Monolithic three dimensional integration of semiconductor integrated circuits

Y Du - US Patent 9,177,890, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A three-dimensional integrated circuit comprising top tier nanowire
transistors formed on a bottom tier of CMOS tran sistors, with inter-tier vias, intra-tier vias …

3D floorplanning using 2D and 3D blocks

K Samadi, SA Panth, Y Du - US Patent 9,064,077, 2015 - Google Patents
The disclosed embodiments are directed to systems and method for floorplanning an
integrated circuit design using a mix of 2D and 3D blocks that provide a significant …

Three-dimensional (3-D) integrated circuits (3DICS) with graphene shield, and related components and methods

Y Du - US Patent 9,536,840, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A three-dimensional (3-D) integrated circuit (3DIC) with a graphene shield
is disclosed. In certain embodiments, at least a graphene layer is positioned between two …

Flip-flops in a monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC)(3DIC) and related methods

Y Du, J Xie, K Samadi - US Patent 9,041,448, 2015 - Google Patents
Flip-flops in a monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC)(3DIC) and related
method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a single clock source is provided for the 3DIC …

Clock distribution network for 3D integrated circuit

K Samadi, SA Panth, J Xie, Y Du - US Patent 9,098,666, 2015 - Google Patents
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Wide-range many-core SoC design in scaled CMOS: Challenges and opportunities

S Vangal, S Paul, S Hsu, A Agarwal… - … Transactions on Very …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The system-on-chip (SoC) designs for future Internet of Things (IoT) systems, spanning client
platforms to cloud datacenters, need to deliver uncompromising and scalable performance …

Single-ended 9T SRAM cell for near-threshold voltage operation with enhanced read performance in 22-nm FinFET technology

Y Yang, J Park, SC Song, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although near-threshold (Vth) operation is an attractive method for energy and performance-
constrained applications, it suffers from problems in terms of circuit stability, particularly, for …

Centip3De: A cluster-based NTC architecture with 64 ARM Cortex-M3 cores in 3D stacked 130 nm CMOS

D Fick, RG Dreslinski, B Giridhar, G Kim… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present Centip3De, a large-scale 3D CMP with a cluster-based near-threshold
computing (NTC) architecture. Centip3De uses a 3D stacking technology in conjunction with …

NeuroSim V1. 4: Extending Technology Support for Digital Compute-in-Memory Toward 1nm Node

J Lee, A Lu, W Li, S Yu - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, numerous compute-in-memory (CIM) platforms have been proposed
in the literature. While emerging non-volatile memory based analog CIM (ACIM) has been …

A 128 kb 7T SRAM using a single-cycle boosting mechanism in 28-nm FD–SOI

B Mohammadi, O Andersson, J Nguyen… - … on Circuits and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 128-kb ultra-low voltage SRAM, based on a leakage optimized single-WELL 7T bitcell in
28-nm FD-SOI technology is presented. An ideal power management scenario in a single …