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O. Faruqe, Chen, Z., Bhattacharya, S., Foysal, M. Fahim, Hasan, S., Truesdell, D. S., and Calhoun, B. H., A 0.36 mm² On-the-Fly I2C-to-SPI Converter for E-Textile Applications, in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), In Press.
A. Agrawal, Chen, Z., Desman, B. E., Wang, J., Tanaka, A., Foysal, F., Hess, C. D., Farrell, W., Owens, J., Truesdell, D. S., and Calhoun, B. H., A 2-Dimensional mm-scale Network-on-Textiles (kNOTs) for Wearable Computing with Direct Die-to-Yarn Integration of 0.6mm x 2.15mm SoC and bySPI chiplets, in 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), In Press.
A. Tanaka, He, S., Mounesi, R., Liu, X., Faruqe, O., Mim, N. Gahan, Truesdell, D. S., Nasiri, A., and Calhoun, B. H., An 81.0% Peak Efficiency, 1.0W/cm^3 Miniaturized 5V/1A AC-DC Converter using a Highly-Integrated Primary-Side Active Clamp Flyback Controller with Adaptive Frequency and Zero-Voltage Switching, in 2025 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), In Press.
A. Agrawal, Liu, X., Truesdell, D. S., and Calhoun, B. H., Characterization of Stacked PV Cell Configurations in a Deep N-Well 65nm CMOS Technology, in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), In Press.
O. Faruqe, Le, P., Lee, D., Liu, X., Abdelatty, O., Truesdell, D. S., and Calhoun, B. H., A Fully Integrated, Custom End-to-End PPG Sensing System for Ultra-Low Power Wearables, presented at the 2025 IEEE Intern, In Press.
Z. Chen, Desman, B. E., Agrawal, A., Farrell, W., Owens, J., Truesdell, D. S., and Calhoun, B. H., ISPI: A 2-Wire Improved Serial Peripheral Interface with Automatic Routing Algorithm for 2-D In-Textile Distributed Computing and Storage Systems, in 2025 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) , In Press.
N. Ownby, Singaraju, P., Bhattacharya, S., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., A Sub-uW Digital Temperature Compensation Architecture for Arbitrary Voltage and Current Reference Generation, in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), In Press.
2024
L. Zhang, Duvvuri, D., Bhattacharya, S., Dissanayake, A., Liu, X., Bishop, H. L., Zhang, Y., Blalock, T. N., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., A -102 dBm Sensitivity Multi-Channel Heterodyne Wake-Up Receiver with Integrated ADPLL, IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, 2024.
O. Faruqe, Lee, D., Ownby, N., and Calhoun, B. H., A 10-Channel, 120 nW/Channel, Reconfigurable Capacitance-to-Digital Converter for Sub-μW Robust Wearable Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 18, no. 4, 2024.
P. Wang, Agarwala, R., Ownby, N., Liu, X., and Calhoun, B. H., A 2.3-5.7μW Tri-Modal Self-Adaptive Photoplethysmography Sensor Interface IC for Heart Rate, SpO2 , and Pulse Transit Time Co-Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2024.
X. Liu, Agrawal, A., Tanaka, A., and Calhoun, B. H., A 6nA Fully-Autonomous Triple-Input Hybrid-Inductor-Capacitor Multi-Output Power Management System with Multi-Rail Energy Sharing, All-Rail Cold Startup, and Adaptive Conversion Control for mm-scale Distributed Systems, in 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2024.PDF icon A_6nA_Fully Autonomous_Triple-Input_Hybrid-Inductor-Capacitor_Multi-Output_Power_Management_System_with_Multi-Rail_Energy_Sharing_All-Rail_Cold_Startup_and_Adaptive_Conve.pdf (1.55 MB)
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.
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.PDF icon 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)
2023
L. Zhang, Duvvuri, D., Bhattacharya, S., Dissanayake, A., Liu, X., Bishop, H. L., Zhang, Y., Blalock, T. N., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., A -102dBm Sensitivity, 2.2µA Packet-Level-Duty-cycled Wake-Up Receiver with ADPLL achieving -30dB SIR, in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2023.
O. Faruqe, Lee, D., Ownby, N., and Calhoun, B. H., A 10-Channel, 1.2 µW, Reconfigurable Capacitanceto-Digital Converter for Low-Power, Wearable Healthcare Applications, in 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2023.
X. Liu, Chen, Z., Mim, N. Gahan, Agrawal, A., and Calhoun, B. H., A 1pJ/Bit Bypass-SPI Interconnect Bus with I2C Conversion Capability and 2.3nW Standby Power for Fabric Sensing Networks, in 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2023.PDF icon A 1pJbit Bypass-SPI Interconnect Bus with I2C Conversion Capability and 2.3nW Standby Power for Fabric Sensing Networks.pdf (2.54 MB)
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 33nW Fully Autonomous SoC with Distributed Cooperative Energy Harvesting and Multi-Chip Power Management for mm-scale System-in-Fiber, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Invited paper, 2023.PDF icon A_33nW_Fully_Autonomous_SoC_with_Distributed_Cooperative_Energy_Harvesting_and_Multi-Chip_Power_Management_for_mm-scale_System-in-Fiber.pdf (16.09 MB)
S. Kamineni, Sharma, A., Harjani, R., Sapatnekar, S. S., and Calhoun, B. H., AuxcellGen: A Framework for Autonomous Generation of Analog and Memory Unit Cells, in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2023, 2023.PDF icon AuxcellGen-A Framework for Autonomous Generation of Analog and Memory Unit Cells.pdf (3.37 MB)
S. Gupta, Li, S., and Calhoun, B. H., Scalable All-Analog LDOs With Reduced Input Offset Variability Using Digital Synthesis Flow in 65-nm CMOS, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, 2023.
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.PDF icon 15.1_A_Self-Powered_SoC_with_Distributed_Cooperative_Energy_Harvesting_and_Multi-Chip_Power_Management_for_System-in-Fiber.pdf (1.51 MB)
2022
X. Shen, Duvvuri, D., Bassirian, P., Bishop, H. L., Liu, X., Dissanayake, A., Zhang, Y., Blalock, T. N., Calhoun, B. H., and Bowers, S. M., A 184 nW, -78.3 dBm Sensitivity Antenna-Coupled Supply, Temperature, and Interference-Robust Wake-up Receiver at 4.9 GHz, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2022.
X. Liu, Kamineni, S., Breiholz, J., Calhoun, B. H., and Li, S., A 194nW Energy-Performance-Aware IoT SoC Employing a 5.2nW 92.6% Peak Efficiency Power Management Unit for System Performance Scaling, Fast DVFS and Energy Minimization, in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2022.PDF icon A 194nW Energy-Performance-Aware IoT SoC Employing a 5.2nW 92.6% Peak Efficiency Power Management Unit for System Performance Scaling, Fa.pdf (4.4 MB)
S. Li, Liu, X., and Calhoun, B. H., A 32nA Fully Autonomous Multi-Input Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy Harvesting and Power Management Platform with 1.2×10^5 Dynamic Range, Integrated MPPT, and Multi-Modal Cold Start-Up, in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2022.
S. Li, Liu, X., and Calhoun, B. H., A 956pW Switched-Capacitor Sub-Bandgap Reference with 0.44-to-3.3V Supply Range, -67dB PSRR, and 0.2% within-Wafer Inaccuracy for Nanowatt IoT Systems, in 2022 IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2022.
N. Ownby, Flynn, K., and Calhoun, B. H., Modeling Energy Aware Photoplethsmography for Personalized Healthcare Applications, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2022.

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