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  • 2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to sub-threshold integrated circuits and self-powered systems

Overview

Benton H. Calhoun is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily across the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Their work also touches on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their main research topics include:

  • Low-power high-performance VLSI design
  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • ECG Monitoring and Analysis

Calhoun has published extensively in notable venues, including:

  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society
  • 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Some recent papers illustrating their work are:

  • "Using synchronized oscillators to compute the maximum independent set," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Low-Power RF Wake-Up Receivers: Analysis, Tradeoffs, and Design," 2022, IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society
  • "A 0.6V 785-nW Multimodal Sensor Interface IC for Ozone Pollutant Sensing and Correlated Cardiovascular Disease Monitoring," 2021, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "A 2.4 GHz-91.5 dBm Sensitivity Within-Packet Duty-Cycled Wake-Up Receiver," 2021, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • "A 32nA Fully Autonomous Multi-Input Single-Inductor Multi-Output Energy-Harvesting and Power-Management Platform with 1.2×105 Dynamic Range, Integrated MPPT, and Multi-Modal Cold Start-Up," 2022, 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Daniel S. Truesdell
  • Xinjian Liu
  • Shuo Li
  • Anjana Dissanayake
  • Steven M. Bowers

In recognition of their work, Benton H. Calhoun was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021 for contributions to sub-threshold integrated circuits and self-powered systems.

Best Publications

  • Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems

    Alice Wang;Benton Highsmith Calhoun;Anantha P Chandrakasan

  • Body Area Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

    M.A. Hanson;H.C. Powell;A.T. Barth;K. Ringgenberg

  • Modeling and sizing for minimum energy operation in subthreshold circuits

    B.H. Calhoun;A. Wang;A. Chandrakasan

  • A 256-kb 65-nm Sub-threshold SRAM Design for Ultra-Low-Voltage Operation

    B.H. Calhoun;A.P. Chandrakasan

  • Static noise margin variation for sub-threshold SRAM in 65-nm CMOS

    Benton H. Calhoun;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • A Batteryless 19 $\mu$ W MICS/ISM-Band Energy Harvesting Body Sensor Node SoC for ExG Applications

    Yanqing Zhang;Fan Zhang;Y. Shakhsheer;J. D. Silver

  • Design considerations for ultra-low energy wireless microsensor nodes

    B.H. Calhoun;D.C. Daly;Naveen Verma;D.F. Finchelstein

  • A 256kb Sub-threshold SRAM in 65nm CMOS

    B.H. Calhoun;A. Chandrakasan

  • Ultra-dynamic voltage scaling (UDVS) using sub-threshold operation and local voltage dithering

    Benton H. Calhoun;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS

    B.H. Calhoun;Yu Cao;Xin Li;Ken Mai

  • Characterizing and modeling minimum energy operation for subthreshold circuits

    Benton H. Calhoun;Anantha Chandrakasan

  • Analyzing static and dynamic write margin for nanometer SRAMs

    Jiajing Wang;Satyanand Nalam;Benton H. Calhoun

  • Flexible Technologies for Self-Powered Wearable Health and Environmental Sensing

    Veena Misra;Alper Bozkurt;Benton Calhoun;Thomas Jackson

  • A 10 mV-Input Boost Converter With Inductor Peak Current Control and Zero Detection for Thermoelectric and Solar Energy Harvesting With 220 mV Cold-Start and $-$ 14.5 dBm, 915 MHz RF Kick-Start

    Aatmesh Shrivastava;Nathan E. Roberts;Osama U. Khan;David D. Wentzloff

  • An Energy-Efficient Subthreshold Level Converter in 130-nm CMOS

    Stuart N Wooters;Benton H Calhoun;Travis N Blalock

  • A leakage reduction methodology for distributed MTCMOS

    B.H. Calhoun;F.A. Honore;A.P. Chandrakasan

  • Sensor node, method of operating the sensor node and processor-readable medium for performing the method

    Calhoun Benton H;Otis Brian

  • Flexible Circuits and Architectures for Ultralow Power

    B.H. Calhoun;J.F. Ryan;S. Khanna;M. Putic

  • A batteryless 19μW MICS/ISM-band energy harvesting body area sensor node SoC

    Fan Zhang;Yanqing Zhang;Jason Silver;Yousef Shakhsheer

  • Design methodology for fine-grained leakage control in MTCMOS

    Benton H. Calhoun;Frank A. Honore;Anantha Chandrakasan

  • Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)

    Alice Wang;Benton H. Calhoun;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Digital Circuit Design Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Nanoscale CMOS : Small transistors necessitate big changes, in the way digital circuits are modeled and optimized for manufacturability, and new strategies for logic, memory, clocking and power distribution

    Benton H. Calhoun;Yu Cao;Xin Li;Ken Mai

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Wentzloff
David D. Wentzloff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Lach
John Lach George Washington University
Brian Otis
Brian Otis University of Washington
Rob A. Rutenbar
Rob A. Rutenbar University of Pittsburgh
Songbin Gong
Songbin Gong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Naveen Verma
Naveen Verma Princeton University
Veena Misra
Veena Misra North Carolina State University
Mircea R. Stan
Mircea R. Stan University of Virginia

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