{"title":"Embedded SRAM Design in Technologies Beyond FinFET: An overview","authors":"Zheng Guo","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3702581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3702581","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of gate-all-around (GAA) technologies, the discretization of transistor width known to FinFET technologies is no longer required. This enables additional flexibility to optimize embedded memory and logic designs through extensive design technology co-optimization (DTCO). Furthermore, power supply from the backside is becoming available and opens additional design-optimization opportunities. This article presents an overview of the opportunities and challenges for embedded SRAM design in GAA and backside power delivery network (BSPDN)-enabled technologies.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"73-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781857","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":"IEEE SSCS CINVESTAV Zacatenco Student Chapter Hosts INSPIRE Program Activities [Chapters]","authors":"Gustavo Coronel Corte","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708291","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":"18 3","pages":"98-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781860","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":"SSCS Kolkata Chapter Organized Distinguished Lecture and Technical Talk [Chapters]","authors":"Joydeep Basu;Kalyan Biswas","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708329","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":"18 3","pages":"105-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659708","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781078","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":"Circuit Insights at CICC 2026 [Conference Reports]","authors":"Rozhan Rabbani","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706353","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":"18 3","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781164","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 Design of a Clock and Data Recovery Circuit [The Analog Mind]","authors":"Behzad Razavi","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3706674","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the transistor-level design of a 56-Gb/s clock and data recovery circuit. We begin with general principles related to clock recovery, introduce the Alexander phase detector, and present the overall architecture. We then summarize the simulation results in 28-nm CMOS technology.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"18 3","pages":"11-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781713","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":"New Semiconductor Design Programs With Japan’s Open Source Ecosystem [Society News]","authors":"Jun-ichi Okamura","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708432","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":"18 3","pages":"87-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659615","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781859","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 47th Annual IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference Was Held on 19–22 April 2026 at the Hyatt at Olive 8, in Seattle, WA, USA [Conference Reports]","authors":"Carlos Tokunaga;Ulkuhan Guler","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708000","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":"18 3","pages":"107-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781076","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 SSCS Young Professionals Mentoring Event at CICC 2026 [Conference Reports]","authors":"Xiyuan Tang;Ulkuhan Guler","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3707998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3707998","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":"18 3","pages":"109-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781163","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":"A Year of Distinction: IEEE SSCS Lahore Chapter’s Path to Global Recognition [Chapters]","authors":"M Qasim Mehmood;Noreen Raheem","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708328","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":"18 3","pages":"106-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659617","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781426","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}
Sadayuki Yoshitomi;D. Mitch Bailey;Harald Pretl;Peter R. Kinget;Jun-ichi Okamura;Mehdi Saligane
{"title":"From Repo to Silicon: The Chipathon: Building a new model for open, reproducible, silicon-validated IC design [Society News]","authors":"Sadayuki Yoshitomi;D. Mitch Bailey;Harald Pretl;Peter R. Kinget;Jun-ichi Okamura;Mehdi Saligane","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2026.3708527","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":"18 3","pages":"84-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11659705","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148781540","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}