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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,
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,
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),
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Research Information:
Involved undergraduate student in
research: paper submitted to IEEE Transaction on VLSI is accepted for
publication
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Research Interest |
• Low power clocking system
(=clock tree + flip flop) design • Clocking system stability: soft
error (radiation hardening ) |
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