Microelectronics Journal, Volume 45

Volume 45, Number 1, January 2014

Research Articles

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  I-Chyn Wey, Yu-Sheng Yang, Bing-Chen Wu, Chien-Chang Peng:
  A low power-delay-product and robust Isolated-DICE based SEU-tolerant latch circuit design. 1-13
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  Lei Sun, Kong-Pang Pun:
  Design considerations of calibration DAC in self-calibrated SAR A/D converters. 14-22
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  Farshad Moradi, Georgios Panagopoulos, Georgios Karakonstantis, Hooman Farkhani, Dag T. Wisland, Jens Kargaard Madsen, Hamid Mahmoodi, Kaushik Roy:
  Multi-level wordline driver for robust SRAM design in nano-scale CMOS technology. 23-34
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  Meng-Ting Hsu, Wei-Jhih Li, Yu-Tuan Hsu:
  Design of self-bias tail transistor technique for low phase noise CMOS VCO with harmonic suppression using capacitance ground. 35-42
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  Jacques Verdier, Ioan Burciu, Chafia Yahiaoui, Christian Gontrand:
  Design and measurements of a RF front-end for Bi-band simultaneous reception. 43-49
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  Francesco Centurelli, Roberto Antonio Gualano, Alessandro Trifiletti:
  A wideband amplifier topology based on positive capacitive feedback. 50-58
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  Ioannis Vourkas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis:
  Memristor-based combinational circuits: A design methodology for encoders/decoders. 59-70
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  Kaijun Song, Fulong Chen, Fan Zhang, Yong Fan:
  Synthesis and design method of bandpass-response power divider. 71-77
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  Edoardo Giomi, Luca Fanucci, Alessandro Rocchi:
  Analog-CMDA based interfaces for MEMS gyroscopes. 78-88
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  Fan-Hsiu Huang, Yue-Ming Hsin:
  A dual-gate 2nd/3rd-order subharmonic injection-locked oscillator in GaAs PHEMT. 89-94
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  Syed Iftekhar Ali, Md. Shafiqul Islam:
  A match-line dynamic energy reduction technique for high-speed ternary CAM using dual feedback sense amplifier. 95-101
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  Yuh-Shyan Hwang, Jian-Hong Shen, Jiann-Jong Chen, Ming-Ren Fan:
  A THD-reduction high-efficiency audio amplifier using inverter-based OTAs with filter-output feedback. 102-109
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  Khaldoon Abugharbieh, Yongseon Koh, Shoba Krishnan, Jitendra Mohan:
  A 33 mW 12.5 Gbps BiCMOS transmitter for high speed backplane applications. 110-118
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  Ding-Lan Shen, Hong-Wen Chen:
  A prototypical interface for deep brain stimulation. 119-125
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  Zengwei Qi, Yiqi Zhuang, Xiaoming Li, Weifeng Liu, Yongqian Du, Bo Wang:
  Full passive UHF RFID Tag with an ultra-low power, small area, high resolution temperature sensor suitable for environment monitoring. 126-131

Volume 45, Number 2, February 2014

Research Articles

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  Ravi Patel, Engin Ipek, Eby G. Friedman:
  2T-1R STT-MRAM memory cells for enhanced on/off current ratio. 133-143
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  Kumar Prasannajit Pradhan, Sushanta Kumar Mohapatra, Prasanna Kumar Sahu, Debakanta Behera:
  Impact of high-k gate dielectric on analog and RF performance of nanoscale DG-MOSFET. 144-151
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  Mattia Borgarino, Giovanni Betti Beneventi, Valerio Doga, Paolo Pavan:
  On the limitations of transimpedance amplifiers as tools for low-frequency noise characterization. 152-158
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  Mathias Ekpu, Raj S. Bhatti, Michael I. Okereke, Sabuj Mallik, Kenny C. Otiaba:
  The effect of thermal constriction on heat management in a microelectronic application. 159-166
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  Anis Souari, Amjad Gawanmeh, Sofiène Tahar, Mohamed Lassaad Ammari:
  Design and verification of a frequency domain equalizer. 167-178
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  Zia Abbas, Mauro Olivieri:
  Impact of technology scaling on leakage power in nano-scale bulk CMOS digital standard cells. 179-195
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  B. S. Sreeja:
  Low-power CMOS LC QVCO using zero-biased transistor coupling of MWCNT network-based VCO structure. 196-204
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  Fengjuan Wang, Zhangming Zhu, Yintang Yang, Xiaoxian Liu, Ruixue Ding:
  Capacitance characterization of tapered through-silicon-via considering MOS effect. 205-210
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  Taciano Perez, Ney Laert Vilar Calazans, César A. F. De Rose:
  System-level impacts of persistent main memory using a search engine. 211-216
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  Sophie Dupuis, Ludovic Noury, Nicolas Fel:
  A regular fabric design methodology for applications requiring specific layout-level design rules. 217-225
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  Hung-Chun Chien, Chih-Yen Chen:
  CMOS realization of single-resistance-controlled and variable frequency dual-mode sinusoidal oscillators employing a single DVCCTA with all-grounded passive components. 226-238
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  Bibhash Sen, Manojit Dutta, Biplab K. Sikdar:
  Efficient design of parity preserving logic in quantum-dot cellular automata targeting enhanced scalability in testing. 239-248
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  Jing Wang, Yi-xi Cai, Xin-jie Zhao, Chun Zhang:
  Thermal design and simulation of automotive headlamps using white LEDs. 249-255
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  Mohsen Hassanpourghadi, Milad Zamani, Mohammad Sharifkhani:
  A low-power low-offset dynamic comparator for analog to digital converters. 256-262

Volume 45, Number 3, March 2014

Research Articles

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  Aleksej Avramovic, Zdenka Babic, Dusan Raic, Drago Strle, Patricio Bulic:
  An approximate logarithmic squaring circuit with error compensation for DSP applications. 263-271
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  André V. Boas, Sandro A. P. Haddad, José A. Siqueira Dias:
  A CMOS fast transient response low-dropout regulator with a compact NMOS output driver. 272-276
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  Hyouk-Kyu Cha, Minkyu Je:
  A single-input dual-output 13.56 MHz CMOS AC-DC converter with comparator-driven rectifiers for implantable devices. 277-281
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  Abdullah Yesil, Yunus Babacan, Firat Kaçar:
  A new DDCC based memristor emulator circuit and its applications. 282-287
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  Sahar Sarafi, Abu Khari bin A'Ain, Javad Abbaszadeh:
  High-linear, energy-efficient and area-efficient switching algorithm for high-speed SAR ADCs. 288-296
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  Mohamed Abouzied, Hatem Osman, Ahmed Emira, Ahmed Nader Mohieldin:
  A process-tolerant out-of-band blocker rejection technique for SAW-less receivers. 297-310
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  Piotr Amrozik, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Timing characterization and constraining tool. 311-324
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  Chao Ma, Shuguo Xie, Yunfeng Jia, Guanyu Lin:
  Macromodeling of the memristor using piecewise volterra series. 325-329
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  Yong-An Li:
  Electronically tunable current-mode biquadratic filter and four-phase quadrature oscillator. 330-335
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  Haithem Ayari, Florence Azaïs, Serge Bernard, Mariane Comte, Vincent Kerzerho, Michel Renovell:
  Enhancing confidence in indirect analog/RF testing against the lack of correlation between regular parameters and indirect measurements. 336-344
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  Karama M. AL-Tamimi, Munir Ahmad Al-Absi, Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti:
  Temperature insensitive current-mode CMOS exponential function generator and its application in variable gain amplifier. 345-354

Volume 45, Number 4, April 2014

Research Articles

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  Vinod Pangracious, Emna Amouri, Zied Marrakchi, Habib Mehrez:
  Architecture level optimization of 3-dimensional tree-based FPGA. 355-366
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  Chutham Sawigun, Wannaya Ngamkham, Wouter A. Serdijn:
  A 0.5-V, 2-nW, 55-dB DR, fourth-order bandpass filter using single branch biquads: An efficient design for FoM enhancement. 367-374
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  Shao-Ku Kao:
  Frequency presetting and phase error detection technique for fast-locking phase-locked loop. 375-381
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  Zhufei Chu, Yinshui Xia, Lun-Yao Wang, Jian Wang:
  Efficient nonrectangular shaped voltage island aware floorplanning with nonrandomized searching engine. 382-393
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  Wei Wei, Jie Han, Fabrizio Lombardi:
  Robust HSPICE modeling of a single electron turnstile. 394-407
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  Yogesh Pratap, Pujarini Ghosh, Subhasis Haldar, R. S. Gupta, Mridula Gupta:
  An analytical subthreshold current modeling of cylindrical gate all around (CGAA) MOSFET incorporating the influence of device design engineering. 408-415
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  Jung-Chang Wang:
  Thermal module design and analysis of a 230 W LED illumination lamp under three incline angles. 416-423
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  Basel Halak, Teng Ma, Ximeng Wei:
  A dynamic CDMA network for multicore systems. 424-434
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  Nam-Jin Oh:
  A phase-noise reduction technique for RF CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator with a series LC resonator. 435-440
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  Vobulapuram Ramesh Kumar, Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Amalendu Patnaik:
  An accurate model for dynamic crosstalk analysis of CMOS gate driven on-chip interconnects using FDTD method. 441-448
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  Chie-In Lee, Wei-Cheng Lin, Yan-Ting Lin:
  A 2.4 GHz high output power and high efficiency power amplifier operating at inductive breakdown in CMOS technology. 449-453
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  Majed ValadBeigi, Farshad Safaei, Bahareh Pourshirazi:
  Application-aware virtual paths insertion for NOCs. 454-462
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  Gustavo A. Ruiz, Mercedes Granda:
  Efficient low-power register array with transposed access mode. 463-467
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  Yanlong Zhang, Yiqi Zhuang, Zhenrong Li, Xiaojiao Ren, Bo Wang, Kai Jing, Zengwei Qi:
  A 5-bit lumped 0.18-μm CMOS step attenuator with low insertion loss and low phase distortion in 3-22 GHz applications. 468-476
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  Xiao-liang Yang, Ying Wang, Bin Du, Cheng-Hao Yu:
  Total dose radiation effects of hybrid bulk/SOI CMOS active pixel with buried channel SOI source follower. 477-481

Volume 45, Number 5, May 2014

Editorial

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  Peter E. Raad, András Poppe:
  Thermal investigations of integrated circuits in systems at THERMINIC 2012. 483

Special Issue Articles

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  Josep Altet, José Luis González, Didac Gómez, Xavier Perpiñà, Wilfrid Claeys, Stéphane Grauby, Cédric Dufis, Miquel Vellvehí, Diego Mateo, Ferran Reverter, Stefan Dilhaire, Xavier Jordà:
  Electro-thermal characterization of a differential temperature sensor in a 65 nm CMOS IC: Applications to gain monitoring in RF amplifiers. 484-490
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  Jean-Christophe Krencker, Jean-Baptiste Kammerer, Yannick Hervé, Luc Hébrard:
  Electro-thermal high-level modeling of integrated circuits. 491-499
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  Fatemeh Kashfi, Jeff Draper:
  Thermal sensor allocation for 3DICs using three dimensional thermal sensors. 500-507
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  Ali Assy, Séverine Gomès, Patrice Chantrenne, Nicolas Pavy, Jayalakshmi Parasuraman, Xavier Kleber, Philippe Basset:
  Investigation of the thermal properties of thin solid materials at different temperature levels using a set of microresistors. 508-514
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  Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov, Mauro A. Bettiati:
  Thermoreflectance temperature measurements for optically emitting devices. 515-520
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  András Timár, Márta Rencz:
  Temperature dependent timing in standard cell designs. 521-529
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  Valerio Tenace, Sandeep Miryala, Andrea Calimera, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino:
  Row-based body-bias assignment for dynamic thermal clock-skew compensation. 530-538
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  G. A. Luiten:
  Heat spreading in a thin longitudinal fin. 539-546
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  Amirkoushyar Ziabari, Ephraim Suhir, Ali Shakouri:
  Minimizing thermally induced interfacial shearing stress in a thermoelectric module with low fractional area coverage. 547-553
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  Onoriu Puscasu, Stéphane Monfray, C. Maître, Pierre-Jean Cottinet, D. Rapisarda, Guillaume Savelli, F. Gaillard, G. Ricotti, P. Ancey, Frédéric Boeuf, Daniel Guyomar, Thomas Skotnicki:
  A disruptive technology for thermal to electrical energy conversion. 554-558

Volume 45, Number 6, June 2014

Research Articles

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  Bong Hyuk Park, Seung Hyun Jang, Philip Ostrovskyy, Jae Ho Jung:
  High-speed continuous-time band pass ΔΣ modulator for class-S systems. 559-564
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  Chana Leepattarapongpan, Toempong Phetchakul, Naritchaphan Penpondee, Puttapon Pengpad, Arckom Srihapat, Wutthinan Jeamsaksiri, Ekalak Chaowicharat, Charndet Hruanun, Amporn Poyai:
  A merged magnetotransistor for 3-axis magnetic field measurement based on carrier recombination-deflection effect. 565-573
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  P. Suveetha Dhanaselvam, N. B. Balamurugan:
  A 2D sub-threshold current model for single halo triple material surrounding gate (SHTMSG) MOSFETs. 574-577
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  Jian Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yanyan Liu:
  A fully integrated analog front-end circuit for 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags in conformance with ISO/IEC 18000-3 protocol. 578-588
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  Paolo Mantenuto, Giuseppe Ferri, Andrea De Marcellis:
  Uncalibrated automatic bridge-based CMOS integrated interfaces for wide-range resistive sensors portable applications. 589-596
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  Hadi Owlia, Parviz Keshavarzi, Abdalhossein Rezai:
  A novel digital logic implementation approach on nanocrossbar arrays using memristor-based multiplexers. 597-603
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  Hailong Yao, Qiang Gao, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Chiu-Wing Sham:
  Length matching in detailed routing for analog and mixed signal circuits. 604-612
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  Jetsdaporn Satansup, Worapong Tangsrirat:
  Compact VDTA-based current-mode electronically tunable universal filters using grounded capacitors. 613-618
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  Alessandro Magnani, Mattia Borgarino, Christophe Viallon, Thierry Parra, Gilles Jacquemod:
  A low power Ku phase locked oscillator in low cost 130 nm CMOS technology. 619-626
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  Meng-Ting Hsu, Tsung-Han Han, Yao-Yen Lee:
  Design of Sub-1 mW CMOS LC VCO based on current reused topology with Q-enhancement and body-biased technique. 627-633
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  Hung-Chun Chien:
  A current-/voltage-controlled four-slope operation square-/triangular-wave generator and a dual-mode pulse width modulation signal generator employing current-feedback operational amplifiers. 634-647
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  Kai Jing, Yiqi Zhuang, Zhenrong Li, Zhongfang Zhao, Lipeng Nie:
  A SiGe LC-ladder low noise amplifier with base resistance match, gain and noise flatness for UWB applications. 648-656
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  Di Li, Yintang Yang, Zhan Jing, Zuo-Chen Shi, Yang Liu:
  A fully integrated feedback AGC loop for ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) RF transceiver applications. 657-665
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  Santanu Sarkar, Swapna Banerjee:
  An 8-bit low power DAC with re-used distributed binary cells architecture for reconfigurable transmitters. 666-677
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  Wei-feng Lü, Ling-Iing Sun:
  Compact modeling of response time and random-dopant-fluctuation-induced variability in nanoscale CMOS inverter. 678-682
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  Kai Jing, Yiqi Zhuang, Zhenrong Li, Yongqian Du, Yanlong Zhang:
  A SiGe HBT low noise amplifier using on-chip notch filter for K band wireless communication. 683-689
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  Yao Xin, Will X. Y. Li, Ray C. C. Cheung, Rosa H. M. Chan, Hong Yan, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger:
  An FPGA based scalable architecture of a stochastic state point process filter (SSPPF) to track the nonlinear dynamics underlying neural spiking. 690-701
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  M.-Dolores Cubells-Beltrán, Càndid Reig Escriva, Andrea De Marcellis, E. Figueras, Alberto Yufera, Boris Zadov, Eugene Paperno, Susana Cardoso, Paulo P. Freitas:
  Monolithic integration of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) devices onto standard processed CMOS dies. 702-707
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  Yanhan Zeng, Yuankun Xu, Miaowang Zeng, Hong-Zhou Tan:
  An output-capacitor-free low-dropout regulator with subthreshold slew-rate enhancement technique. 708-718
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  Chenglin Yang, Junhao Yan, Bing Long, Zhen Liu:
  A novel test optimizing algorithm for sequential fault diagnosis. 719-727
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  Ayobami Iji, Xi Zhu, Michael Heimlich:
  Heuristic receiver for implantable UWB applications. 728-733
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  Christoph Eichenseer, Gerhard Pöppel, Thomas Mikolajick:
  Localization of temperature sensitive areas on analog circuits. 734-739
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  Ebrahim Abiri, Mohammad Reza Salehi, Sanaz Salem:
  A low phase noise and low power 3-5 GHz frequency synthesizer in 0.18 µm CMOS technology. 740-750
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  Na Zhang, Huaxi Gu, Yintang Yang, Dongrui Fan:
  QBNoC: QoS-aware bufferless NoC architecture. 751-758
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  Huixiang Huang, Dawei Bi, Zhengxuan Zhang:
  Investigation of the total dose response of partially depleted SOI nMOSFETs using TCAD simulation and experiment. 759-766
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  Qing Wang, Ning Chen, Shen Xu, Weifeng Sun, Longxing Shi:
  Trajectory prediction control for digital control DC-DC converters with fast transient response. 767-774
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  Amin Malekpour, Alireza Ejlali, Saeid Gorgin:
  A comparative study of energy/power consumption in parallel decimal multipliers. 775-780
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  Hourieh Attarzadeh, Mohammad Sharifkhani:
  An auto-calibrated, dual-mode SRAM macro using a hybrid offset-cancelled sense amplifier. 781-792
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  Xiaopeng Liu, Yan Han, Xiaoxia Han, Mingyu Wang:
  An all-digital coherent-like BFSK demodulator. 793-798
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  Nicola Petra, Davide De Caro, Valeria Garofalo, Ettore Napoli, Antonio G. M. Strollo:
  Truncated squarer with minimum mean-square error. 799-804
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  Predrag Bosko Petrovic:
  A new tunable current-mode peak detector. 805-814
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  Liang Wen, Zhikui Duan, Yi Li, Xiaoyang Zeng:
  Analysis of a read disturb-free 9T SRAM cell with bit-interleaving capability. 815-824
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  Saurabh Kotiyal, Himanshu Thapliyal, Nagarajan Ranganathan:
  Efficient reversible NOR gates and their mapping in optical computing domain. 825-834

Volume 45, Number 7, July 2014

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  Shao-Ku Kao, Yi-Fu Tang, Hsiang-Chi Cheng:
  A VCO-based phase-expanding conversion designed for time-domain data converters. 835-841
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  Ye Zhang, Ralf Wunderlich, Stefan Heinen:
  A low-complexity low-spurs digital architecture for wideband PLL applications. 842-847
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  Deepon Saha, Subir Kumar Sarkar:
  High-speed reduced-leakage SRAM memory cell design techniques for low-power 65 nm FD-SOI/SON CMOS technology. 848-856
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  Ji-Zhong Shen, Liang Geng, Guang-Ping Xiang, Jianwei Liang:
  Low-power level converting flip-flop with a conditional clock technique in dual supply systems. 857-863
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  Marco Pirola, Roberto Quaglia, Giovanni Ghione, Walter Ciccognani, Ernesto Limiti:
  13-bit GaAs serial-to-parallel converter with compact layout for core-chip applications. 864-869
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  Reza Omidi Gosheblagh, Karim Mohammadi:
  Hybrid time and hardware redundancy to mitigate SEU effects on SRAM-FPGAs: Case study over the MicroLAN protocol. 870-879
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  Zhangming Zhu, Minjie Liu, Qiyu Wang, Yintang Yang:
  A single-channel 8-bit 660 MS/s asynchronous SAR ADC with pre-settling procedure in 65 nm CMOS. 880-885
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  Seong Jong Cheon, Jae Yeong Park:
  A highly miniaturized LTCC dual-band UWB filter using independent transmission zeros and lowpass filters. 886-892
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  Faouzi Kahlouche, Khamis Youssouf, Mahamat Hassan Béchir, Stéphane Capraro, Ali Siblini, Jean-Pierre Chatelon, Cyril Buttay, Jean Jacques Rousseau:
  Fabrication and characterization of a planar interleaved micro-transformer with magnetic core. 893-897
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  Haikun Jia, Baoyong Chi, Lixue Kuang, Zhihua Wang:
  A 77 GHz FMCW radar transmitter with reconfigurable power amplifier in 65 nm CMOS. 898-903
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  Jui-Ching Hsieh, David T. W. Lin, Chin-Hsiang Cheng, Siwapong Kingkaew, Sheng-Chung Chen:
  The optimal design of the thermal spreading on high power LEDs. 904-909
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  Andrea De Marcellis, Giuseppe Ferri, Paolo Mantenuto, Alessandro Depari, Alessandra Flammini, Emiliano Sisinni:
  A new 0.35 μm CMOS electronic interface for wide range floating capacitive and grounded/floating resistive sensor applications. 910-920
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  Abolfazl Zokaei, Amir Amirabadi:
  A 0.13μm dual-band common-gate LNA using active post distortion for mobile WiMAX. 921-929

Special Section on Nanotech 2013

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  Bernard Courtois:
  Special Section NANOTECH 2013. 930

Special Issue Articles

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  Mariusz Jankowski, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Current-controlled switches for HV SoI processes. 931-945
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  Mariusz Jankowski, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Current-mode signal processing implementation in HV SoI integrated systems. 946-959
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  Michal Szermer, Marcin Janicki, Piotr Zajac, Lukasz Kotynia, Mariusz Jankowski, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Dedicated thermal emulator for analysis of thermal coupling in many-core processors. 960-965
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  Balamurugan Karunamurthy, Thomas Ostermann, Monojit Bhattacharya, Sandipan Maity:
  A novel simulation methodology for full chip-package thermo-mechanical reliability investigations. 966-971
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  B. S. Pês, J. G. Guimarães, José C. da Costa:
  Nanoelectronic SET-based core for network-on-chip architectures. 972-975
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  Tomi Roinila, Hongjiang Zeng, Jarmo Verho, Yu Xiao, Matti Vilkko, Pasi Kallio, Jukka Lekkala, Tie Li, Yuelin Wang:
  Measuring resistivity of silicon nanowire using pseudo-random binary sequence injection. 976-980
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  Grzegorz Janczyk, Tomasz Bieniek, Jerzy Wasowski, Piotr Grabiec:
  Investigation on reliability of interconnects in 3D heterogeneous systems by ageing beam resonance method. 981-987

Volume 45, Number 8, August 2014

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  Kanagasabapathi Somasundaram, Juha Plosila, Nallasamy Viswanathan:
  Deadlock free routing algorithm for minimizing congestion in a Hamiltonian connected recursive 3D-NoCs. 989-1000
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  Neeta Pandey, Kirti Gupta, Maneesha Gupta:
  An efficient triple-tail cell based PFSCL D latch. 1001-1007
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  Mohammad Bagheri, Ahmad Ghanaatian, Adib Abrishamifar, Mahmoud Kamarei:
  A cross coupled low phase noise oscillator using an output swing enhancement technique. 1008-1013
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  Reza Rezaeian Farashahi, Bahram Rashidi, Sayed Masoud Sayedi:
  FPGA based fast and high-throughput 2-slow retiming 128-bit AES encryption algorithm. 1014-1025
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  Hooman Rashtian, Amir Hossein Masnadi Shirazi, Shahriar Mirabbasi:
  On the use of body biasing to improve linearity in low LO-power CMOS active mixers. 1026-1032
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  Yabin Zhang, Paolo Emilio Bagnoli:
  A modeling methodology for thermal analysis of the PCB structure. 1033-1052
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  Joan Font, Eugeni Isern, Miquel Roca, Rodrigo Picos, Eugenio García-Moreno:
  A new on-line bandwidth tuning approach for biquad OTA-C filters. 1053-1060
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  Christian Gontrand, Fengyuan Sun, José Ricardo Cárdenas-Valdez, Yue Ma, Carole Plossu, Françis Calmon, José-Cruz Nuñez Perez, Jacques Verdier:
  3D substrate modeling; from a first order electrical analysis, towards some possible signal fluctuations consideration, for radio frequency circuits. 1061-1068
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  Craig E. Green, Andrei G. Fedorov, Yogendra K. Joshi:
  Time scale matching of dynamically operated devices using composite thermal capacitors. 1069-1078
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  Hadi Bameri, H. Abdollahi, Ahmad Hakimi:
  A comprehensive, adjustable approach for linearizing and broadening the gain characteristic of variable gain amplifiers. 1079-1086
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  Rutu Parekh, Jacques Beauvais, Dominique Drouin:
  SET logic driving capability and its enhancement in 3-D integrated SET-CMOS circuit. 1087-1092
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  Amrita Chakraborty, Bhaskar Gupta, Binay Kumar Sarkar:
  Design, fabrication and characterization of miniature RF MEMS switched capacitor based phase shifter. 1093-1102
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  Hao Shu, Peijun Ma, Jiangyi Shi, Zhao Xu, Lin-An Yang:
  SRNoC: A novel high performance Shared-Resource routing scheme for Network-on-Chip. 1103-1117
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  Bianca Maria Matos de Alencar Braga, Janaina Gonçalves Guimarães:
  Nanoelectronic content-addressable memory. 1118-1124
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  Hailong Jiao, Volkan Kursun:
  Mode transition timing and energy overhead analysis in noise-aware MTCMOS circuits. 1125-1131
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  Nikhil Raj, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Anil Kumar Gupta:
  Low power high output impedance high bandwidth QFGMOS current mirror. 1132-1142

Volume 45, Number 9, September 2014

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Editorial

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  Andrzej Napieralski:
  Introduction to the special issue on the MIXDES 2013. 1143

Special Issue Articles

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  Michael Graef, Thomas Holtij, Franziska Hain, Alexander Kloes, Benjamín Iñíguez:
  A 2D closed form model for the electrostatics in hetero-junction double-gate tunnel-FETs for calculation of band-to-band tunneling current. 1144-1153
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  Piotr Otfinowski, Pawel Grybos:
  A 7-bit 500 kS/s 1 V micro-power SAR A/D converter for pixel systems. 1154-1158
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  Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki, Christian C. Enz:
  Accurate RF modeling of nanoscale MOSFET using BSIM6 including low levels of inversion. 1159-1167
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  Pawel Kopyt, Przemyslaw Zagrajek, J. Marczewski, Krzysztof Kucharski, B. Salski, Jerzy Lusakowski, Wojciech Knap, Wojciech Gwarek:
  Analysis of sub-THz radiation detector built of planar antenna integrated with MOSFET. 1168-1176
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  Ireneusz Brzozowski, Andrzej Kos:
  Designing of low-power data oriented adders. 1177-1186
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  Piotr Kmon:
  Digitally assisted neural recording and spike detection multichannel integrated circuit designed in 180 nm CMOS technology. 1187-1193
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  Maria-Alexandra Paun, Jean-Michel Sallese, Maher Kayal:
  Evaluation of characteristic parameters for high performance hall cells. 1194-1201
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  Jacek Jasielski, Stanislaw W. Kuta, Witold Machowski, Wojciech Kolodziejski:
  Hybrid DPWM implementation using coarse and fine programmable ADLL. 1202-1211
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  Dominik Kasprowicz, Hilekaan Wada:
  Methods for automated detection of plagiarism in integrated-circuit layouts. 1212-1219
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  Thomas Holtij, Michael Graef, Alexander Kloes, Benjamín Iñíguez:
  Modeling and performance study of nanoscale double gate junctionless and inversion mode MOSFETs including carrier quantization effects. 1220-1225
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  Miroslaw Zoladz, Piotr Kmon, Jacek Rauza, Pawel Grybos, Tomasz Blasiak:
  Multichannel neural recording system based on family ASICs processed in submicron technology. 1226-1231

Volume 45, Number 10, October 2014

DCIS'12 Special Issue

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  Serge Bernard, Patrick Garda, Michel Renovell:
  Editorial. 1233
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  J. Gerardo García-Sánchez, José M. de la Rosa:
  Efficient hybrid continuous-time/discrete-time cascade ΣΔ modulators for wideband applications. 1234-1246
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  Juan A. Montiel-Nelson, Victor Navarro-Botello, Javier Sosa, Tomás Bautista:
  Analysis and optimization of dynamically reconfigurable regenerative comparators for ultra-low power 6-bit TC-ADCs in 90 nm CMOS technologies. 1247-1253
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  Abilio Parreira, Floriberto A. Lima, Marcelino B. Santos:
  Digital modular control of high frequency DC-DC converters. 1254-1260
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  Fermin Esparza-Alfaro, Antonio J. López-Martín, Ramón González Carvajal, Jaime Ramírez-Angulo:
  Highly linear micropower class AB current mirrors using Quasi-Floating Gate transistors. 1261-1267
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  J. M. Hinojo, Clara Isabel Luján-Martínez, Antonio Torralba, Jaime Ramírez-Angulo:
  Internally compensated LDO regulator based on the cascoded FVF. 1268-1274
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  Matthias Völker, Johann Hauer, José María Benlloch, Antonio Soriano-Asensi, Filomeno Sánchez, Jorge Carrascal, Jose-Manuel Cela, Luciano Romero:
  144 Channel measurement IC for CdZnTe sensors with energy and time resolution. 1275-1280
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  Héctor Posadas, Pablo Peñil, Alejandro Nicolás, Eugenio Villar:
  Automatic synthesis of embedded SW for evaluating physical implementation alternatives from UML/MARTE models supporting memory space separation. 1281-1291
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  Teresa Cervero, Sebastián López, Gustavo M. Callicó, José Francisco López, Roberto Sarmiento:
  Scalable architectures for real-time hyperspectral unmixing. 1292-1303
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  Ana Cinta Oria, Patricio López, José García Doblado, Darío Pérez-Calderón, Vicente Baena:
  L1 signaling mobility performance in the DVB-T2 receivers intercarrier interference cancellation method applied to L1 signaling. 1304-1310
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  Marta Turrillas, Ainhoa Cortés, Igone Vélez, Juan F. Sevillano, Andoni Irizar:
  An area-efficient Radix 2⁸ FFT algorithm for DVB-T2 receivers. 1311-1318
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  Juan Antonio Gómez Galán, Manuel Sanchez-Raya, Rafael López-Ahumada, Trinidad Sanchez-Rodriguez, Ismael Martel Bravo, Raúl Jiménez-Naharro:
  Low power low noise high speed tunable CMOS radiation detection system. 1319-1326
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  Chang-Chih Chen, Muhammad Bashir, Linda S. Milor, Daehyun Kim, Sung Kyu Lim:
  Simulation of system backend dielectric reliability. 1327-1334
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  Dmitry Burlyaev, René van Leuken:
  System fault-tolerance analysis of COTS-based satellite on-board computers. 1335-1341
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  Esteve Amat, Carmen G. Almudéver, Nivard Aymerich, Ramon Canal, Antonio Rubio:
  Strategies to enhance the 3T1D-DRAM cell variability robustness beyond 22 nm. 1342-1347
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  Elena I. Vatajelu, Álvaro Gómez-Pau, Michel Renovell, Joan Figueras:
  Sram cell stability metric under transient voltage noise. 1348-1353
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  M. Arévalo-Garbayo, Marta Portela-García, Mario García-Valderas, Celia López-Ongil, Luis Entrena:
  A method to assess the robustness of cryptographic circuits at the design stage. 1354-1360

Volume 45, Number 11, November 2014

Special Section on Computational Structures and Methods with Memristive Devices and Systems

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  Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Eero Lehtonen:
  Computational structures and methods with memristive devices and systems. 1361-1362

Special issue articles

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  Panayiotis S. Georgiou, Mauricio Barahona, Sophia N. Yaliraki, Emmanuel M. Drakakis:
  On memristor ideality and reciprocity. 1363-1371
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  Mohamed E. Fouda, Ahmed Gomaa Radwan:
  Memcapacitor response under step and sinusoidal voltage excitations. 1372-1379
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  Ioannis Vourkas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis:
  On the generalization of composite memristive network structures for computational analog/digital circuits and systems. 1380-1391
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  Mohamed T. Ghoneim, Mohammed Affan Zidan, Khaled Nabil Salama, Muhammad Mustafa Hussain:
  Towards neuromorphic electronics: Memristors on foldable silicon fabric. 1392-1395
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  Alice Dimonte, Tatiana Berzina, Maura Pavesi, Victor Erokhin:
  Hysteresis loop and cross-talk of organic memristive devices. 1396-1400
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  Ella Gale, Ben de Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky:
  Emergent spiking in non-ideal memristor networks. 1401-1415
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  S. Ferch, Eike Linn, Rainer Waser, Stephan Menzel:
  Simulation and comparison of two sequential logic-in-memory approaches using a dynamic electrochemical metallization cell model. 1416-1428
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  Yifat Levy, Jehoshua Bruck, Yuval Cassuto, Eby G. Friedman, Avinoam Kolodny, Eitan Yaakobi, Shahar Kvatinsky:
  Logic operations in memory using a memristive Akers array. 1429-1437
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  Eero Lehtonen, Jari Tissari, Jussi H. Poikonen, Mika Laiho, Lauri Koskinen:
  A cellular computing architecture for parallel memristive stateful logic. 1438-1449
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  Mohammad Bavandpour, Saeed Bagheri Shouraki, Hamid Soleimani, Arash Ahmadi, Bernabé Linares-Barranco:
  Spiking neuro-fuzzy clustering system and its memristor crossbar based implementation. 1450-1462

Research Articles

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  Meng-Ting Hsu, Yu-Hsien Lin, Yang Jing-Cheng:
  Low power high gain CMOS LNA based on inverter cell and self-body bias for UWB receivers. 1463-1469
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  Alberto A. Del Barrio, Román Hermida, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Jose Manuel Mendias, María C. Molina:
  Improving circuit performance with multispeculative additive trees in high-level synthesis. 1470-1479
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  Hai Huang, Liyi Xiao:
  CORDIC based fast algorithm for power-of-two point DCT and its efficient VLSI implementation. 1480-1488
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  Michaelraj Kingston Roberts, Ramesh Jayabalan:
  An area efficient and high throughput multi-rate quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder for IEEE 802.11n applications. 1489-1498
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  Carlos Fernando Teodósio Soares, Gustavo S. de Moraes, Antonio Petraglia:
  A low-transconductance OTA with improved linearity suitable for low-frequency Gm-C filters. 1499-1507
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  Manoj Kumar, Subhasis Haldar, Mridula Gupta, R. S. Gupta:
  Impact of gate material engineering(GME) on analog/RF performance of nanowire Schottky-barrier gate all around (GAA) MOSFET for low power wireless applications: 3D T-CAD simulation. 1508-1514
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  Abhishek Mishra, Kamal Kishor Jha, Manisha Pattanaik:
  Parameter variation aware hybrid TFET-CMOS based power gating technique with a temperature variation tolerant sleep mode. 1515-1521
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  Bibhash Sen, Manojit Dutta, Mrinal Goswami, Biplab K. Sikdar:
  Modular Design of testable reversible ALU by QCA multiplexer with increase in programmability. 1522-1532
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  Morteza Gholipour, Nasser Masoumi:
  Graphene nanoribbon crossbar architecture for low power and dense circuit implementations. 1533-1541
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  Xianlei Xu, Suping Peng, Yunhai Xia, Wanjun Ji:
  The development of a multi-channel GPR system for roadbed damage detection. 1542-1555
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  Hooman Farkhani, Ali Peiravi, Farshad Moradi:
  A new asymmetric 6T SRAM cell with a write assist technique in 65 nm CMOS technology. 1556-1565
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  André Augusto Mariano, Bernardo Leite, Thierry Taris, Jean-Baptiste Bégueret:
  Co-design of a wideband double-balanced active mixer and transformer-based baluns for 77 GHz radar applications. 1566-1574
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  Sid-Ahmed Tedjini-Bailiche, Mohamed Trabelsi, Abdelhalim Slimane, Mohand-Tahar Belaroussi, Fayrouz Haddad, Sylvain Bourdel:
  Ultra low power and high gain switched CMOS gm-boosted current reused mixer for wireless multi-standard applications. 1575-1582

Volume 45, Number 12, December 2014

Special Section on 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces 2013 (IWASI 2013)

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  Daniela De Venuto:
  Editorial of the Special Issue of Microelectronics Journal on the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces 2013 (IWASI 2013). 1583-1584

Special Issue Articles

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  Daniela De Venuto, Jan M. Rabaey:
  RFID transceiver for wireless powering brain implanted microelectrodes and backscattered neural data collection. 1585-1594
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  Gürkan Yilmaz, Catherine Dehollain:
  Single frequency wireless power transfer and full-duplex communication system for intracranial epilepsy monitoring. 1595-1602
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  Hans-Peter Brückner, Benjamin Krüger, Holger Blume:
  Reliable orientation estimation for mobile motion capturing in medical rehabilitation sessions based on inertial measurement units. 1603-1611
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  Daniele Raiteri, Arthur H. M. van Roermund, Eugenio Cantatore:
  A discrete-time amplifier based on Thin-Film Trans-Capacitors for sensor systems on foil. 1612-1620
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  Abdelkader Aliane, Vincent Fischer, M. Galliari, L. Tournon, Romain Gwoziecki, Christophe Serbutoviez, Isabelle Chartier, Romain Coppard:
  Enhanced printed temperature sensors on flexible substrate. 1621-1626
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  Michele Magno, Stevan Jovica Marinkovic, Bruno Srbinovski, Emanuel M. Popovici:
  Wake-up radio receiver based power minimization techniques for wireless sensor networks: A review. 1627-1633
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  Seyed Alireza Ghorashi, Amir Hossein Alinoori, Saeed Hajialigol:
  Signal-to-noise enhancement in TSSI-GC-IMS: Development of two dimensional sensor for detection of chemicals. 1634-1640
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  Jelle Van Rethy, Hans Danneels, Georges G. E. Gielen:
  Scalable Bang-Bang Phase-Locked-Loop-based integrated sensor interfaces. 1641-1647
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  Christian Kauth, Marc Pastre, Maher Kayal:
  A novel approach to high-speed high-resolution on-chip mass sensing. 1648-1655
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  Michele Magno, Christian Spagnol, Luca Benini, Emanuel M. Popovici:
  A low power wireless node for contact and contactless heart monitoring. 1656-1664
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  Davide Brunelli, Maurizio Rossi:
  Enhancing lifetime of WSN for natural gas leakages detection. 1665-1670
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  Danilo Porcarelli, Davide Brunelli, Luca Benini:
  Clamp-and-Forget: A self-sustainable non-invasive wireless sensor node for smart metering applications. 1671-1678
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  Liviu Mihai Dumitru, Kyriaki Manoli, Maria Magliulo, Gerardo Palazzo, Luisa Torsi:
  Low-voltage solid electrolyte-gated OFETs for gas sensing applications. 1679-1683
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  Davide Caputo, Giampiero de Cesare, N. Lo Vecchio, Augusto Nascetti, Emanuele Parisi, Riccardo Scipinotti:
  Polydimethylsiloxane material as hydrophobic and insulating layer in electrowetting-on-dielectric systems. 1684-1690
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  G. De Pascali, D. Melisi, M. Valentini, Antonio Valentini, M. A. Nitti, Roberto Nasi, Giuseppe Casamassima, Paolo Francesco Ambrico, A. Cardone:
  Spray deposited carbon nanotubes for organic vapor sensors. 1691-1694
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  Federico Pittino, Federico Passerini, Luca Selmi, Frans Widdershoven:
  Numerical simulation of the position and orientation effects on the impedance response of nanoelectrode array biosensors to DNA and PNA strands. 1695-1700
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  Marco Grossi, Giuseppe Di Lecce, Tullia Gallina Toschi, Bruno Riccò:
  A novel electrochemical method for olive oil acidity determination. 1701-1707

Special section on Thermal investigations of ICs and systems at THERMINIC 2013

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  Márta Rencz:
  To the special issue from the selected papers of thermal investigations of integrated circuits and systems, THERMINIC'13. 1708-1709

Special Issue Articles

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  Balázs Plesz, András Vass-Várnai:
  Characterization of solar cells by thermal transient testing. 1710-1715
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  Thomas Dannerbauer, Thomas Zahner:
  Inline R_th control: Short time thermal transient evaluation for high power LEDs. 1716-1720
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  Marcin Janicki, Zoltán Sárkány, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Impact of nonlinearities on electronic device transient thermal responses. 1721-1725
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  P. Anithambigai, S. Shanmugan, D. Mutharasu, T. Zahner, D. Lacey:
  Study on thermal performance of high power LED employing aluminum filled epoxy composite as thermal interface material. 1726-1733
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  Maciej Kubicki, Miroslaw Malinski:
  The thermoacoustic method of determination of the air-tightness of metal transistors' packagings. 1734-1739
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  Gábor Takács, Péter G. Szabó, Balázs Plesz, György Bognár:
  Improved thermal characterization method of integrated microscale heat sinks. 1740-1745
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  F. L. T. Maggioni, Herman Oprins, Eric Beyne, Ingrid De Wolf, Martine Baelmans:
  Fast convolution based thermal model for 3D-ICs: Methodology, accuracy analysis and package impact. 1746-1752
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  Pawel Weber, Maciej Zagrabski, Bartosz Wojciechowski, Maciej Nikodem, Krzysztof Kepa, Krzysztof S. Berezowski:
  Calibration of RO-based temperature sensors for a toolset for measuring thermal behavior of FPGA devices. 1753-1763
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  Lorenzo Codecasa:
  Nonlinear dynamic compact thermal models by structure-preserving projection. 1764-1769
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  Lorenzo Codecasa, Luca di Rienzo:
  Compact thermal models for stochastic thermal analysis. 1770-1776
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  Lorenzo Codecasa:
  Compact electro-thermal models of interconnects. 1777-1785
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  Ferenc Ender, Márton Németh, Péter Pálovics, Andras Drozdy, András Poppe:
  Thermal compact modeling approach of droplet microreactor based Lab-on-a-Chip devices. 1786-1794
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  Krzysztof Górecki, Malgorzata Rogalska:
  The compact thermal model of the pulse transformer. 1795-1799
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  Mohamed Ali Belaïd, Ahmed M. Nahhas, M. Gares, K. Daoud, Olivier Latry:
  Leakage current effects on N-MOSFETs after thermal ageing in pulsed life tests. 1800-1805
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  Piotr Zajac, Marcin Janicki, Michal Szermer, Andrzej Napieralski:
  Evaluating the impact of scaling on temperature in FinFET-technology multicore processors. 1806-1813
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  Zhimin Wan, He Xiao, Yogendra Joshi, Sudhakar Yalamanchili:
  Co-design of multicore architectures and microfluidic cooling for 3D stacked ICs. 1814-1821
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  Ferenc Biró, Csaba Dücso, Zoltán Hajnal, Ferenc Riesz, Andrea Edit Pap, István Bársony:
  Thermo-mechanical design and characterization of low dissipation micro-hotplates operated above 500 °C. 1822-1828
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  J. H. Yu, Giovanni Cennini:
  Improving thermal conductivity of polymer composites in embedded LEDs systems. 1829-1833