Semiconductor device measurement

Shortstop: An on-chip fast supply boosting technique

Fast boosting of supply rails is critical for near-threshold computing to overcome serial code bottlenecks. A novel supply boosting technique, called Shortstop, boosts a 3nF core in 26ns while maintaining acceptable supply voltage droops. The innate …

Circuits for silicon photonics on a “macrochip”

Recent advances in silicon photonics bring significant benefits to "macrochip" grids made of arrayed chips. Such configurations have global interconnects long enough to benefit from the high speed, low energy, and high bandwidth density of optics. In …