Posts by Merav Burstein

The Problem: Due to the growing demand for high-density embedded memories in modern microprocessors and other VLSI Systemon- Chip (SoC) designs, gain cell embedded DRAM (GCeDRAM) has emerged as an alternative to static random access memory (SRAM). GCeDRAM is known for its high-density, non-destructive read operation, low leakage power,and two-port operation. However, GCeDRAM requires periodic…

The Problem: As technology dimensions continue to scale down, high density embedded memories are of great interest for many VLSI systems. However, 6T SRAM cells incur a large area penalty and suffer from high static power consumption in scaled CMOS nodes, often dominating the total area and power budget of a system. Gain-Cell embedded DRAM…

The Problem: With advances in Internet of Thing (IoT) applications and the expansion of mobile devices, energy consumption has become a primary focus of attention in integrated circuits design. These mobile battery operated devices need to operate for extended periods without recharging and therefore requiring ultra-low energy consumption. Many IoT devices require operation in a…

The Problem: With advances in Internet of Thing (IoT) applications and the expansion of mobile devices, energy consumption has become a primary focus of attention in integrated circuits design. These mobile battery operated devices need to operate for extended periods without recharging and therefore requiring ultra-low energy consumption. Many IoT devices require operation in a…

The Problem: The huge amount of sensing devices found in future cars, homes, workplaces and cities require a much stricter security requirement for identification and authentication. It is essential that during hardware communication, the two parties are capable of identifying each other through secret keys and reliable authentication protocols. A technique which has recently emerged…

The Problem: The huge amount of sensing devices found in future cars, homes, workplaces and cities require a much stricter security requirement for identification and authentication. However, when the variation is small, the logical value will be determined by noise, and can vary from run to run and the bit is unstable. The unstable bits…

The Problem: An important power management functions in commercial IC’s is temperature sensing. Since commercial processors can have as many as 40 sensors, the industry is constantly pursuing a small, low power sensor. The Solution: We present a promising, novel ultra-miniature ring-oscillator sensor which at 750 um2 is the world’s smallest integrated smart sensor and…

The Problem: The localization precision which is limited by the square root of N is obtained due to non-coherent addition of the collected photons. An increase in the precision is required as it leads to significant increase in the imaging resolution for the same amount of illumination of alternatively it allows the same resolution as…