Publications
Journals | Books | Book Chapters | Conferences | Theses
Journals
- Mark A. Hanson, Harry C. Powell Jr., Adam T. Barth, Kyle Ringgenberg, Benton H. Calhoun, James H. Aylor, and John Lach.
“Body Area Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities” (pdf)
IEEE Computer, Vol. 42, No. 1, pages 58-65, January 2009. - Jiajing Wang and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Techniques to Extend Canary-based Standby VDD Scaling for SRAMs to 45nm and Beyond" (pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 11, pages 2514-2523, November 2008. - Benton H. Calhoun, Yu Cao, Xin Li, Ken Mai, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Rob A. Rutenbar, and Kenneth L. Shepard.
"Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS" (pdf).
Proceedings of the IEEE (Special Issue on Integrated Electronics: Beyond Moore's Law), Vol. 96, No. 2, pages 343-365, February 2008. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha P. Chandrakasan.
"A 256kb 65nm Sub-threshold SRAM Design for Ultra-Low Voltage Operation" (pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 3, pages 680-688, March 2007. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Static Noise Margin Variation for Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS."(pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 7, pages 1673-1679, July, 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha P. Chandrakasan.
"Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling (UDVS) Using Sub-Threshold Operation and Local Voltage Dithering"(pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 1, pages 238-245, January, 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun, Alice Wang, and Anantha P. Chandrakasan.
"Modeling and Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits"(pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 40, No. 9, pages 1778-1786, September, 2005. - Benton H. Calhoun, Denis C. Daly, Naveen Verma, Daniel F. Finchelstein, David D. Wentzloff, Alice Wang, Seong-Hwan Cho, and Anantha P. Chandrakasan.
"Design Considerations for Ultra-Low Energy Wireless Microsensor Nodes"(pdf).
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, No. 6, pages 727-740, June, 2005. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha P. Chandrakasan.
"Standby Power Reduction Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Canary Flip-Flop Structures"(pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, No. 9, September, 2004. - Benton H. Calhoun, Frank A. Honore, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"A Leakage Reduction Methodology for Distributed MTCMOS"(pdf).
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, No. 5, May, 2004. - Eugene Shih, Seonghwan Cho, Fred S. Lee, Benton H. Calhoun, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Design Considerations for Energy-Efficient Radios in Wireless Microsensor Networks"(pdf)
The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Vol. 37, Issue 1, Pages 77 - 94, May 2004.
Books (Top)
- Alice Wang, Benton H. Calhoun, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems | (buy the book) | (at Amazon.com)
Springer, 2006.
Book Chapters (Top)
- Benton H. Calhoun and Jan Rabaey.
"Optimizing Power @ Design Time - Memory"
in Low Power Design Essentials.
Jan Rabaey, to be published, Springer. - Benton H. Calhoun and Jan Rabaey, "Optimizing Power @ Standby - Memory"
in Low Power Design Essentials.
Jan Rabaey, to be published, Springer. - Benton H. Calhoun, James Kao, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Power Gating and Dynamic Voltage Scaling."
in Leakage in Nanometer CMOS Technologies.
Siva G. Narendra and Anantha Chandrakasan, eds., pages 41-75, Springer, 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun, Curt Schurgers, Alice Wang, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Low Energy Digital Circuit Design."
in AmIware: Hardware Drivers of Ambient Intelligence.
S. Mukherjee, E. Aarts, R. Roovers, F. Widdershoven, and M. Ouwerkerk, eds., Springer, pages 181-202, 2006.
Conferences (Top)
- Satyanand Nalam, Vikas Chandra, Cezary Pietrzyk, Robert C. Aitken, and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Asymmetric 6T SRAM with Two-phase Write and Split Bitline Differential Sensing for Low Voltage Operation"
accepted at ISQED, 2010. - Randy W. Mann, Satyanand Nalam, Jiajing Wang, and Benton H. Calhoun "Limits of Bias Based Assist Methods in Nano-Scale 6T SRAM"
accepted at ISQED, 2010. - Benton H. Calhoun, Saad Arrabi, Sudhanshu Khanna, Yousef Shakhsheer, Kyle Craig, Joseph Ryan, and John Lach.
“REESES: Rapid Efficient Energy Scalable ElectronicS”
accepted for Proc. of GOMAC Tech, March 2010. - Satyanand Nalam, Mudit Bhargava, Kyle Ringgenberg, Ken Mai, and Benton H. Calhoun.
“A Technology Agnostic Simulation Environment (TASE) for Iterative Custom IC Design Across Processes” (pdf) | Slides (pdf)
International Conference on Computer Design, pages 523-528, October 2009. - Mateja Putic, Liang Di, Benton H. Calhoun, and John Lach.
“Panoptic DVS: A Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage Scaling Framework for Energy Scalable CMOS Design” (pdf)
International Conference on Computer Design, pages 491-497, October 2009. - Mudit Bhargava, Satyanand Nalam, Benton H. Calhoun, and Ken Mai.
“An SRAM Prototyping Tool for Rapid Sub-32nm Design Exploration and Optimization”
SRC Techcon, October 2009. - Jerry Qi, Jiajing Wang, Benton H. Calhoun, and Mircea Stan.
“MSN: Memory Sensor for NBTI”
SRC Techcon, October 2009. - Satyanand Nalam and Benton H. Calhoun.
“Asymmetric Sizing in a 45nm 5T SRAM to Improve Read Stability over 6T” (pdf)
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pages 709-712, September 2009. - Sudhanshu Khanna and Benton H. Calhoun.
“Serial Sub-threshold Circuits for Ultra-Low-Power Systems” (pdf)
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, August 2009. - Steve Jocke, Jonathan Bolus, Stuart N. Wooters, Andrew D. Jurik, Alf F. Weaver, Travis N. Blalock, and Benton H. Calhoun.
"A 2.6-μW Sub-threshold Mixed-signal ECG SoC" (pdf)
Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2009. - Andrew D. Jurik, Jonathan Bolus, Alf F. Weaver, Benton H. Calhoun, and Travis N. Blalock.
"Mobile Health Monitoring Through Biotelemetry" (pdf)
Bodynets, 2009. - Benton H. Calhoun, Jonathan Bolus, Sudhanshu Khanna, Andrew D. Jurik, Alf F. Weaver, and Travis N. Blalock.
"Sub-threshold Operation and Cross-Hierarchy Design for Ultra Low Power Wearable Sensors" (pdf) | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009. - Benton H. Calhoun, Sudhanshu Khanna, Randy Mann, and Jiajing Wang.
"Sub-threshold Circuit Design with Shrinking CMOS Devices" (pdf) | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009. - Liang Di, Mateja Putic, John Lach, and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Power Switch Characterization for Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage Scaling" (pdf)
International Conference on Computer Design, pages 605-611, October 2008. - Jiajing Wang and Benton H. Calhoun.
"An Enhanced Adaptive Canary System for SRAM Standby Power Reduction."
TECHCON, September 2008. - Jiajing Wang, Satyanand Nalam, and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Analyzing Static and Dynamic Write Margin for Nanometer SRAMs" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pages 129 - 134, August 2008.
- Joseph F. Ryan and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Minimizing Offset for Latching Voltage-Mode Sense Amplifiers for Sub-threshold Operation" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design," pages 127-132, March 2008. - Amith Singhee, Jiajing Wang, Benton H. Calhoun, and Rob A. Rutenbar
"Recursive Statistical Blockade: An Enhanced Technique for Rare Event Simulation with Application to SRAM Circuit Design" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
International Conference on VLSI Design, India, pages 131-136, January 2008.
-- Best Student Paper Award -- - Jiajing Wang and Benton H. Calhoun
"Canary Replica Feedback for Near-DRV Standby VDD Scaling in a 90nm SRAM" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pages 29-32, September 2007. - Jiajing Wang, Amith Singhee, Rob A. Rutenbar, and Benton H. Calhoun
"Statistical Modeling for the Minimum Standby Supply Voltage of a Full SRAM Array" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pages 400-403, September 2007. - Alice Wang, Benton H. Calhoun, Naveen Verma, Joyce Kwong, and Anantha Chandrakasan
"Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Energy Starved Electronics"
Proc. of GOMAC Tech, March 2007. - Joseph F. Ryan, Jiajing Wang, and Benton H. Calhoun
"Analyzing and Modeling Process Balance for Sub-threshold Circuit Design" (pdf). | Slides (pdf)
GLSVLSI, pp. 275-280, March 2007. - Benton H. Calhoun, Alice Wang, Naveen Verma, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Sub-threshold Design: The Challenges of Minimizing Circuit Energy"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 366-368, October 2006. - Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Naveen Verma, Joyce Kwong, Denis Daly, Nathan Ickes, Daniel Finchelstein, and Benton H. Calhoun.
"Micropower Wireless Sensors" (submission pdf).
NSTI Nanotech, vol 3, pages 459-462, May 7-11, 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"A 256kb Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pages 628-629, February 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Analyzing Static Noise Margin for Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
European Solid-State Circuits Conference, pages 363-366, September 2005. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scaling Using Sub-threshold Operation and Local Voltage Dithering in 90nm CMOS"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pages 300-301, 599, February 2005. - Benton H. Calhoun, Alice Wang, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Device Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, October 2004. - Benton H. Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Characterizing and Modeling Minimum Energy Operation for Subthreshold Circuits"(pdf). | Slides (pdf)
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, August 2004. - David D. Wentzloff, Benton H. Calhoun, Rex Min, Alice Wang, Nathan Ickes, and A. Chandrakasan.
"Design Considerations for Next Generation Wireless Power-Aware Microsensor Nodes"(pdf).
VLSI Design Symposium, 2004. - Ben Calhoun and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Standby Voltage Scaling for Reduced Power"(pdf).
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2003. - Benton H. Calhoun, Frank A. Honore, and Anantha Chandrakasan.
"Design Methodology for Fine-Grained Leakage Control in MTCMOS"(pdf).
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2003. - P. Sotiriadis, O. Franza, D.W. Bailey, B. Calhoun, D. Lin, and A. Chandrakasan.
"Fast Algorithm for Clock Grid Simulation"(pdf).
European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2002. - E. Shih, B.H. Calhoun, S.H. Cho, and A. Chandrakasan.
"Energy-Efficient Link Layer for Wireless Microsensor Networks"(pdf).
Workshop on VLSI, 2001.
Theses (Top)
- Benton H. Calhoun
Low Energy Digital Circuit Design Using Sub-threshold Operation.
Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. - Benton H. Calhoun
Circuit Techniques for Subthreshold Leakage Reduction in a Deep Sub-Micron Process
Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.
