IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Newsletter | Volume 17 | Issue 6 | December 2023 | CURRENT/PAST ISSUES

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Our Editors-in-Chief’s Top Picks

The Editors-in-Chief of our CASS publications have selected some noteworthy papers from the recent issues of our journals:

IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems

  • S. S. Parihar, S. Thomann, G. Pahwa, Y. S. Chauhan, and H. Amrouch, "Cryogenic In-Memory Computing for Quantum Processors Using Commercial 5-nm FinFETs,” IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 258-270, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3309478. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10233878
    • In this work, for the first time, the authors propose and implement an end-to-end approach that investigates SRAM-based IMC for cryogenic CMOS.
  • S. S. Parihar, S. Thomann, G. Pahwa, Y. S. Chauhan, and H. Amrouch, "Cryogenic In-Memory Computing for Quantum Processors Using Commercial 5-nm FinFETs," IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 258-270, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3309478.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10068768
    • This paper reports an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) single-crystal oscillator-timer (XO-Timer) for sub-0.5 V Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) radios that aims for self-powering by harvesting the ambient energies. Specifically, we tailor an on-chip micropower manager (μ PM) to customize the voltage and current budgets for each sub-function of the XO-Timer.
  • J. Xu, Y. Shen, J. Yi, E. Chen, and V. Chen, "Deep Reinforcement Learning on FPGA for Self-Healing Cryogenic Power Amplifier Control," IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 176-187, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3282929. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143969
    • This paper presents a cryogenic and energy-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) module on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) that can directly program the PA.


IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

  • C.-C. Lin, Q. Xu, H. Hu, and S. Gupta, "Design Considerations of Time-Interleaved Discrete-Time Beamformers Toward Wideband Communications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 4068-4072, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3282628. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143978
  • S. Fan et al., "A Low-Power Sensing System Architecture With Mott Memristor and Time-to-Digital Converter for Large-Scale Sensor-Array Application," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 3842-3846, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3290122. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10167782
  • Y. Zhong, Z. Wang, X. Cui, J. Cao, and Y. Wang, "An Efficient Neuromorphic Implementation of Temporal Coding-Based On-Chip STDP Learning," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 4241-4245, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3282653. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143920


IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

  • M. R. Stan, "Editorial Rolling Out the IEEE TVLSI EDICS," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1879-1881, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3324533. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10328932
  • W. Guan, X. Tang, H. Lu, Y. Zhang and Y. Zhang, "Thermal-Aware Fixed-Outline 3-D IC Floorplanning: An End-to-End Learning-Based Approach," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1882-1895, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3321532. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10278145
  • A. Stefanidis, I. Zoumpoulidou, D. Filippas, G. Dimitrakopoulos and G. C. Sirakoulis, "Synthesis of Approximate Parallel-Prefix Adders," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1686-1699, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3287631.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10168822
  • X. Xue et al., "Exploring Winograd Convolution for Cost-Effective Neural Network Fault Tolerance," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1763-1773, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3306894.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10238441
  • Z. Azad, G. Yang, R. Agrawal, D. Petrisko, M. Taylor and A. Joshi, "RISE: RISC-V SoC for En/Decryption Acceleration on the Edge for Homomorphic Encryption," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1523-1536, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3288754. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10185072
  • S. Fu et al., "RHS-TRNG: A Resilient High-Speed True Random Number Generator Based on STT-MTJ Device," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1578-1591, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2023.3298327. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10225417


IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

  • A. Ray, I. Habibagahi, and A. Babakhani, "A Fully Wireless and Batteryless Localization System With 50 Micrometre Motion Detection Capability and Adaptive Transmitter Power Control for Point-of-Care Biomedical Applications," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 674-687, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3289149. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10163069
  • S. Wang et al., "Multisensing Wearables for Real-Time Monitoring of Sweat Electrolyte Biomarkers During Exercise and Analysis on Their Correlation With Core Body Temperature," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 808-817, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3286528. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10153656
  • H. Wu, J. Chen, X. Liu, W. Zou, J. Yang, and M. Sawan, "An Energy-Efficient Small-Area Configurable Analog Front-End Interface for Diverse Biosignals Recording," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 818-830, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3293492. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10177203


IEEE Journal on Emeging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

  • J. Cai, J. Feng, J. Wang and Y. Zhao, "Stochastic Synchronization of Semi-Markovian Switching Cyber-Physical Impulsive Complex Networks via Dynamic Event-Triggered SMC," IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 752-766, Sept. 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992008
  • D. Yoo and D. S. Jeong, "CBP-QSNN: Spiking Neural Networks Quantized Using Constrained Backpropagation,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, early access, 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10302274
  • J. Büchel, A. Vasilopoulos, B. Kersting, C. Lammie, K. Brew, T. Philip, N. Saulnier, V. Narayanan, M. Le Gallo, and A. Sebastian, "Programming Weights to Analog In-Memory Computing Cores by Direct Minimization of the Matrix-Vector Multiplication Error" IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, early access, 2023. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10304185


IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

  • J. Lin, L. Zhu, W. -M. Chen, W. -C. Wang and S. Han, "Tiny Machine Learning: Progress and Futures [Feature]," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 8-34, thirdquarter 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2023.3302182. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10284551
  • J. -F. Zhang and Z. Zhang, "Machine Learning Hardware Design for Efficiency, Flexibility, and Scalability [Feature]," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 35-53, thirdquarter 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2023.3302390.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10284562
  • R. Theertham and S. Pavan, "Challenges in Precision Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Data Converter Design [Feature]," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 54-67, thirdquarter 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2023.3302391. 
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10284564


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