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Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials

The digital revolution has significantly transformed our world over the past decades, driven by the scaling of transistor dimensions and the exponential increase in computation power. However, as the CMOS scaling era approaches its end, the semiconductor i ...

EPFL2023

Energy Efficient Sensing using Steep Slope Devices

Teodor Rosca

Today, we are witnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, which facilitates and improves our lives in many aspects, but comes with several challenges related to the technology deployment at large scales. Handling ever growing amounts of information ...

EPFL2022

Exploring negative capacitance and neuromorphic devices based on CMOS-compatible ferroelectric HfO2

Carlotta Gastaldi

Ferroelectric materials are explored for numerous applications thanks to their properties associated with electrically switchable spontaneous polarization. Perovskites are an established class of ferroelectrics used for sensors and actuators. However, they ...

EPFL2022

LiNiO Junction Gate for High-performance Enhancement-mode GaN Power Transistor

Taifang Wang

GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MOS)HEMTs) offer outstanding properties for next-generation power electronics devices. The high conductivity, high voltage blocking capability, high operation frequency, and device-level int ...

EPFL2022

Shrinking FPGA Static Power via Machine Learning-Based Power Gating and Enhanced Routing

Mirjana Stojilovic, Hossein Asadi, Zeinab Seifoori

Despite FPGAs rapidly evolving to support the requirements of the most demanding emerging applications, their high static power consumption, concentrated within the routing resources, still presents a major hurdle for low-power applications. Augmenting the ...

2021

A Cryogenic Broadband Sub-1-dB NF CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

A cryogenic broadband low noise amplifier (LNA) for quantum applications based on a standard 40-nm CMOS technology is reported. The LNA specifications are derived from the readout of semiconductor quantum bits at 4.2 K, whose quantum information signals ar ...

2021

Performance of GaN Power Devices for Cryogenic Applications Down to 4.2 K

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Catherine Erine

Gallium nitride (GaN) power devices are employed in an increasing number of applications thanks to their excellent performance. Nevertheless, their potential for cryogenic applications, such as space, aviation, and superconducting systems, has not yet been ...

2021

Active-Device Losses in Resonant Power Converters: A Case Study with Class-E Inverters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Jessy Anthony Ançay

Recent research has reported an undesirable OFF-state loss in high-frequency soft-switching power converters, such as resonant converters. This loss is attributed to a hysteresis loss related to the charging-discharging process of the output capacitance of ...

IEEE2021

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

Negative Resistance in Cascode Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

Cascode topology which includes a high-voltage GaN and a low-voltage Si transistor is an attractive device concept, which uses the low ON-resistance of GaN while still being compatible with Si gate drivers. It demonstrates the highest threshold voltage amo ...

2020

Comparison of Different Precision Pseudo Resistor Realizations in the DC-Feedback of Capacitive Transimpedance Amplifiers

Georg Fantner, Jens Anders

In this paper, three different pseudo resistor (PR) realizations are compared regarding their noise and linearity performance within the DC feedback loop of an integrator-differentiator transimpedance amplifier (I-D-TIA). Thanks to its intrinsic shot noise ...

IEEE2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing

Alexandros Daglis

The booming popularity of online services is rapidly raising the demands for modern datacenters. In order to cope with data deluge, growing user bases, and tight quality of service constraints, service providers deploy massive datacenters with tens to hund ...

EPFL2018

Variability of Low Frequency Noise and mismatch in enclosed-gate and standard nMOSFETs

Matthias Bucher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Variability of Low Frequency Noise (LFN) and Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) is an important concern for many analog CMOS integrated circuits. In this paper, transistors with enclosed gate layout are examined and compared with standard layout transistors, wit ...

IEEE2017

A reconfigurable cryogenic platform for the classical control of quantum processors

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle, Fabio Sebastiano

The implementation of a classical control infrastructure for large-scale quantum computers is challenging due to the need for integration and processing time, which is constrained by coherence time. We propose a cryogenic reconfigurable platform as the hea ...

2017

Inexact-Aware Architecture Design for Ultra-Low Power Bio-Signal Analysis

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Soumya Subhra Basu

This paper introduces an inexact, but ultra-low power, computing architecture devoted to the embedded analysis of bio-signals. The platform operates at extremely low voltage supply levels to minimize energy consumption. In this scenario, the reliability of ...

Inst Engineering Technology-Iet2016

Polarity control in WSe2 double-gate transistors

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

As scaling of conventional silicon-based electronics is reaching its ultimate limit, considerable effort has been devoted to find new materials and new device concepts that could ultimately outperform standard silicon transistors. In this perspective two-d ...

Nature Research2016

Inversion optimization in majority-inverter graphs

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Eleonora Testa, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Odysseas Zografos

Many emerging nanotechnologies realize majority gates as primitive building blocks and they benefit from a majority-based synthesis. Recently, Majority-Inverter Graphs (MIGs) have been introduced to abstract these new technologies. We present optimi ...

Ieee2016

Fast Hierarchical NPN Classification

Giovanni De Micheli, Paolo Ienne, Mathias Soeken, Ana Petkovska

Classifying functions according to some common properties into libraries of functions is an important step in many logic synthesis and technology mapping algorithms used in FPGA design flows. NPN classification is one of the frequently used classifications ...

IEEE2016