Harald Pretl;Ali Sabir;Zhonghao Chris Li;Sadayuki Yoshitomi;Mehdi Saligane
{"title":"SSCS PICO Chronicles: News From the Open Source Community [Society News]","authors":"Harald Pretl;Ali Sabir;Zhonghao Chris Li;Sadayuki Yoshitomi;Mehdi Saligane","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3416939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3416939","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"80-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645822","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142099765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who’s Afraid of Positive Feedback? [Shop Talk: What you didn’t Learn in School]","authors":"Chris Mangelsdorf","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419594","url":null,"abstract":"Circuit designers have a blind spot when it comes to positive feedback. We’re okay with positive feedback in things like latches and oscillators. Those aren’t supposed to be stable. But for normal control loops with positive feedback, we either believe it can’t be done or believe it shouldn’t be done. Most textbooks on circuits, and even on control theory, tend to dismiss the topic with a few sentences about growing exponentials and certain death (see \u0000<xref>Figure 1</xref>\u0000). Where did these mental roadblocks come from? Despite all the bad press, positive feedback is far more common—and useful—than you might think. So, stop cowering under your desk and let’s face this like adults.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"19-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SSCS Awards for 2024 [Society News]","authors":"Danielle Marinese","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3416941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3416941","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"85-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645520","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calibration Techniques in Phased-Locked Loops: Theoretical basis and practical applications","authors":"Salvatore Levantino","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3408714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3408714","url":null,"abstract":"Digitally assisted analog circuits are becoming the mainstream solution in modern CMOS processes as they improve circuit performance and reduce implementation costs \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000. The most representative example of digital assistance is the compensation of the nonlinearity of an analog block, which is done by applying the digital inverse of the nonlinearity at the output. However, as the digital inverse is not known a priori, it has to be estimated, and the estimation needs to adapt in the background to the environmental conditions. This is typically accomplished by relying on adaptive filtering, i.e., by closing a system-identification engine in feedback that injects a modulation at the input of the nonlinear block. This article, after reviewing the basics of both PLLs and adaptive filters, will explore the most significant calibrations adopted in PLLs.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"37-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CEDA Currents [IEEE News]","authors":"Danielle Marinese","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417769","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RoboMac Junior 2024 [Chapters]","authors":"Goce Arsov","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419291","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"96-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Soenen;Nan Sun;Carlos Tokunaga;Arijit Raychowdhury;General Chair;Samuel M. Palermo;Christophe Antoine;Fa Foster Dai
{"title":"The 45th Annual IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2024) Was Held on 21 to 24 April 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Denver, CO, USA [Conference Reports]","authors":"Eric Soenen;Nan Sun;Carlos Tokunaga;Arijit Raychowdhury;General Chair;Samuel M. Palermo;Christophe Antoine;Fa Foster Dai","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417108","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"103-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE CASS-SSCS-EDS HUST Student Branch Successfully Organizes a Photonic–Electronic Converging Chips Lecture [Chapters]","authors":"Xiangyi Zhang;Chao Wang","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3417790","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"92-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10645513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The World of Continuous Glucose Monitors [Circuits from a Systems Perspective]","authors":"Farhana Sheikh","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3419595","url":null,"abstract":"As of 2021, 537 million adults are living with diabetes: that is one person in 10. This number is expected to rise by 20% to 643 million by 2030 \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000. The rate at which the disease is spreading among the world’s population requires a new approach to management and care, and most importantly prevention. The prevalence of diabetes has seen health-care costs rise significantly over the past decade, further exasperating the issue. For example, in the United States the lifetime cost for managing one person with type one diabetes is approximately US\u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${$}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u00001.5 million, totaling a staggering US\u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${$}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u00001.5 trillion for all diabetic patients in the United States \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000. Fortunately, during the last decade there have been significant advances in diabetes prevention and management technologies, including continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), as introduced in our pilot article in our previous issue. Many doctors are now advocating for those who have not yet been diagnosed with diabetes, but may be at high risk or borderline, to start using CGMs for disease prevention, which ultimately will help save lives and health-care costs. CGMs are biosensors that measure glucose values in the subcutaneous space via a sensor that includes wireless transmission of data to a receiving device, such as a smartphone. In this article we will dive into the world of CGMs, beginning with what the system should include and relevant design constraints. We begin at the system level.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 3","pages":"27-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142045232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}