RESEARCH ARTICLES
Low Power Task Scheduling and Mapping for Applications with Conditional Branches on Heterogeneous
Multi-Processor System
Yang Ge, Yukan Zhang, Parth Malani, Qing Wu, and Qinru Qiu
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 535-551 (2012)
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A Way Cache Locking Scheme Supported by Knowledge Based Smart Preload Effective for Low-Power
Multicore Electronics
Abu Asaduzzaman and Govipalagodage H. Gunasekara
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 552-564 (2012)
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On-Line Predictive Thermal Management Under Peak Temperature Constraints for Practical Multi-Core
Platforms
Guanglei Liu, Ming Fan, Gang Quan, and Meikang Qiu
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 565-578 (2012)
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A New Recursive Multibit Recoding Algorithm for High-Speed and Low-Power Multiplier
Abdelkrim K. Oudjida, Nicolas Chaillet, Ahmed Liacha, and Mohamed L. Berrandjia
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 579-594 (2012)
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Leakage-Aware Speculative Branch Target Buffer
Saman Khoshbakht and Amirali Baniasadi
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 595-603 (2012)
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Branch Target Buffer Energy Reduction Through Efficient Multiway Branch Translation Techniques
Sumanta Pyne and Ajit Pal
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 604-623 (2012)
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Heterogeneous Interconnect for Low-Power Snoop-Based Chip Multiprocessors
Narges Shahidi, Ali Shafiee, and Amirali Baniasadi
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 624-635 (2012)
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Serial Data Driven Cyclic Redundancy Check Generator for Low Power RFID Applications
Vyasa Sai, Ajay Ogirala, and Marlin H. Mickle
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 636-641 (2012)
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Cuk Step-Down Converter Design for Optimum Transient Performance and Minimum Ripple
Benjamin V. P. Chong and Li Zhang
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 642-653 (2012)
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Low Power Digital Alternative to Analog Control of Step-Down Converter
Bo Li, Xuefang Lin-Shi, and Bruno Allard
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 654-666 (2012)
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Modeling of Inherent Losses of Fully Integrated Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converters
Valter Sádio, Fabian Rein, Christian Münker, and Marcelino Santos
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 667-673 (2012)
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On Reliability Trojan Injection and Detection
Aswin Sreedhar, Sandip Kundu, and Israel Koren
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 674-683 (2012)
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Thermal-Safe Dynamic Test Scheduling Method Using On-Chip Temperature Sensors for 3D MPSoCs
Rama Kumar Pasumarthi, V. R. Devanathan, V. Visvanathan, Seetal Potluri, and V. Kamakoti
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 684-695 (2012)
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A SPECIAL SECTION
Selected Articles from the VARI 2012 Workshop
Guest Editors: Nadine Azemard and Gilles Jacquemod
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 696 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
A Hierarchical Reliability Simulation Methodology for AMS Integrated Circuits and Systems
Hao Cai, Hervé Petit, and Jean-François Naviner
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 697-705 (2012)
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Ultra-Low-Power Audio Communication System for Cochlear Implant Application
Yannick Vaiarello, William Tatinian, Yves Leduc, Nicolas Veau, and Gilles Jacquemod
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 706-716 (2012)
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Effects of Lightly Doped Drain and Channel Doping Variations on Flash Memory Performances and
Reliability
Guillaume Just, Vincenzo Della Marca, Arnaud Régnier, Jean-Luc Ogier, Jérémy Postel-Pellerin, Jean-Michel Portal,
and Pascal Masson
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 717-724 (2012)
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A SPECIAL SECTION
Selected Articles from the CDNLive EMEA 2012 Conference
Guest Editors: Luciano Lavagno and Patrick Haspel
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 725 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Power Estimation at Different Abstraction Levels for Wireless Baseband Processors
Martin Palkovic, Peter Debacker, Prabhat Avasare, Steven Dupont, and Tom Vander Aa
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 726-738 (2012)
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Automation of Switch Insertion and Power Network Generation in 28 nm Power-Switched Designs
Shane Stelmach, Kaijian Shi, and Anthony Hill
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 739-745 (2012)
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Table of Contents to Volume 8, Numbers 1-5, 2012
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 747-750 (2012)
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Author Index to Volume 8, Numbers 1-5, 2012
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 751-756 (2012)
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Subject Index to Volume 8, Numbers 1-5, 2012
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 757-760 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Power Management Methods: From Specification and Modeling, to Techniques and Verification
Vinod Viswanath, Rajeev Muralidhar, Harinarayanan Seshadri, and Ananth S. Narayan
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 353-377 (2012)
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Leakage Aware Scheduling on Maximum Temperature Minimization for Periodic Hard Real-Time Systems
Huang Huang, Vivek Chaturvedi, Guanglei Liu, and Gang Quan
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 378-393 (2012)
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MemExplorer: From C Code to Memory Allocation
Johann Laurent, André Rossi, and Marc Sevaux
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 394-402 (2012)
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Exploring a Low-Cost and Power-Efficient Hybridization Technique for 3D NoC-Bus Hybrid Architecture
Using LastZ-Based Routing Algorithms
Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, and Hannu Tenhunen
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 403-414 (2012)
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A Bus Switch Coding System with Minimal Hardware Demand
Giuseppe Visalli
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 415-423 (2012)
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Automatic and Correct Register Transfer Level Annotations for Low Power Microprocessor Design
Vinod Viswanath and Jacob A. Abraham
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 424-439 (2012)
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A Low-Power Parallel Architecture for Finite Galois Field GF(2^m) Arithmetic Operations for
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Esmaeil Amini, Zahra Jeddi, Ahmed Khattab, and Magdy Bayoumi
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 440-451 (2012)
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An Approach for Low Power Design of Power Gated Finite State Machines Considering Partitioning and
State Encoding Together
Priyanka Choudhury and Sambhu Nath Pradhan
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 452-463 (2012)
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Probability-Based Optimal Sizing of Power-Gating Transistors in Full Adders for Reduced Leakage and
High Performance
P. S. Nair, S. Eratne, and E. B. John
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 464-471 (2012)
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A 45 nm 10T Dual-Port SRAM with Shared Bit-Line Scheme for Low Power Operation
Dao-Ping Wang and Wei Hwang
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 472-484 (2012)
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A 140 mV Self-Starting 10 mW DC/DC Converter for Powering Low-Power Electronic Devices from Low-Voltage
Microbial Fuel Cells
Nicolas Degrenne, Bruno Allard, François Buret, Salah-Eddine Adami, Denis Labrousse, Christian Vollaire, and
Florent Morel
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 485-497 (2012)
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Design of a High Efficiency, Wide Input Range 500 kHz 25 W LLC Resonant Converter
Gang Yang, Patrick Dubus, and Daniel Sadarnac
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 498-508 (2012)
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Implementation of an Asynchronous Low-Power Small-Area Passive Radio Frequency Identification Design Using
Synchronous Tools for Automation Applications
Vyasa Sai, Ajay Ogirala, and Marlin H. Mickle
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 509-515 (2012)
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Interconnect Aware Test Power Reduction
Seetal Potluri, Nitin Chandrachoodan, and V. Kamakoti
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 516-525 (2012)
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Ultra Low Power Asynchronous Charge Sharing Logic
Jiaoyan Chen, Dilip Vasudevan, Michel Schellekens, and Emanuel Popovici
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 526-534 (2012)
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A SPECIAL ISSUE
A Special Issue on Power, Parasitics, and Process-Variation (P3) Awareness in Mixed-Signal Design
Guest Editor: Saraju P. Mohanty
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 259–260 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
An Architecture Using Lighter-Than-Air Platforms for Retail Power Beaming and Communications
Narayanan M. Komerath, Rajkumar Pant, and Aravinda Kar
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 261–269 (2012)
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Enhanced Statistical Blockade Approaches for Fast Robustness Estimation and Compensation of
Nano-CMOS Circuits
Luo Sun, Jimson Mathew, Dhiraj K. Pradhan, and Saraju P. Mohanty
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 270–282 (2012)
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Implementation of Smart Battery Charger with Low Power Photo-Voltaic Energy System Using Synchronous
Buck Converter
B. Chitti Babu, S. R. Samantaray, and M. V. Ashwin Kumar
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 283–292 (2012)
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POWER-SIM: An SOC Simulator for Estimating Power Profiles of Mobile Workloads
Priyankar Ghosh, Aritra Hazra, Rahul Gonnabhaktula, Niraj Bhilegaonkar, Pallab Dasgupta,
Chittaranjan Mandal, and Krishna Paul
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 293–303 (2012)
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CMOS Phase-Locked Loop Circuits and Hot Carrier Effects
Yang Liu and Ashok Srivastava
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 304–316 (2012)
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Accurate Polynomial Metamodeling-Based Ultra-Fast Bee Colony Optimization of a Nano-CMOS
Phase-Locked Loop
Oleg Garitselov, Saraju P. Mohanty, and Elias Kougianos
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 317–328 (2012)
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2.4-/5.2-GHz Concurrent Dual-Band Wireless Local Area Network Transmitter
Vivek Sharma, Zubair Akhter, and Nagendra P. Pathak
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 329–335 (2012)
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A Programmable Oversampling CMOS Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter for
Low-Power Interface Electronics
Rajiv Soundararajan and Ashok Srivastava
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 336–345 (2012)
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A Low-Power Instrumentation System for Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Sensors for Environmental and
Healthcare Applications
Sandeep Goud Surya, Sudip Nag, Nikhil M. Duragkar, Dilip Agarwal, Gaurav Chatterjee, Sahir Gandhi, Sheetal Patil,
D. K. Sharma, and V. Ramgopal Rao
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 346–352 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Low-Power Circuit Techniques for Epileptic Seizures Detection and Subsequent Neurostimulation
Muhammad T. Salam, Fayçal Mounaïm, Dang K. Nguyen, and Mohamad Sawan
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 133-145 (2012)
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Energy Consumption Optimized Scheduling Algorithm for Clustered VLIW Architectures
Yang Xu, He Hu, and Tang Zhizhong
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 146-157 (2012)
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Design and Implementation of Field Programmable Gate Array based Digital Pulse Width Modulator for
Synchronous Buck Converter
Subhash Chander, Pramod Agarwal, and Indra Gupta
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 158-169 (2012)
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Inter-Plane Communication Methods for 3-D ICs
Somayyeh Rahimian, Vasilis F. Pavlidis, and Giovanni De Micheli
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 170-181 (2012)
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Digital Adaptive Calibration of Multi-Step Analog to Digital Converters
Amir Zjajo, Manuel J. Barragan, and Jose Pineda de Gyvez
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 182-196 (2012)
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Design of an Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Stage AC/DC Voltage Rectifier and Multiplier Using a Fully-Automated and
Portable Design Methodology
Pierre-Antoine Haddad, Geoffroy Gosset, and Denis Flandre
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 197-206 (2012)
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Design and Implementation of an Area and Power Efficient Switched-Capacitor Based Embedded
DC-DC Converter
Biswajit Maity, Soumya Gangula, and Pradip Mandal
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 207-222 (2012)
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Improvement of Performance of Dynamically Reconfigurable Switched Capacitor Based Non-Overlap Rotational
Time Interleaved Embedded DC-DC Converter
Kaushik Bhattacharyya and Pradip Mandal
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 223-234 (2012)
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Ensuring Power-Safe Application of Test Patterns Using an Effective Gating Approach Considering Current Limits
Wei Zhao, Mohammad Tehranipoor, and Sreejit Chakravarty
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 235-247 (2012)
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Layout-Aware Pattern Evaluation and Analysis for Power-Safe Application of Transition Delay Fault Patterns
Hassan Salmani, Wei Zhao, Mohammad Tehranipoor, Sreejit Chakravarty, Patrick Girard, and Xiaoqing Wen
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 248-258 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Non-Volatile Flip-Flop Based on Unipolar ReRAM for Power-Down Applications
Jean-Michel Portal, Marc Bocquet, Damien Deleruyelle, and Christophe Muller
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 1-10 (2012)
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Adaptive Input-Output Selection Based On-Chip Router Architecture
M. Daneshtalab, M. Kamali, M. Ebrahimi, S. Mohammadi, A. Afzali-Kusha, and J. Plosila
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 11-29 (2012)
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Optimization of On-Chip Interconnect Signaling for Low Energy and High Performance
Ge Chen and Saeid Nooshabadi
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 30-38 (2012)
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Sub-Threshold Delay and Power Analysis of Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Buffer Driven
Interconnect Load for Ultra Low Power Applications
Rohit Dhiman and Rajeevan Chandel
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 39-46 (2012)
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A 1.3-µW, 0.6-µm CMOS Current-Frequency Analog-Digital Converter for Implantable Blood-Glucose
Monitors
Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora, Andres A. Blanco, and Justin P. Vogt
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 47-57 (2012)
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Low-Power Data Driven Symbol Decoder for a UHF Passive RFID Tag
Vyasa Sai, Ajay Ogirala, and Marlin H. Mickle
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 58-62 (2012)
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A 0.4 V 520 nW 990 µm² Fully Integrated Frequency-Domain Smart Temperature Sensor in 65 nm CMOS
Ming-Hung Chang, Shang-Yuan Lin, and Wei Hwang
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 63-72 (2012)
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Test Pattern Generation Based on Multi-TRC Scan Architecture for Reducing Test Cost
Bin Zhou, Liyi Xiao, Yizheng Ye, Xinchun Wu, and Bei Cao
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 73-81 (2012)
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A SPECIAL SECTION
Selected Articles from the VARI 2011 Workshop
Guest Editors: Nadine Azemard and Marc Belleville
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 82 (2012)
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Impact of Power Consumption and Temperature on Processor Lifetime Reliability
Tushar Gupta, Clement Bertolini, Olivier Heron, Nicolas Ventroux, Thomas Zimmer, and Francois Marc
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 83-94 (2012)
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Pushing Adaptive Voltage Scaling Fully on Chip
Julien De Vos, Denis Flandre, and David Bol
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 95-105 (2012)
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Circuit-Level Modeling of SRAM Minimum Operating Voltage Vddmin in the C40 Node
Lorenzo Ciampolini, Siddharth Gupta, Olivier Callen, Amit Chhabra, Dibya Dipti, Sebastien Haendler, Shishir Kumar,
Daniel Noblet, Pierre Malinge, Nicolas Planes, David Turgis, Christophe Lecocq, and Shamsi Azmi
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 106-112 (2012)
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Statistical Estimation of Dominant Physical Parameters for Leakage Variability in 32 Nanometer CMOS,
Under Supply Voltage Variations
Smriti Joshi, Anne Lombardot, Philippe Flatresse, Carmelo D'Agostino, Andre Juge, Edith Beigne, and
Stéphane Girard
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 113-124 (2012)
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Ultra-Thin Body and Buried Oxide (UTBB) FDSOI Technology with Low Variability and Power Management
Capability for 22 nm Node and Below
J. Mazurier, O. Weber, F. Andrieu, A. Toffoli, O. Thomas, F. Allain, J.-P. Noel, M. Belleville, O. Faynot, and T. Poiroux
J. Low Power Electron. 8, 125-132 (2012)
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