Energy-efficient near-threshold design has been proposed to increase energy efficiency across a wide range of applications. This article first provides a background motivating near-threshold and how it differs from super-threshold and subthreshold …
Several methods that eliminate timing margins by detecting and correcting transient delay errors have been proposed. These Razor-style systems replace critical flip-flops with ones that detect late arriving signals, and use architectural replay to …
We present ultra low power silicon photonic transceivers, including a 320 fJ/bit reverse biased ring modulator integrated with CMOS driver, and a 690 fJ/bit record-low power receiver with sensitivity of -18.9 dBm at 5 Gbps for bit-error-rate of …