{"title":"A Compact, Low-Power Voltage-Gap-Based Power-On-Reset Circuit With a Programmable Trip Point for Near-VTH Computing Applications","authors":"Yoochang Kim;Inseo Son;Young-Ha Hwang","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3710478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3710478","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a compact, low-power voltage-gap-based power-on-reset (POR) circuit for near-<inline-formula> <tex-math>$V_{mathrm {TH}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> computing (NVTC) applications. The proposed POR circuit employs a configurable voltage-gap generator (VGG), a trip-point-programmable voltage-gap detector (VGD), and an active-low pulse generator (ALPG). During a power-on sequence, the VGG generates a capacitive reference voltage gap, eliminating dc current in the reference-generation path at steady state. The VGD detects the reference voltage gap and then triggers the ALPG to generate a reliable POR signal. After successful POR operation, the VGD is power-gated to further reduce the quiescent current. In addition, the proposed POR circuit is implemented only with regular-<inline-formula> <tex-math>$V_{mathrm {TH}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MOSFETs, enhancing process portability. Fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process, the prototype POR circuit supports a supply-voltage range from 0.6 V to 0.8 V and a ramp-time range from <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s to 10 ms, while occupying a compact area of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$414.7~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m<sup>2</sup>. With VGD power gating, the prototype POR circuit consumes only 5.4 nW of static power at <inline-formula> <tex-math>$V_{mathrm {DD}} =0.6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> V, demonstrating its suitability for low-power NVTC systems.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"823-827"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148626292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-Time Gesture Recognition Using Multi-Channel sEMG Signals With Spatial-Temporal Spiking Neural Network","authors":"Hongxin Li;Qian Zhong;Jingsheng Tang;Lingfeng Yan;Wei Dai;Yaru Liu;Zongtan Zhou","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3704078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3704078","url":null,"abstract":"Surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition technology has been widely used in VR/AR control and human-computer interaction (HCI). However, most existing solutions adopt sEMG armband designs, which often compromise wearing comfort. To address this, we developed an eight-channel sEMG wristband for real-time collection of wrist sEMG signals. For signal decoding, we designed a spatial-temporal spiking neural network (STSNN) to map sEMG signals in gesture categories, while reducing the computation cost. Six classes of gestures were designed, and ten subjects were recruited for experiments. The results demonstrate that our sEMG gesture recognition system achieves excellent performance, highlighting the potential of wrist-worn sEMG systems for future HCI studies.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"883-887"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148626868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An 8.3-to-21.8-GHz 7-mW LNA With Parasitic-Aware Co-Designed Interstage Triple-Coupled Transformer","authors":"Xuan Li;Zenglong Zhao;Nengxu Zhu;Fanyi Meng","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3706119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3706119","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a wideband low-power low-noise amplifier utilizing a parasitic-aware interstage triple-coupled transformer co-design method. The proposed approach addresses the coupled tradeoffs among wideband input matching, gain-bandwidth extension, noise performance, and power consumption by jointly optimizing the interstage coupled network and the first-stage parasitic feedback. Based on this method, a current-reuse broadband LNA is implemented in a 65-nm SOI CMOS process. The measured results show a peak gain of 18.4 dB, a 3-dB gain bandwidth from 8.3 to 21.8 GHz, and a minimum noise figure of 2.04 dB, with the noise figure remaining below 3.82 dB across the operating band. The circuit consumes only 7 mW from a 1.2-V supply and achieves wideband input matching and unconditional stability.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"798-802"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148627997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Highly Integrated Analog Front-End Combining Level Shifter, Programmable Gain Amplifier, and Low-Pass Filter for Automotive BMS","authors":"Xudong Chen;Weipeng He;Ning Li;Rongqing Sheng;Yajuan He;Qiang Li;Haoyu Zhuang","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3706487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3706487","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a highly integrated analog front-end (AFE) for automotive battery management systems (BMS). The proposed AFE combines level shifter (LS), programmable gain amplifier (PGA), and low-pass filter (LPF) functions into a single switched-capacitor architecture. Additionally, an offset cancellation scheme is employed to cancel the amplifier offset. Designed in a 130 nm BCD process, the proposed circuit utilizes capacitively-coupled inputs along with high-voltage (HV) switches realized with 5 V MOS devices placed in isolated N-Buried layer (NBL) pockets to handle input voltages up to 100 V. The circuit simultaneously provides programmable gain from 1 to 5 times and first-order low-pass filtering with a 1.6 kHz cutoff frequency for anti-aliasing. This three-in-one integration significantly reduces component count, system complexity, and power consumption compared to traditional cascade approaches. Designed for 125 kS/s operation, the AFE enables high-precision cell voltage monitoring with over 16-bit effective number of bits (ENOB). Operating at a 5 V supply, the AFE consumes only <inline-formula> <tex-math>$330~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>A (not including the ADC), making it a highly efficient solution for electric vehicle BMS applications.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"803-807"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148628326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cryogenic Model-Guided All-CMOS Voltage Reference and LDO for 30–298 K Operation With a 34.5 ppm/K Temperature Coefficient","authors":"Yiyao Zhu;Chang He;Zewei Wang;Fengyu Liu;Xufeng Kou","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3711906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3711906","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a cryogenic-model-guided voltage reference (VR) and low-dropout regulator (LDO) for wide-temperature operation. A cryogenic PDK calibrated with measured device data warrants design accuracy from 30 K to 298 K. The startup circuit-embedded VR employs P-type DTMOS devices to mitigate threshold-voltage upshift and achieves 0.4989 V with a trimmed temperature coefficient (TC) of 55.58 ppm/K. The LDO combines Miller compensation with a digitally trimmable tail current to stabilize the loop and preserve fast transient response, delivering 1.199 V with a trimmed TC of 34.51 ppm/K and load regulation of 0.4 mV/mA. These results establish a practical model-to-silicon design path for cryogenic power-management interfaces.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"828-832"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148627200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 505--613 GHz Radiating Source With 65 GHz 3-dB EIRP Bandwidth in 65-nm CMOS Technology","authors":"Huanting Deng;Houyi Yan;Yihan Wang;Kaizhe Guo;Dixian Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3704610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3704610","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a 0.56-THz wideband radiating source implemented in 65-nm CMOS. The stable, wideband signal generation is achieved via an oscillator-multiplier architecture with a high multiplication factor and wideband interstage matching. Broadband transformer-based matching networks are used between the amplifier and multiplier stages to preserve the bandwidth across the chain. A compact second-harmonic trap is introduced to provide a broadband low impedance at the doubler input and improve the conversion gain. An enhanced substrate-integrated-waveguide (SIW) harmonic power extractor (HPE) is employed to provide the required fundamental and third-harmonic impedances, while suppressing undesired lower-order harmonic leakage in a tripler with a large transistor size. The prototype achieves a frequency tuning range of 505–613 GHz, corresponding to a fractional bandwidth of 19.3%, and a 3-dB equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) bandwidth of 65 GHz. The maximum radiated power and EIRP are −10.4 dBm and 15.5 dBm, respectively. The chip consumes a dc power of 128.6 mW at the center operating frequency.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"793-797"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148627991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High-Spectral-Efficient Quadrature Ergodic Chaotic Parameter Modulation Based on Code Index Modulation","authors":"Ang Zhou;Shilian Wang","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3708016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3708016","url":null,"abstract":"Ergodic chaotic parameter modulation (ECPM) provides a compelling semi-coherent scheme for wireless communications by mapping information to the parameters of chaotic system. Nonetheless, its practical deployment is hindered by restricted spectral efficiency and susceptibility in transmission security. This brief proposes a novel semi-coherent transceiver architecture, termed CIM-QECPM, which combines code index modulation (CIM) with quadrature ECPM (QECPM) to enhance spectral efficiency. The chaotic parameter and the spreading code index are separately modulated. Numerical simulations confirm that CIM-QECPM effectively preserves the noise-resilient advantages of semi-coherent chaotic detection while demonstrating superiority over CIM-aided differential chaotic shift keying (CIM-DCSK) variants in terms of reliability and spectral efficiency.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 8","pages":"833-837"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148627208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Shao;ShuTong Wu;LiYi Zhang;YingDan Jiang;XiaoFei Chen
{"title":"A Low-Complexity and Fast Time-Domain I/Q Imbalance Calibration Method for Wideband Direct-Conversion Receivers","authors":"Jie Shao;ShuTong Wu;LiYi Zhang;YingDan Jiang;XiaoFei Chen","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3693887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3693887","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a hardware-efficient and fast-converging time-domain I/Q imbalance calibration method for wideband direct-conversion receivers. A dual-tone excitation scheme combined with an orthogonality-driven frequency planning strategy in a Tx–Rx loopback architecture enforces orthogonality between undesired spectral components and the desired calibration tones. Exploiting this property, imbalance responses at two frequency points are extracted per iteration. In this work, 64 samples per frequency pair are employed, corresponding to 512 samples in total, which significantly reduces calibration latency and computational complexity. The proposed method introduces minimal hardware overhead and is well suited for practical transceiver implementations. MATLAB-based simulations demonstrate an image rejection ratio (IRR) exceeding 71 dB over a 375 MHz bandwidth. Experimental results obtained on an ADRV9026-based platform achieve a statistical mean IRR exceeding 70 dB over a 315 MHz bandwidth at a 3.2 GHz carrier frequency across multiple independent trials. Compared with existing loopback-based approaches, the proposed method achieves faster parameter convergence while maintaining competitive wideband IRR performance.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 7","pages":"758-762"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148442558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoojin Jung;Sinho Lee;Jun-Soo Park;Hohyun Chae;Ho-Joon Shin;Kwanseo Park
{"title":"A 69-fJ/b/dB 28-Gb/s Baud-Rate Receiver With Weight-Adaptive Stochastic CDR in 28-nm CMOS","authors":"Yoojin Jung;Sinho Lee;Jun-Soo Park;Hohyun Chae;Ho-Joon Shin;Kwanseo Park","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3698782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3698782","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a baud-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit employing a weight-adaptive stochastic phase detector (SPD). The proposed CDR prevents the lock point drift issue observed in a sign-sign Mueller-Müller PD (SS-MMPD)-based CDR when operating with a decision feedback equalizer (DFE). By adaptively weighting the SPD, the CDR converges to an optimal lock point that maximizes the vertical eye margin while achieving a high pattern utilization of 0.78. Fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS technology, the prototype CDR operates at 28 Gb/s with a power consumption of 41.68 mW, providing an energy efficiency of 1.49 pJ/b. It achieves a bit error rate (BER) less than <inline-formula> <tex-math>$10^{-12}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 21.6-dB channel loss and a figure-of-merit (FoM) of 68.98 fJ/b/dB.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 7","pages":"688-692"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148442730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High-SNR SRAM-LUT-Based In-Memory-Computing Macro Supporting Energy-Efficient INT8 and FP8 Computation","authors":"Xinhang Zou;Yujin Wang;Luchang Lei;Wenbin Jia;Cheng Peng;Yutong An;Xuanshen Shu;Huazhong Yang;Yongpan Liu;Hongyang Jia","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2026.3693836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2026.3693836","url":null,"abstract":"Recent quantized neural networks require various dynamic ranges and resolutions to enable better inference accuracy, necessitating mixed support of energy-efficient integer and floating point computation. This work presents an SRAM look-up table (LUT) based INT8/FP8 dual mode in-memory-computing (IMC) macro which supports configurable FP8 (E4M3 and E5M2) multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation and 2:8 structural sparsity pruning. Instead of suffering either excessive overheads of shifting and alignment logic or accuracy degradation for extreme energy efficiency, this macro exploits fine-grain exponent sharing and efficient LUT-based MAC circuits to balance the two aspects. The key features are: 1) a pipelined and SNR-oriented mantissa and exponent execution circuit for FP8 multiplication; 2) a LUT-based shifter and 1-stage adder to reduce digital logic overhead in FP MAC; 3) an in-macro decoder to support 2:8 structural sparsity pruning. The silicon prototype in 28nm CMOS achieves 81.69% accuracy for DeiT-base model for ImageNet dataset in dense FP8 mode, and 76.15% accuracy for ResNet-34 model in CIFAR100 dataset in sparse FP8 mode. The 2:8 pruning provides a 31.42 TFLOPS/W peak energy efficiency and 3.56 TFLOPS/mm<sup>2</sup> peak area efficiency in sparse FP8 mode.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"73 7","pages":"723-727"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148443077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}