ACMOS Publications

Conference and workshop papers are when possible made available with permission of the IEEE. Please observe the copyright notice on the documents when you download them. Technical reports are also available through anonymous ftp in ftp.isi.edu:/pub/acmos.

Ph.D. Thesis

N. Tzartzanis, Energy-Recovery Techniques for CMOS Microprocessor Design, EE-Systems Dept., University of Southern California, August 1998.

Papers and journal articles

N. Tzartzanis, W. Athas, Retractile Clock-Powered Logic, Proc. of the 1999 International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, pp. 18-23, San Diego, CA, August 16-17, 1999.
The abstract of the paper is available on line, as are the slides of the presentation (in PDF; 18p, 195k).
N. Tzartzanis, W. Athas, Clock-Powered CMOS: A Hybrid Adiabatic Logic Style for Power-Efficient Computing, 20th Anniversary Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, IEEE Computer Society Press, Mar. 1999, pp. 137-151.
The abstract of the paper is available on line, as are the slides of the presentation (in PDF; 17p, 177k).
W. Athas, Low-Power VLSI Techniques for Applications in Embedded Computing, IEEE Alessandro Volta Memorial Workshop on Low-Power Design, IEEE Computer Society Press, Mar. 1999, pp. 14-22.
The abstract of the article is available on line.
W. Athas, N. Tzartzanis, L." Svensson, and L. Peterson, A low-power microprocessor based on resonant energy, in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Nov. 1997, pp. 1693-1701.
The abstract of the article is available on line.
W. Athas, N. Tzartzanis, L. Svensson, L. Peterson, H. Li, X. Jiang, P. Wang, and W-C. Liu, AC-1: A Clock-Powered Microprocessor, in the Proc. of the International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, Monterey, CA, Aug 18-20, 1997.
Both the abstract and the full text (in postscript; 7p, 640k) of the paper are available on line, as are the slides of the presentation (in postscript - 1688k; yes, it is big; blame PowerPoint).
Nestoras Tzartzanis and William C. Athas, Clock-Powered Logic for a 50 MHz Low-Power RISC Datapath, in the Proc. of the 1997 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb 6-8, 1997.
Both the abstract and the full text (in postscript; 4p, 553k) of the paper are available on line, as are the slides of the presentation (in postscript - 509k).
Sanjaya Dharmasena and Lars Svensson, Startup energies in energy-recovery CMOS, in Proc. of PhysComp'96, Boston, MA, Nov 22-24, 1996.
The abstract is available on line. The full paper is available as an InterJournal brief article (search for it by author name). The slides of the presentation are also available (postscript - 398k).
L."J." Svensson, W.C. Athas, and R.S-C. Wen, A sub-CV² pad driver with 10 ns transition time, in the Proc. of the International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, Monterey, CA, Aug 12-14, 1996.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 5p, 409k) are available on line.
W.C. Athas, W-C. Liu, L."J." Svensson, Energy-recovery CMOS for Highly Pipelined DSP Design, in the Proc. of the International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, Monterey, CA, Aug 12-14, 1996.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 5p, 133k) are available on line.
Nestoras Tzartzanis and William C. Athas, Energy Recovery for the Design of High-Speed, Low-Power Static RAMs, in the Proc. of the International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, pp. 55-60, Monterey, CA, Aug 12-14, 1996.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 7p, 134k) are available on line.
W.C. Athas, L."J." Svensson, and Nestoras Tzartzanis, A Resonant Signal Driver For Two-Phase, Almost-Non-Overlapping Clocks, in the Proc. of the 1996 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Atlanta, GA, May 12-15, 1996.
The abstract of the paper is available on line.
William C. Athas and Nestoras Tzartzanis, Energy Recovery for Low-Power CMOS, in the Proc. of the 1995 Chapel Hill Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, IEEE Press, Chapel Hill, NC, March 27-29, 1995.
The abstract of the paper is available on line.
Nestoras Tzartzanis and William C. Athas, Design and Analysis of a Low-Power Energy-Recovery Adder, in the Proc. of the Fifth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Design, IEEE Press, pp. 66-69, Buffalo, NY, March 16-18, 1995.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript, 5p - 119k) are available on line.
W.C. Athas, L."J." Svensson, J.G. Koller, N. Tzartzanis, E. Chou, Low-Power Digital Systems Based on Adiabatic-Switching Principles, in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, pp 398-407, Dec. 1994.
The abstract of the article is available on line.
J.G. Koller, W.C. Athas and L."J." Svensson, Thermal Logic Circuits, in the Proc. of the IEEE 1994 Workshop on Physics and Computing.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript, 10p - 174k) are available on line.
W.C. Athas and L."J." Svensson, Reversible logic issues in adiabatic CMOS, in the Proc. of the IEEE 1994 Workshop on Physics and Computing.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript, 9p - 296k) of the paper is available on line.
L."J." Svensson and J.G. Koller, Driving a capacitive load without dissipating fCV^2, in the Proc. of the IEEE 1994 Symposium on Low-Power Electronics, Oct 1994.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 3p, 80k) are available on line.
L."J." Svensson and J.G. Koller, Adiabatic charging without inductors, in the Proc. of the Int'l Workshop on Low-Power Design, pp. 159-164, Apr. 1994.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 6p, 69K) are available.
W.C. Athas, L."J." Svensson, J.G. Koller, N. Tzartzanis & E. Chou, A framework for practical low-power digital CMOS systems using adiabatic-switching principles, in the Proc. of the Int'l Workshop on Low-Power Design, pp. 189-194, Apr. 1994.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript - 6p, 74K) are available.
William C. Athas, Jeffrey G. Koller, and Lars "J." Svensson, An energy-efficient CMOS line driver using adiabatic switching, in the Proc. of the Fourth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Design, IEEE Press, pp.159-164, Mar. 1994.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript, 5p - 86k) are available on line.
Jeffrey G. Koller & William C. Athas, Adiabatic switching, low energy computing, and the physics of storing and erasing information, in the Proc. of the Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysCmp '92, Oct. 1992; IEEE Press, 1993.
Both the abstract and the full paper (in postscript, 5p - 103k) are available on line.

Technical Reports

W.C. Athas, J.G. Koller, and L."J." Svensson, An energy-efficient CMOS line driver using adiabatic switching, ACMOS-TR-2, Jul. 1993.
Both the abstract and the full report (in postscript - 17p, 221K) are available.
L."J." Svensson and J.G. Koller, Adiabatic charging without inductors, ACMOS-TR-3a, Feb. 1994.
Both the abstract and the full report (in postscript - 20p, 164K) are available.

Book chapters

L. Svensson, "Adiabatic Switching". In Chandrakasan, Brodersen, Low Power Digital CMOS Design , Kluwer, 1995.
W.C. Athas, "Energy-recovery CMOS". In Rabaey, Pedram (Eds), Low Power Design Methodologies, Kluwer, 1996.