsheer, Y., Craig, K., Ryan, J., and Lach, J., “REESES: Rapid Efficient Energy Scalable ElectronicS”, in GOMAC Tech, 2010.

A. Singhee, Wang, J., Calhoun, B. H., and Rutenbar, R. A., “Recursive Statistical Blockade: An Enhanced Technique for Rare Event Simulation with Application to SRAM Circuit Design”, in International Conference on VLSI Design, India, 2008, pp. 131-136.

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