IMPACT

Publications

1	S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, Adaptive Digital Circuits for Power-Performance Range beyond Wide Voltage Scaling, Springer, 2020
2	A. Alvarez, G. Ponnusamy, M. Alioto, “Energy-Quality Scalable Memory-Frugal Feature Extraction for Always-On Deep Sub-mW Distributed Vision,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 18951-18961, Jan. 2020
3	S. Jain, L. Longyang, M. Alioto, “Automated Design of Reconfigurable Micro-Architectures for Accelerators under Wide Voltage Scaling,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 777-790, March 2020
4	J. H. Teo, S. Cheng, M. Alioto, “Low-Energy Voice Activity Detection via Energy-Quality Scaling from Data Conversion to Machine Learning,” IEEE Trans. on CAS – part I, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1378-1377, April 2020
5	O. Aiello, P. Crovetti, M. Alioto, “Fully Synthesizable Low-Area Analogue-to-Digital Converters with Minimal Design Effort Based on the Dyadic Digital Pulse Modulation,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 70890-70899, April 2020
6	S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Broad-Purpose In-Memory Computing for Signal Monitoring and Machine Learning Workloads,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (invited), vol. 3, pp. 394-397, Sept. 2020
7	P. Toledo, P. Crovetti, O. Aiello, M. Alioto, “Fully Digital Rail-to-Rail OTA with Sub-1,000 µm2 Area, 250-mV Minimum Supply and nW Power at 150-pF Load in 180nm,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 3, pp. 474-477, Sept. 2020
8	S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Processor Energy-Performance Range Extension Beyond Voltage Scaling via Drop-In Methodologies,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited), vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2670-2679, Oct. 2020
9	L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Sub-nW Microcontroller with Dual-Mode Logic and Self-startup for Battery-Indifferent Sensor Nodes,” accepted to IEEE JSSC
10	L. Fassio, F. Settino, L. Longyang, R. De Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi, M. Alioto, “A Robust Sub-Threshold, Low Power-Delay, Energy and Area Efficient Level Shifter,” accepted to IEEE TCAS-II
11	O. Aiello, P. Crovetti, P. Toledo, M. Alioto, “Rail-to-Rail Dynamic Voltage Comparator Scalable down to pW-Range Power and 0.15-V Supply,” accepted to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – part II
12	U. De Alwis, M. Alioto, “TempDiff: Feature Map-Level CNN Sparsity Enhancement at Near-Zero Memory Overhead via Temporal Difference,” IEEE JETCAS, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 620-633, Dec. 2021
13	V. Konandur Rajanna, M. Alioto, “On-Chip Links with Energy-Quality Tradeoff in Error-Resilient and Machine Learning Applications,” accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
14	S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “±CIM SRAM for Signed In-Memory Broad-Purpose Computing from DSP to Neural Processing,” accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited)
15	A Multi-Mode Multi-Coil Coupled Tuned Inductive Peaking ILFD for Low Injected Power With Compact Size
16	Design of Reconfigurable dB-Linear Variable-Gain Amplifier and Switchable-Order Gm-C Filter in 65-nm CMOS Technology
17	Design of a wideband variable-gain amplifier with self-compensated transistor for accurate dB-linear characteristic in 65 nm CMOS technology
18	Design of Differential Variable-Gain Transimpedance Amplifier in 0.18-µm SiGe BiCMOS
19	Ka-Band Marchand Balun with Edge and Broadside Coupled Configuration
20	Design of a Ka-Band U-Shaped Bandpass Filter with 20-GHz Bandwidth in 0.13-μm BiCMOS Technology
21	A 60 GHz 8-Way Combined Power Amplifier in 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS
22	A Two-Stage X-Band 20.7-dBm Power Amplifier in 40-nm CMOS Technology
23	A Monolithically Integrated Single-Input Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier with Enhanced Efficiency at Power Back-Off
24	Neural Epitome Search for Architecture-Agnostic Network Compression
25	T.-N. Pham, Q.-K. Trinh, I.-J. Chang, M. Alioto, “STT-BNN: A Novel STT-MRAM In-Memory Computing Macro for Binary Neural Networks,” IEEE JETCAS, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 569-579, June 2022T.-N. Pham, Q.-K. Trinh, I.-J. Chang, M. Alioto, “STT-BNN: A Novel STT-MRAM In-Memory Computing Macro for Binary Neural Networks,” IEEE JETCAS, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 569-579, June 2022
26	Distributed Anomaly Detection in Smart Grids: A Federated Learning-Based Approach
27	K. Ali, J. H. Teo, S. Sarkar, M. Alioto, “Dual-Mode Conversion Gating, Comparator Merging and Reference-Less Calibration for 2.7X Energy Reduction in SAR ADCs under Low-Activity Inputs,” in print on IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
28	A Linear-in-Decibel Automatic Gain Control Amplifier With Dual Mode Continuous Gain Tuning
29	A Fully Integrated Pulling Mitigation Synthesizer for NB-IoT Transmitter

Presentations

1	S. Jain, L. Longyang, M. Alioto, “Low-Overhead Drop-In Techniques to Extend the Energy-Performance Tradeoff in Microcontrollers Beyond VDD Scaling,” in Proc. of ASSCC 2019, pp. 125-129, Macau (China), Nov. 2019
2	An inductorless 6-GHz variable gain differential transimpedance amplifier in 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS
3	Design of a Voltage-Controlled Programmable-Gain Amplifier in 65-nm CMOS Technology
4	An Inductorless 5-GHz Differential Dual Regulated Cross-Cascode Transimpedance Amplifier using 40 nm CMOS
5	O. Aiello, P. Crovetti, A. Sharma, M. Alioto, “Fully-Synthesizable Current-Input ADCs for Ultra-Low Area and Minimal Design Effort,” accepted to ICECS 2019
6	Rethinking Bottleneck Structure for Efficient Mobile Network Design
7	Ultra-Low Power Receiver Architecture with Enhanced Input Signal Swing for Improved Sensitivity
8	An Ultra-Low Power 900 MHz Intermediate Frequency Low Noise Amplifier for Low-Power RF Receivers
9	CMOS Transformer Design for X-band Power Amplifier Applications
10	S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Broad-Purpose In-Memory Computing for Signal Monitoring and Machine Learning Workloads Based on Commercial Bitcell,” accepted to IEEE ASSCC 2020 (invited and accepted to IEEE SSC-L)
11	J. H. Teo, K. Ali, M. Alioto, “Voice Activity Detection with >83% Accuracy under SNR down to -3dB at 1.19µW and 0.07mm2 in 40nm,” accepted to IEEE ASSCC 2020
12	U. De Alwis, M. Alioto, “TempDiff: Temporal Difference-Based Feature Map-Level Sparsity Induction in CNNs with <4% Memory Overhead,” accepted to IEEE AICAS 2021
13	P. Leite Correia, P. Crovetti, H. Klimach, S. Bampi, O. Aiello, M. Alioto, “A 300mV-Supply, sub-nW-Power Digital-Based Operational Transconductance Amplifier,” accepted to IEEE AICAS 2021
14	V. Konandur Rajanna, S. Taneja, M. Alioto, “A 109TOPS/mm2 and 749-1,459TOPS/W SRAM Buffer with In-Memory Inference and Prediction-Less Bitline Activity Reduction in 28nm,” accepted to IEEE ESSCIRC 2021
15	S. Wu, K. De Silva, S. Gutgutia, B. Baas, M. Alioto, “A 1448-Mpixel/s, 84-pJ/pixel Display Stream Compression Encoder in 28 nm for 4K Video Resolution,” accepted to IEEE ASSCC 2021
16	Ku-Band Bidirectional Mixer with Directional Control
17	A 60 GHz Edge-Coupled 4-Way Balun Power Amplifier with 22.7dBm Output Power and 27.7% Peak Efficiency
18	A 24.6-32.5 GHz Millimeter-wave Frequency Synthesizer for 5G Wireless and 60 GHz Applications
19	A New Degeneration Technique for Low-voltage, Low-power, Triple-cascode Low Noise Amplifier in Millimeter Wave Applications
20	A. Gupta, V. Konandur, T. Salam, S. Jain, O. Aiello, P. Crovetti, M. Alioto, “DDPMnet: All-Digital Pulse Density-Based DNN Architecture with 228 Gate Equivalents/MAC Unit, 28-TOPS/W and 1.5-TOPS/mm2 in 40nm,” accepted to IEEE CICC 2022
21	U. De Alwis, M. Alioto, “Temporal Redundancy-Based Computation Reduction for 3D Convolutional Neural Networks,” accepted to IEEE AICAS 2022
22	A Hybrid Pulling Mitigation Synthesizer for NB-IoT Transmitter
23	Ultra-Low Power 2.4 GHz Receiver Design Techniques for IoT Applications
24	K. A. Ahmed, H. Okuhara, M. Alioto, “55-pW/pixel Peak Power Imager with Near-Sensor Novelty/Edge Detection and DC-DC Converter-Less MPPT for Purely-Harvested Sensor Nodes,” in IEEE ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2022, pp. 102-103
25	U. De Alwis, X. Zhongheng, M. Alioto, “Temporal Similarity-Based Computation Reduction for Video Transformers in Edge Camera Nodes,” accepted to IEEE AICAS 2023
26	A. Gupta, S. Kumar, V. Konandur, S. Taneja, M. Alioto, “Visual Content-Agnostic Novelty Detection Engine with 2.4 pJ/pixel Energy and Two-Order of Magnitude DNN Activity Reduction in 40 nm,” in Proc. of VLSI Symposium 2023, Kyoto (Japan), June 2023
27	Kehong Gong, Dongze Lian, Heng Chang, Chuan Guo, Zihang Jiang, Xinxin Zuo, Michael Bi Mi, Xinchao Wang, “TM2D: Bimodality Driven 3D Dance Generation via Music-Text Integration”

Demos and public materials

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Talks

1	Neural Epitome Search for Architecture-Agnostic Network Compression, Presentation at ICLR conference on 25/04/2020
2	Survival of the fittest: circuits and architectures for computation with ultra-wide power-performance adaptation beyond voltage scaling – keynote speech at the IEEE S3S 2019 conference, Oct 16, 2019, San Jose (USA)
3	Survival of the fittest: circuits and architectures with wide power-performance adaptation – Beyond voltage scaling and down to pWs – keynote speech at the IEEE MCSoC 2019 conference, Oct 1, 2019, Singapore
4	Survival of the fittest: circuits and architectures with wide power-performance adaptation beyond voltage scaling – keynote speech at the IEEE SOCC 2019 conference, Sept 3, 2019, Singapore
5	Energy-Quality Scalable Integrated Systems – Preserving Energy Downscaling in the Decade Ahead – keynote speech at the IEEE SigTelCom 2019 conference, March 20, 2019, Hanoi (Vietnam)
6	Widely-Adaptive Intelligent & Connected Systems for Nearly-Unstoppable Operation under Highly Uncertain Power Availability
7	From Less Batteries to Battery-Less SoCs with Nearly-Unstoppable Operation – Towards a Greener and Smarter World – keynote speech at the IEEE ISOCC 2020 conference, Oct. 22, 2020, Yeosu (Korea)
8	Always-On Sensor Nodes Entirely Powered by Sustainable Energy Sources – Enabling a Smarter and Greener World – keynote speech at the IEEE iSES 2020 conference, Dec 14, 2020, Chennai (India)
9	Widely-Adaptive Intelligent&Connected Systems for Nearly-Unstoppable Operation under Highly Uncertain Power Availability – keynote speech at the IEEE ICCE 2021 conference, Jan 13, 2021, Phu Quoc Island (Vietnam)
10	Always-On Sensor Nodes Entirely Powered by Sustainable Energy Sources – Enabling a Smarter and Greener World – keynote speech at the Renewable Energy and Power Engineering conference, Nov 9-11, 2021, Beijing
11	Intelligent Systems with Ultra-Wide Power-Performance Adaptation – Going Well beyond the Diminishing Returns of Voltage Scaling, keynote speech at IEEE APCCAS and Prime Asia (Penang, Malaysia), Nov 22-26, 2021
12	2019 International Workshop on Advanced Chip Microsystems
13	13th IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON 2019)
14	Circuits and Highly Energy-Efficient Processing for Sensor Data Sensemaking: from Near-Threshold Circuits to On-Chip Deep Learning
15	2020 International Workshop on Microwave and Microsystems
16	Circuits and Architectures for Next-Generation Attentive & Intelligent Systems