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Slew-Driven Clock Tree Synthesis
PAGE TITLE Slew-Driven Clock Tree Synthesis PAGE SUMMARY Reduction in power consumption without sacrificing processing speed is increasingly important objective in integrated circuit design nowadays. Power distribution of the clock net contributes a large fraction of the total power consumption. Thus, the generation and distribution of this clock signal...
Published: 5/19/2022   |   Inventor(s): Baris Taskin, Ahmet (can) Sitik, Emre Salman, Weicheng Liu
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Category(s): Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Clock, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Electronic Components, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design
Reduced Overhead Gate Level Logic Encryption
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY Integrated Circuits (ICs), which serve as the keystone of modern electronic devices, are increasingly vulnerable to third party tampering due to the industry’s increasing reliance on untrusted third-party foundries in the IC design flow. The result is a growing concern of IC reliability and security, with threats...
Published: 5/19/2022   |   Inventor(s): Ioannis Savidis, Kyle Juretus
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Category(s): Communications & Cybersecurity, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Communications & Cybersecurity > Comm: Obfuscation
Methods and Computer-Readable Media for Synthesizing a Multi-Corner Mesh-Based Clock Distribution Network for Multi-Voltage Domain and Clock Meshes and Integrated Circuits
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY One aspect of the invention provides a including: (a) placing N×N max size buffers at an (n−1)st level of one of the voltage domains i until a maximum slew slewmax within the voltage domain i exceeds a defined slew threshold; (b) calculating maximum insertion delay values for all cases for each of the voltage...
Published: 7/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Baris Taskin, Ahmet (can) Sitik
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Category(s): Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Clock, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Electronic Components
TSV based on-chip antennas
PAGE TITLEA Novel Wireless On-Chip Interconnect System PAGE SUMMARY Current commercial systems-on-chips (SoC) integrate an increasingly large number of predesigned cores and their number is predicted to increase significantly in the near future. In order to scale future many core chips to hundreds or even thousands of cores, new and sophisticated...
Published: 11/24/2020   |   Inventor(s): Baris Taskin, Vasil Pano, Ibrahim Tekin, Kapil Dandekar, Yuqiao Liu
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Category(s): Communications & Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Antennas, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Superconductors, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Circuits, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Components, Communications & Cybersecurity > Comm: Antennas
Smart Grid on Chip: Work Load Balanced On-Chip Power Delivery
PAGE TITLE Dynamic Power Management Scheme Through Swarm Intelligence PAGE SUMMARYAs the proliferation of ubiquitous computing environments becomes a reality, the need for high speed data processing and intelligent system management increases rapidly. In particular, the need for low-power designs and power-aware system management is getting stronger....
Published: 1/5/2024   |   Inventor(s): Ioannis Savidis, Divya Pathak
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Category(s): Communications & Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Circuits, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Semiconductors, Communications & Cybersecurity > Comm: Obfuscation
On-chip power supply noise suppression through hyperabrupt junction varactors
PAGE TITLE On-Chip Power Supply Noise Suppression Through Hyperabrupt Junction Varactors PAGE SUMMARY Power supply noise management continues to be a challenge with the scaling of CMOS technologies. The increasing power density and, therefore, current consumption of high-performance ICs, results in increased challenges in the design of a reliable...
Published: 11/24/2020   |   Inventor(s): Ioannis Savidis, Divya Pathak
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Circuits, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Semiconductors
Protecting Analog Circuits with Parameter Biasing Obfuscation
PAGE TITLE Protecting Analog Circuits with Parameter Biasing Obfuscation PAGE SUMMARY As the electronic component supply chain grows more complex due to globalization, with parts coming from a diverse set of suppliers, counterfeit electronics have become a major challenge that calls for immediate solutions. The need for protection of chip technologies...
Published: 5/19/2022   |   Inventor(s): Ioannis Savidis, Vaibhav Venugopal Rao, Kyle Juretus
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Category(s): Communications & Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Electronic Components, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Electrical Engineering & Electronics > EE: Circuits, Communications & Cybersecurity > Comm: Obfuscation
Enhanced circuit security through hidden state transitions
PAGE TITLE Enhanced Circuit Security Through Hidden State Transitions PAGE SUMMARY Because of the globalization of manufacturing process, integrated circuits (ICs) have become increasingly vulnerable to Counterfeiting and Intellectual Property theft. The consequences can be dramatic when critical systems begin to fail due to the use of counterfeit...
Published: 6/20/2024   |   Inventor(s): Ioannis Savidis, Kyle Juretus
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Category(s): Communications & Cybersecurity, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Communications & Cybersecurity > Comm: Obfuscation
Resonant Frequency Divider Design Methodology for Dynamic Frequency Scaling
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARYMaking electronics last longer is a major goal for all electronic device manufacturers, from wearable and medical electronics to computer processors and the world’s fastest supercomputers. There are many design knobs that elongate battery life including display technology, energy storage technology and integrated...
Published: 7/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Baris Taskin, Ying Teng
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Category(s): Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Clock, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Electronic Components, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design
Integrated circuit clock mesh synthesis with clock gating
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY A clock mesh network has been the preferred clock network structure for high-end microprocessor design because of its tolerance to variations. The variation tolerance is achieved by placing the redundant mesh grid wires near the sink registers, but at the cost of power dissipation. To overcome the limitations of existing...
Published: 7/12/2024   |   Inventor(s): Baris Taskin, Jianchao Lu, Xiaomi Mao
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Category(s): Hardware, Circuits & Sensors, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Clock, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Microprocessor Design, Hardware, Circuits & Sensors > Hardware: Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits