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JOURNAL PUBLICATION:

 

P. Zhao, J. McNeely, W. Kuang, Z. Wang, “Design of Sequential Elements for Low Power Clocking System” IEEE Transacting on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) system, accepted.

W. Kuang, P. Zhao, J.S.Yuan, and R. DeMara, “Design of asynchronous circuits for high soft error tolerance in deep submicron CMOS circuits,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol.18, no.3, pp.410-422, March 2010.

P. Zhao, J. McNeely, P. K. Golconda, S. Venigalla, N. Wang, Magdy Bayoumi, W. Kuang, L. Downey, “Low Power Clocked-Pseudo-NMOS Flip-Flop for Level Conversion in Dual Supply Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 17,  Issue 9,  pp.1196 – 1202, Sept. 2009.

P. Zhao, Jason McNeely, Pradeep Golconda, Magdy A. Bayoumi, Kuang W.D, and Bob Barcenas, “Low Power Clock Branch Sharing Double-Edge Triggered Flip-Flop,  IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,Vol.15, No.3, March 2007.

P. Zhao
, T. Darwish, M. Bayoumi, “High Performance and Low Power Conditional Discharge Flip-Flop,” in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol 12., No. 5, pp. 477-484, May 2004.      
Cited 35 times.

PATENT             
U.S. Patent:
“Single-transistor-clocked flip-flop,” P. Zhao, T. Darwish, M. Bayoumi

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS (presentations):

P.Zhao, Z.Wang, “Power Optimization for VLSI Circuits and Systems,” IEEE  10th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT 2010), Nov.1-4, Shanghai, China(Invited talk, Session chair, TPC member).

 

P.Zhao, Z.Wang, “Low Power Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems”, IEEE ASICON, Oct.20-23, 2009, Changsha, China(Invited talk).

 

P. Zhao, Drew Moshier, Michael Fahy, “Incorporating Real World Integrated Circuit in a Liberal Arts Computer Science Program”, IEEE International Microelectronics System Education Conference(MSE09), July 25-27, 2009, San Francisco, CA.

 

P. Zhao, J. McNeely, Pradeep Golconda, Magdy A. Bayoumi, Bob Barcenas, Jianping Hu, “Low Power Design of Double-Edge Triggered Flip-Flop by Reducing the Number of Clocked Transistors,” IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems for Communications(ICCSC08), May 26-28, 2008, Shanghai, China.

P. Zhao, J. McNeely, G. P. Kumar  and M. Bayoumi,  “Low Power Keeper for High Fan-In Domino Circuits,” in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems(ISCAS 2007), May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans,  LA.


Md Faisal, P. Zhao, M. Bayoumi, “A Low-Power Clock Frequency Multiplier,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems(ISCAS 2006), May 21-24, 2006, Kos, Greece

P. Zhao, G. P. Kumar, Jason M. and M. Bayoumi, “External- Internal Dual Switch Leakage Controlled Flip-flop design,” IEEE International Mid West Symposium on Circuits and Systems(MWSCAS 2005), August 10, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio

P. Zhao, G. P. Kumar and M. Bayoumi, “Contention Reduced/Conditional Discharge Flip-Flops for Level Conversion in CVS Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004), May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

P. Zhao, G. P. Kumar, A. Chidanandan and M. Bayoumi, “A Double-Edge Implicit-Pulsed Level Convert Flip-Flop,” IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI04), February 19-20, 2004, Lafayette, Louisiana, pp. 141-144. (Presentation acceptance rate: 23%)

P. Zhao,T.Darwash, and M. Bayoumi, “Low Power Conditional-Execution Pulsed Flip-Flop,” IEEE Computer Society, Looking Forward Magazine, Summer 2003.

P. Zhao, T. Darwish, M. Bayoumi, “Low Power and High Speed Explicit-Pulsed Flip-Flops,” 45th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems Conference (MWSCAS02), Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 4-7, 2002, vol.2, pp.477-480.         

General Research Information:

Involved undergraduate student in research: paper submitted to IEEE Transaction on VLSI is accepted for publication

Research Interest

              Low power clocking system (=clock tree + flip flop) design

              Clocking system stability: soft error (radiation hardening )

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Peiyi Zhao

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