Publications related to Flip-flop (electronics)

Critical Schrodinger Cat Qubit

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Luca Gravina

Encoding quantum information onto bosonic systems is a promising route to quantum error correc-tion. In a cat code, this encoding relies on the confinement of the dynamics of the system onto the two-dimensional manifold spanned by Schrodinger cats of oppos ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Neuromorphic computing based on halide perovskites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Feng Gao

Neuromorphic computing requires electronic systems that can perform massively parallel computational tasks with low energy consumption. Such systems have traditionally been based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor circuits, but further advances in ...

Nature Portfolio2023

A 3.3-Gb/s SPAD-Based Quantum Random Number Generator

Edoardo Charbon, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Gramuglia, Mario Stipcevic

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy source combined with an extraction or bit generation circuit in or ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Quantum error correction using squeezed Schrodinger cat states

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, David Schlegel

Bosonic quantum codes redundantly encode quantum information in the states of a quantum harmonic oscillator, making it possible to detect and correct errors. Schrodinger cat codes-based on the superposition of two coherent states with opposite displacement ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Random flip-flop: adding quantum randomness to digital circuits for improved cyber security, artificial intelligence and more

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Mario Stipcevic

Harnessing quantum randomness for the generation of random numbers is an important concept crucial for information security and many other computer-related applications. Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are evolving from bulky, slow, and expensive ...

SPIE2021

Swap and Rotate: Lightweight Linear Layers for SPN-based Blockciphers

Serge Vaudenay, Francesco Regazzoni, Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli

In CHES 2017, Jean et al. presented a paper on "Bit-Sliding" in which the authors proposed lightweight constructions for SPN based block ciphers like AES, PRESENT and SKINNY. The main idea behind these constructions was to reduce the length of the datapath ...

2020

Discrete Time Analysis of Phase Detector Timing Nonidealities in Type-I Sub-Sampling PLL

Yusuf Leblebici, Duygu Kostak

The analysis of the effect of sub-sampling phase detector (SSPD) timing nonidealities on Type-I sub-sampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL) is presented. The nonidealities considered are the delay between the complementary sampling clocks and the propagation de ...

IEEE2020

Bridging the p-type transparent conductive materials gap: synthesis approaches for disperse valence band materials

Monica Morales Masis, Angela Nicole Fioretti

Transparent conductive materials (TCMs) with high p-type conductivity and broadband transparency have remained elusive for years. Despite decades of research, no p-type material has yet been found to match the performance of n-type TCMs. If developed, the ...

2020

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

Triboelectric‐TFT Flip‐Flop for Bistable Latching of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Danick Briand, Herbert Shea, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Xiaobin Ji, Ronan Julien Hinchet

A high‐voltage flip‐flop combining two self‐powered soft sensors with a flexible high‐voltage thin film transistor (HVTFT) is reported, and is used to electrically latch dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) in zero and high‐strain states. Two touch‐actuat ...

2019

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

1.55-mu m wavelength wafer-fused OP-VECSELs in flip-chip configuration

Elyahou Kapon, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Pascal Gallo

Optically-pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs) based on flip-chip gain mirrors emitting at the 1.55-mu m wavelength range are reported. The gain mirrors employ wafer-fused InAlGaAs/InP quantum well heterostructures and GaAs/AlA ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

An electromagnetic actuator

Herbert Shea, Juan José Zarate

The present invention concerns an electromagnetic actuator (2) for a haptic display (1). The actuator (2) comprises: a) a first, movable permanent magnetic element (5), the first magnetic element (5) comprising a first latching layer facing side, a second ...

2018

End-to-End Industrial Study of Retiming

Giovanni De Micheli, Cunxi Yu, Maciej Jerzy Ciesielski

Sequential circuits are combinational circuits that are separated by registers. Retiming is considered as the most promising technique for optimizing sequential circuits, that involves moving the edge-triggered registers across the combinational logic with ...

IEEE2018

Doping-Free Complementary Logic Gates Enabled by Two-Dimensional Polarity-Controllable Transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials belonging to transition metal dichalcogenides, due to their physical and electrical properties, are an exceptional vector for the exploration of next-generation semiconductor devices. Among them, due to the po ...

2018

Design of Approximate Circuits by Fabrication of False Timing Paths: The Carry Cut-Back Adder

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter, Mattia Cacciotti

This paper introduces a novel method for designing approximate circuits by fabricating and exploiting false timing paths, i.e. critical paths that cannot be logically activated. This allows to strongly relax timing constraints while guaranteeing minimal an ...

2018

All-optical flip-flop based on dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

One of the most essential building blocks in modem electronics is the flip-flop. A flip-flop operates bi-stably between two states, remaining at a given output level (high or low level) until a specific input control signal changes. For many years, photoni ...

IEEE2017

NAND-NOR: A Compact, Fast, and Delay Balanced FPGA Logic Element

Paolo Ienne, Grace Zgheib, Yu Lin, Wei Li

The And-Inverter Cone has been introduced as an alternative logic element to the look-up table in FPGAs, since it improves their performance and resource utilization. However, further analysis of the AIC design showed that it suffers from the delay discrep ...

ACM2017

All-optical flip-flops based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A method to generate an all-optical flip-flop is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on dynamic Brillouin gratings (DBGs) in polarization maintaining fibers. In a fiber with sufficiently uniform birefringence, this flip-flop can provide extremel ...

Optical Society of America2017

Automated Integration of Dual-Edge Clocking for Low-Power Operation in Nanometer Nodes

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Andrea Bonetti, Nicholas Alexander Preyss

Clocking power, including both clock distribution and registers, has long been one of the primary factors in the total power consumption of many digital systems. One straightforward approach to reduce this power consumption is to apply dual-edge-triggered ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017