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J. Boley, Beshay, P., and Calhoun, B. H., “Virtual Prototyper (ViPro): An SRAM Design Tool for Yield Constrained Optimization”, Transactions of Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 2015.

A. Mallick, Bashar, M. K., Truesdell, D. S., Calhoun, B. H., Joshi, S., and Shukla, N., “Using synchronized oscillators to compute the maximum independent set”, Nature Communications, 2020.

B. H. Calhoun and Chandrakasan, A., “Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling (UDVS) Using Sub-threshold Operation and Local Voltage Dithering”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 41, pp. 238-245, 2006.

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.

F. B. Yahya, Lukas, C. J., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Top-Down Approach to Building Battery-Less Self-Powered Systems for the Internet-of-Things”, Journal of Low Power Electronics & Applications, 2018.

J. Wang and Calhoun, B. H., “Techniques to Extend Canary-based Standby VDD Scaling for SRAMs to 45nm and Beyond”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, pp. 2514-2523, 2008.

X. Liu, Kamineni, S., Breiholz, J., Calhoun, B. H., and Li, S., “A Sub-µW Energy-Performance-Aware IoT SoC with a Triple-Mode Power Management Unit for System Performance Scaling, Fast DVFS, and Energy Minimization”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2024.

A_Sub-_mu_W_Energy-Performance-Aware_IoT_SoC_With_a_Triple_Mode_Power_Management_Unit_for_System_Performance_Scaling_Fast_DVFS_and_Energy_Minimization.pdf (7.38 MB)

X. Liu, Calhoun, B. H., and Li, S., “A Sub-nW 93% Peak Efficiency Buck Converter with Wide Dynamic Range, Fast DVFS, and Asynchronous Load-Transient Control”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, (invited paper), 2022.

A SubnW 93 Peak Efficiency Buck Converter With Wide Dynamic Range Fast DVFS and Asynchronous Load Transient Control.pdf (3.94 MB)

B. H. Calhoun and Chandrakasan, A., “Static Noise Margin Variation for Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 41, pp. 1673-1679, 2006.

B. H. Calhoun and Chandrakasan, A., “Standby Power Reduction Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Flip-Flop Structures”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 39, pp. 1504-1511, 2004.

D. S. Truesdell and Calhoun, B. H., “A Single-Supply 6-Transistor Voltage Level Converter Design Reaching 8.18-fJ/Transition at 0.3-1.2-V Range or 44-fW Leakage at 0.8-2.5-V Range”, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), 2020.

A Single-Supply 6-Transistor Voltage Level Converter Design Reaching 8.18-fJ_Transition at 0.3-1.2-V Range or 44-fW Leakage at 0.8-2.5-V Range.pdf (1.06 MB)

A. Klinefelter, Zhang, Y., Otis, B., and Calhoun, B. H., “A Programmable 34 nW/Channel Sub-Threshold Signal Band Power Extractor on a Body Sensor Node SoC”, Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 59, p. 941, 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Minimum-Energy Digital Computing With Steep Subthreshold Swing Tunnel FETs.pdf (1.02 MB)

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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