Dynamic thermal management for FinFET-based circuits exploiting the temperature effect inversion phenomenon

W Lee, Y Wang, T Cui, S Nazarian… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Due to limits on the availability of the energy source in many mobile user platforms (ranging
from handheld devices to portable electronics to deeply embedded devices) and concerns …

An energy efficient level shifter capable of logic conversion from sub-15 mV to 1.2 V

E Låte, T Ytterdal, S Aunet - … on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose architectural advances in low voltage, energy-efficient, level shifters. A write
assist circuit is introduced, to support the up-conversion of deep subthreshold inputs. We …

TEI-NoC: Optimizing ultralow power NoCs exploiting the temperature effect inversion

K Han, JJ Lee, J Lee, W Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The era of the Internet of Things (IoT) is upon us. In this era, minimizing power consumption
becomes a primary concern of system-on-chip designers. Ultralow power (ULP) very large …

Developing TEI-aware ultralow-power SoC platforms for IoT end nodes

K Han, S Lee, KI Oh, Y Bae, H Jang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ranging from circuit-level characterization to designing a platform architecture, developing a
design automation tool, and fabricating a System on Chip (SoC), this article deals with the …

An ultra low energy biomedical signal processing system operating at near-threshold

J Hulzink, M Konijnenburg, M Ashouei… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a voltage-scalable digital signal processing system designed for the
use in a wireless sensor node (WSN) for ambulatory monitoring of biomedical signals. To …

Power efficient level shifter for 16 nm FinFET near threshold circuits

A Shapiro, EG Friedman - … on very large scale integration (VLSI …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the minimum feature size has shrunk beyond the sub-30-nm node, power density has
become the major factor in modern microprocessors. Techniques such as dynamic voltage …

TIP: A temperature effect inversion-aware ultra-low power system-on-chip platform

K Han, S Lee, JJ Lee, W Lee… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Researchers have been trying to exploit the temperature effect inversion (TEI) phenomenon
to improve energy efficiency of system-on-chip (SoC) designs without sacrificing its …

TEI-power: Temperature Effect Inversion--Aware Dynamic Thermal Management

W Lee, K Han, Y Wang, T Cui, S Nazarian… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
FinFETs have emerged as a promising replacement for planar CMOS devices in sub-20nm
technology nodes. However, based on the temperature effect inversion (TEI) phenomenon …

A DC-DC Converter with Switched-Capacitor Delay Deadtime Controller and Enhanced Unbalanced-Input Pair Zero-Current Detector to Boost Power Efficiency

CL Kok, H Tang, TH Teo, YY Koh - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This proposed work introduces a DC-DC converter with Switched-Capacitor Delay Deadtime
Controller (SCD-DTC), Digitally Controlled Start-Up Block (DC-SUB), and Enhanced …

TEI-ULP: Exploiting body biasing to improve the TEI-Aware ultralow power methods

W Lee, T Kang, JJ Lee, K Han, J Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temperature effect inversion (TEI) phenomenon in ultralow power (ULP) very large scale
integration circuits has been identified as an important effect by both academia and industry …