Dennis Sylvester

25.3k citations

602 papers · 19.0k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 71

Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.05%
Hardware and Architecture top 0.02%
Biomedical Engineering top 0.2%
Computer Networks and Communications top 0.2%
Mechanical Engineering top 2%

Co-authors: David Blaauw Mingoo Seok Scott Hanson Kurt Keutzer Bo Zhai Yoonmyung Lee Kaiyuan Yang Trevor Mudge
Topics: Low-power high-performance VLSI design (294 papers)Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (153 papers)Semiconductor materials and devices (149 papers)
Cited by: Hardware and Architecture Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Networks and Communications
Journals: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaProceedings of the IEEE Journal of Power Sources
Partner nations: United States South Korea Singapore

In The Last Decade

Dennis Sylvester

588 papers receiving 18.3k citations

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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.

Near-Threshold Computing: Reclaiming Moore's Law Through Energy Efficient Integrated Circuits

2010 594 citations David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester et al. profile →
New paradigm of predictive MOSFET and interconnect modeling for early circuit simulation

2002 398 citations Dennis Sylvester et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute 2025 ·Science Robotics ·(unknown),Jungho Lee,(unknown),Li Xu,L. Hanson,(unknown),Dennis Sylvester,Mark Yim,David Blaauw,Marc Z. Miskin	0
2	Open Se Cura: First silicon results of an auditable and transparent hardware root-of-trust system using open electronic design automation in 16 nm 2024 ·IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine ·(unknown),Ming‐Hung Chen,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Dennis Sylvester,Mehdi Saligane	1
3	An Ultralow-Power Triaxial MEMS Accelerometer With High-Voltage Biasing and Electrostatic Mismatch Compensation 2024 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·(unknown),Seokhyeon Jeong,Kyojin Choo,Yejoong Kim,(unknown),(unknown),Li Xu,(unknown),O. Oliaei,Matthew Thompson,Stephen F. Bart,P.G. Hartwell,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	1
4	ConSmax: Hardware-Friendly Alternative Softmax with Learnable Parameters 2024 ·Deep Blue (University of Michigan) ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Dennis Sylvester,(unknown),Mehdi Saligane	2
5	A $1.5\mu\mathrm{W}$ End-to-End Keyword Spotting SoC with Content-Adaptive Frame Sub-Sampling and Fast-Settling Analog Frontend 2023 ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Qirui Zhang,Hun-Seok Kim,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	8
6	An Ultralow-Power H.264/AVC Intra-Frame Image Compression Accelerator for Intelligent Event-Driven IoT Imaging Systems 2023 ·IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters ·Qirui Zhang,(unknown),(unknown),Hun-Seok Kim,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	2
7	A Power-Efficient Brain-Machine Interface System With a Sub-mw Feature Extraction and Decoding ASIC Demonstrated in Nonhuman Primates 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems ·(unknown),Samuel R. Nason,Jongyup Lim,(unknown),Matthew S. Willsey,Parag G. Patil,Hun-Seok Kim,Dennis Sylvester,Cynthia A. Chestek,David Blaauw	22
8	A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End 2022 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·(unknown),(unknown),Kyojin Choo,Seokhyeon Jeong,Sechang Oh,Jungho Lee,Dennis Sylvester,David Blaauw	4
9	An Analog-Assisted Digital LDO With Single Subthreshold Output pMOS Achieving 1.44-fs FOM 2021 ·IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters ·Li Xu,Kyojin Choo,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	5
10	17.2 A 142nW Voice and Acoustic Activity Detection Chip for mm-Scale Sensor Nodes Using Time-Interleaved Mixer-Based Frequency Scanning 2019 ·(unknown),Sechang Oh,Zhan Shi,Jongyup Lim,Yejoong Kim,Seokhyeon Jeong,Yu Chen,David Blaauw,Hun-Seok Kim,Dennis Sylvester	41
11	A Self-Tuning IoT Processor Using Leakage-Ratio Measurement for Energy-Optimal Operation 2019 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·(unknown),Satoru Miyoshi,(unknown),David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester,Yiqun Zhang,Qing Dong,Wootaek Lım,Mehdi Saligane,Yejoong Kim,Seokhyeon Jeong,Jongyup Lim,Makoto Yasuda	38
12	Recryptor: A Reconfigurable Cryptographic Cortex-M0 Processor With In-Memory and Near-Memory Computing for IoT Security 2018 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·Yiqun Zhang,Li Xu,Qing Dong,Jingcheng Wang,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	88
13	A 0.3V VDDmin 4+2T SRAM for searching and in-memory computing using 55nm DDC technology 2017 ·Qing Dong,Supreet Jeloka,Mehdi Saligane,Yejoong Kim,(unknown),(unknown),Satoru Miyoshi,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	54
14	8.3 A 553F² 2-transistor amplifier-based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with 1.67% native instability 2017 ·Kaiyuan Yang,Qing Dong,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	93
15	A 4 + 2T SRAM for Searching and In-Memory Computing With 0.3-V $V_{\mathrm {DDmin}}$ 2017 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·Qing Dong,Supreet Jeloka,Mehdi Saligane,Yejoong Kim,(unknown),(unknown),Satoru Miyoshi,Makoto Yasuda,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	75
16	A Noise Reconfigurable All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop Using a Switched Capacitor-Based Frequency-Locked Loop and a Noise Detector 2017 ·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ·Taekwang Jang,Seokhyeon Jeong,Dongsuk Jeon,Kyojin Choo,Dennis Sylvester,David Blaauw	14
17	16.3 A 23Mb/s 23pJ/b fully synthesized true-random-number generator in 28nm and 65nm CMOS 2014 ·Kaiyuan Yang,David Fick,M. Henry,Yoonmyung Lee,David Blaauw,Dennis Sylvester	121
18	A sub-pW timer using gate leakage for ultra low-power sub-Hz monitoring systems 2007 ·Yu-Shiang Lin,Dennis Sylvester,David Blaauw	67
19	Concurrent sizing, Vdd and V/sub th/ assignment for low-power design 2004 ·Design, Automation, and Test in Europe ·Ashish Srivastava,Dennis Sylvester,David Blaauw	20
20	Proceedings of the 2003 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction 2003 ·Dennis Sylvester,Dirk Stroobandt,Lou Scheffer,Payman Zarkesh-Ha	3

About Dennis Sylvester

Dennis Sylvester is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 602 papers that have together received 19.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Low-power high-performance VLSI design (294 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (153 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (149 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hardware and Architecture (5.6k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (16.6k citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (3.0k citations). Dennis Sylvester has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Singapore. Frequent co-authors include David Blaauw, Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Kurt Keutzer, Bo Zhai, Yoonmyung Lee, David Blaauw, Kaiyuan Yang, Trevor Mudge and Inhee Lee. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and Journal of Power Sources.

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