Session 16 Overview: Emerging Domain-Specific Digital Circuits and Systems

Emerging applications continue to drive advancements in digital circuits and systems for high integration, low area and high energy efficiency. The first three papers in this session demonstrate memory-centric accelerators, including: 1) a digital in-memory computing SRAM macro with approximate arithmetic hardware, 2) a high-density compute-in-memory RRAM macro, and 3) an SoC integrated with a large-capacity RRAM for edge applications. Next, a metal-oxide thin-film transistor (TFT)-based microprocessor demonstrates high speed for 800nm TFT technology, followed by a flexible and scalable Ising machine for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The final two papers showcase 1) a low-power transceiver for voltage-mode human-body communication, and 2) a baseband processor for run-time optimal beamforming.