Silicon CMOS circuits have a well-defined lower limit on their achievable energy efficiency due to subthreshold leakage. Once this limit…
In wireless sensor applications such as implantable neural recording arrays, the high energy cost to transmit a bit of information…
The performance of future manycore processors will only scale with the number of integrated cores if there is a corresponding…
This work describes an architecture and circuit implementation of a fractionally spaced equalizer (FSE) receiver, built to unify equalization and…
On-chip interconnects and high-speed off-chip interfaces (electrical, photonic). Circuit and interconnect design with novel devices (CNTs, NEM relays, Si-photonics). Modeling and analysis of noise and dynamics in circuits and systems. Application of optimization techniques to digital communications, analog and digital circuits. Digital communications and signal-processing architectures, clock generation and distribution, high-speed digital circuit design, VLSI and mixed-signal IC design.