David Blaauw

33.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
684 papers, 24.7k citations indexed

About

David Blaauw is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Blaauw has authored 684 papers receiving a total of 24.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 582 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 226 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 137 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Blaauw's work include Low-power high-performance VLSI design (327 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (116 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (113 papers). David Blaauw is often cited by papers focused on Low-power high-performance VLSI design (327 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (116 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (113 papers). David Blaauw collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. David Blaauw's co-authors include Dennis Sylvester, Trevor Mudge, Krisztián Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Shidhartha Das, Sanjay Pant, Bo Zhai, Inhee Lee, Vladimir Zolotov and Ronald Dreslinski and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and Journal of Power Sources.

In The Last Decade

David Blaauw

667 papers receiving 23.8k citations

Hit Papers

Razor: a low-power pipeli... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2004 2010 2002 2009 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Razor: a low-power pipeline based on circuit-level timing speculation
    2003 769 citations David Blaauw et al. profile →
  2. Razor: a low-power pipeline based on circuit-level timing speculation
    2004 645 citations David Blaauw et al. profile →
  3. Near-Threshold Computing: Reclaiming Moore's Law Through Energy Efficient Integrated Circuits
    2010 594 citations David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester et al. profile →
  4. Drowsy caches
    2002 527 citations David Blaauw et al. profile →
  5. RazorII: In Situ Error Detection and Correction for PVT and SER Tolerance
    2009 430 citations David Blaauw et al. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits profile →
  6. Compute Caches
    2017 232 citations Supreet Jeloka, Arun Subramaniyan et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Blaauw 20.8k 9.9k 4.2k 4.1k 1.3k 684 24.7k
Dennis Sylvester 16.6k 0.8× 5.6k 0.6× 4.4k 1.0× 3.0k 0.7× 774 0.6× 602 19.0k
Kaushik Roy 28.4k 1.4× 8.3k 0.8× 3.8k 0.9× 2.7k 0.7× 3.5k 2.7× 1.0k 32.6k
Jan M. Rabaey 17.1k 0.8× 5.6k 0.6× 6.7k 1.6× 7.6k 1.9× 1.4k 1.1× 438 24.8k
R.W. Brodersen 13.5k 0.7× 4.8k 0.5× 3.6k 0.8× 7.6k 1.9× 793 0.6× 275 19.0k
Andrew B. Kahng 12.6k 0.6× 8.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.2× 3.7k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 611 17.0k
Massoud Pedram 14.0k 0.7× 7.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.3× 5.0k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 887 19.7k
Yu Cao 10.8k 0.5× 2.6k 0.3× 2.3k 0.5× 975 0.2× 1.1k 0.8× 409 13.9k
Anantha P. Chandrakasan 38.2k 1.8× 6.9k 0.7× 12.2k 2.9× 25.2k 6.2× 2.1k 1.6× 575 55.0k
David Z. Pan 9.4k 0.5× 4.4k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 1.4k 1.1× 569 10.9k
Anand Raghunathan 8.4k 0.4× 6.1k 0.6× 1.4k 0.3× 4.5k 1.1× 2.4k 1.8× 400 14.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Blaauw

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All Works

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Lee, Jungho, Li Xu, L. Hanson, et al.. (2025). Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute. Science Robotics. 10(109). eadu8009–eadu8009.
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Wang, Yunfan, et al.. (2024). A Low-Power Highly Reconfigurable Analog FIR Filter With 11-Bit Charge-Domain DAC for Narrowband Receivers. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters. 7. 74–77. 1 indexed citations
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Nason, Samuel R., Jongyup Lim, Matthew S. Willsey, et al.. (2022). A Power-Efficient Brain-Machine Interface System With a Sub-mw Feature Extraction and Decoding ASIC Demonstrated in Nonhuman Primates. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 16(3). 395–408. 22 indexed citations
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Subramaniyan, Arun, Jack Wadden, Xiao Wu, et al.. (2021). Accelerated Seeding for Genome Sequence Alignment with Enumerated Radix Trees. 388–401. 15 indexed citations
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Xu, Li, Taekwang Jang, Jongyup Lim, et al.. (2021). A 510-pW 32-kHz Crystal Oscillator With High Energy-to-Noise-Ratio Pulse Injection. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 57(2). 434–451. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Li, Kyojin Choo, David Blaauw, & Dennis Sylvester. (2021). An Analog-Assisted Digital LDO With Single Subthreshold Output pMOS Achieving 1.44-fs FOM. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters. 4. 154–157. 5 indexed citations
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Nason, Samuel R., Alex K. Vaskov, Matthew S. Willsey, et al.. (2020). A low-power band of neuronal spiking activity dominated by local single units improves the performance of brain–machine interfaces. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 4(10). 973–983. 78 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiao, Arun Subramaniyan, Zhehong Wang, et al.. (2020). A High-Throughput Pruning-Based Pair-Hidden-Markov-Model Hardware Accelerator for Next-Generation DNA Sequencing. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters. 4. 31–35. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhehong, Tianjun Zhang, Daichi Fujiki, et al.. (2020). A 2.46M Reads/s Seed-Extension Accelerator for Next-Generation Sequencing Using a String-Independent PE Array. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 56(3). 824–833. 1 indexed citations
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Choo, Kyojin, Li Xu, Yejoong Kim, et al.. (2019). Energy-Efficient Motion-Triggered IoT CMOS Image Sensor With Capacitor Array-Assisted Charge-Injection SAR ADC. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 54(11). 2921–2931. 34 indexed citations
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Oh, Sechang, Hun-Seok Kim, Dennis Sylvester, et al.. (2019). An Acoustic Signal Processing Chip With 142-nW Voice Activity Detection Using Mixer-Based Sequential Frequency Scanning and Neural Network Classification. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 54(11). 3005–3016. 40 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yiqun, Li Xu, Qing Dong, et al.. (2018). Recryptor: A Reconfigurable Cryptographic Cortex-M0 Processor With In-Memory and Near-Memory Computing for IoT Security. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 53(4). 995–1005. 88 indexed citations
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Dong, Qing, Supreet Jeloka, Mehdi Saligane, et al.. (2017). A 0.3V VDDmin 4+2T SRAM for searching and in-memory computing using 55nm DDC technology. C160–C161. 54 indexed citations
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Yang, Kaiyuan, Qing Dong, David Blaauw, & Dennis Sylvester. (2017). 8.3 A 553F2 2-transistor amplifier-based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with 1.67% native instability. 146–147. 93 indexed citations
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Dong, Qing, Supreet Jeloka, Mehdi Saligane, et al.. (2017). A 4 + 2T SRAM for Searching and In-Memory Computing With 0.3-V $V_{\mathrm {DDmin}}$. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 53(4). 1006–1015. 75 indexed citations
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Dong, Qing, et al.. (2016). Low-Power and Compact Analog-to-Digital Converter Using Spintronic Racetrack Memory Devices. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 25(3). 907–918. 14 indexed citations
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Lin, Yu-Shiang, Dennis Sylvester, & David Blaauw. (2007). A sub-pW timer using gate leakage for ultra low-power sub-Hz monitoring systems. 397–400. 67 indexed citations

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