Faculty Publications - Borivoje Nikolic

Books

• J. M. Rabaey, A. P. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall Electronics and VLSI Series, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2003. [abstract]
• J. M. Rabaey, A. P. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, 2 ed., Prentice Hall Electronics and VLSI Series, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, 2003. [abstract]

Book chapters or sections

• L. T. Wang, W. J. Poppe, L. Pang, A. R. Neureuther, E. Alon, and B. Nikolic, "Hypersensitive parameter-identifying ring oscillators for lithography process monitoring," in Design for Manufacturability Through Design-Process Integration II, V. K. Singh and M. L. Rieger, Eds., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6925, Bellingham, WA: SPIE -- Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2008, pp. 69250P-1-10.
• H. Liu, V. Dai, A. Zakhor, and B. Nikolic, "Reduced complexity compression algorithms for direct-write maskless lithography systems," in Emerging Lithographic Technologies X, M. J. Lercel, Ed., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6151, Bellingham, WA: SPIE -- Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2006, pp. 2B-1-14.

Articles in journals or magazines

• D. Stepanovic and B. Nikolic, "A 2.8 GS/s 44.6 mW Time-Interleaved ADC Achieving 50.9 dB SNDR and 3 dB Effective Resolution Bandwidth of 1.5 GHz in 65 nm CMOS," Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 971-982, April 2013.
• S. O. Toh, Z. Guo, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "Characterization of Dynamic SRAM Stability in 45 nm CMOS," Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 2702-2712, Nov. 2011.
• Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, M. Wainwright, and B. Nikolic, "An Efficient 10GBASE-T Ethernet LDPC Decoder Design With Low Error Floors," Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 843-855, April 2010.
• Z. Guo, A. Carlson, L. Pang, K. Duong, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "Large-Scale SRAM Variability Characterization in 45 nm CMOS," Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 3174-3192, Nov. 2009.
• B. Nikolic, "Design in the power-limited scaling regime (Invited Paper)," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 71-83, Jan. 2008.
• D. Markovic, B. Nikolic, and R. W. Brodersen, "Power and area minimization for multidimensional signal processing," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 922-934, April 2007.
• H. Liu, V. Dai, A. Zakhor, and B. Nikolic, "Reduced complexity compression algorithms for direct-write maskless lithography systems," SPIE J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 13007-1-12, Jan. 2007.
• J. M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A. Niknejad, B. Nikolic, and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Embedding mixed-signal design in systems-on-chip (Invited Paper)," Proc. IEEE, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1070-1088, June 2006.
• R. Zlatanovici and B. Nikolic, "Power-performance optimiztion for custom digital circuits," J. Low Power Electronics, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 113-120, April 2006.
• Y. Chiu, P. R. Gray, and B. Nikolic, "A 14-b 12-MS/s CMOS pipeline ADC with over 100-dB SFDR," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 2139-2151, Dec. 2004.
• D. Markovic, V. Stojanovic, B. Nikolic, M. A. Horowitz, and R. W. Brodersen, "Methods for true energy-performance optimization," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1282-1293, Aug. 2004.
• Y. Shimazaki, R. Zlatanovici, and B. Nikolic, "A shared-well dual-supply-voltage 64-bit ALU," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 494-500, March 2004.
• E. Yeo, B. Nikolic, and V. Anantharam, "Iterative decoder architectures," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 132-140, Aug. 2003.
• E. Yeo, P. Pakzad, B. Nikolic, and V. Anantharam, "VLSI architectures for iterative decoders in magnetic recording channels," IEEE Trans. Magnetics, vol. 37, no. 2, pt. 1, pp. 748-755, March 2001.

Articles in conference proceedings

• H. Liu, B. Richards, A. Zakhor, and B. Nikolic, "Hardware Implementation of Block GC3 Lossless Compression Algorithm for Direct-Write Lithography Systems," in Proc. of SPIE Alternative Lithographic Technologies II, Vol. 7637, SPIE, 2010.
• A. Carlson, Z. Guo, L. T. Pang, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "Compensation of systematic variations through optimal biasing of SRAM wordlines," in Proc. 2008 Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC '08), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008.
• P. Lee, L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, B. Nikolic, and M. Wainwright, "Error floors in LDPC codes: Fast simulation, bounds and hardware emulation," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 444-448.
• Z. Guo, A. Carlson, L. Pang, K. Duong, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "Large-scale read/write margin measurement in 45nm CMOS SRAM arrays," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Symp. on VLSI Circuits, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 42-43.
• B. Nikolic, "Power-limited design (Invited Paper)," in Proc. 14th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 927-930.
• B. Nikolic, "Towards efficient spectrum sharing (Invited Talk)," in Proc. 6th IEEE/Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop on System-on-Chip (DCAS 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 6 pg.
• Z. Zhang, R. Winoto, A. Bahai, and B. Nikolic, "Peak-to-average power ratio reduction in an FDM broadcast system," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS '07), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 25-30.
• R. Marculescu, B. Nikolic, and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, ""Fresh air": The Emerging Landscape of Design for Networked Embedded Systems (Session Abstract)," in Proc. 5th IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2007), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 124-124.
• D. Markovic, C. Chang, B. Richards, H. So, B. Nikolic, and R. W. Brodersen, "ASIC design and verification in an FPGA environment," in Proc. 29th IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 737-740.
• L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, M. Wainwright, V. Anantharam, and B. Nikolic, "Evaluation of the low frame error rate performance of LDPC codes using importance sampling," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW '07), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 202-207.
• Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, M. Wainwright, V. Anantharam, and B. Nikolic, "Quantization effects in low-density parity-check decoders," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC '07), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 6231-6237.
• L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, M. Wainwright, and B. Nikolic, "Analysis of absorbing sets for array-based LDPC codes," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '07), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 6261-6268.
• D. Fang, R. Roberts, and B. Nikolic, "A 6-b DAC and analog DRAM for a maskless lithography interface in 90nm CMOS," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conf. (A-SSCC '06), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 423-426.
• Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, B. Nikolic, V. Anantharam, and M. Wainwright, "Investigation of error floors of structured low-density parity-check codes by hardware emulation," in Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM '06), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 1-6.
• A. Parsons, D. Backer, C. Chang, D. Chapman, H. Chen, P. Crescini, C. de Jesus, C. Dick, P. Droz, D. MacMahon, K. Meder, J. Mock, V. Nagpal, B. Nikolic, A. Parsa, B. Richards, A. Siemion, J. Wawrzynek, D. Werthimer, and M. Wright, "PetaOp/Second FPGA signal processing for SETI and radio astronomy (Invited Paper)," in Conference Record for the 40th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC 2006), M. B. Matthews, Ed., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 2031-2035.
• F. Sheikh, M. Ler, R. Zlatanovici, D. Markovic, and B. Nikolic, "Power-performance optimal DSP architectures and ASIC implementation (Invited Paper)," in Conference Record for the 40th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC 2006), M. B. Matthews, Ed., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 1480-1485.
• A. Carlson, Z. Guo, S. Balasubramanian, L. T. Pang, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "FinFET SRAM with enhanced read/write margins," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Intl. SOI Conf. (SOI '06), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 105-106.
• B. Nikolic and L. Pang, "Measurements and analysis of process variability in 90nm CMOS (Invited Paper)," in Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT-2006), T. Tang, G. Ru, and Y. Jiang, Eds., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 505-508.
• D. Markovic, B. Nikolic, and R. W. Brodersen, "Power and area efficient VLSI architectures for communication signal processing," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC '06), Vol. 7, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 3223-3228.
• D. Markovic, R. W. Brodersen, and B. Nikolic, "A 70GOPS, 34mW multi-carrier MIMO chip in 3.5mm2," in 2006 Symp. on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 158-159.
• L. Pang and B. Nikolic, "Impact of layout on 90nm CMOS process parameter fluctuations," in 2006 Symp. on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 69-70.
• S. D. Vamvakos, V. Stojanovic, J. L. Zerbe, C. W. Werner, D. Draper, and B. Nikolic, "PLL on-chip jitter measurement: Analysis and design," in 2006 Symp. on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 73-74.
• C. W. Tsang, Y. Chiu, and B. Nikolic, "A 1.2V, 10.8mW, 500kHz sigma-delta modulator with 84dB SNDR and 96dB SFDR," in 2006 Symp. on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 162-163.
• S. Kao, R. Zlatanovici, and B. Nikolic, "A 240ps 64b carry-lookahead adder in 90nm CMOS," in 2006 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC '06). Digest of Technical Papers, L. C. Fujino, Ed., Vol. 49, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 1735-1744.
• Z. Guo, S. Balasubramanian, R. Zlatanovici, T. King Liu, and B. Nikolic, "FinFET-based SRAM design," in Proc. ISLPED '05, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2005, pp. 2-7.
• B. Nikolic, B. Wild, V. Dai, Y. A. Shroff, B. Warlick, A. Zakhor, and W. G. Oldham, "Layout decompression chip for maskless lithography," in Proc. SPIE: Emerging Lithographic Technologies VIII, R. S. Mackay, Ed., Vol. 5374, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2004, pp. 1092-1099.
• E. Yeo, P. Pakzad, B. Nikolic, and V. Anantharam, "High throughput low-density parity-check decoder architectures," in Proc. 2001 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (GLOBECOM '01), Vol. 5, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2001, pp. 3019-3024.

Patents

• M. M. T. Leung, L. K. C. Fu, B. Nikolic, and J. K. S. Chiu, "Simplified branch metric and method," U.S. Patent 6,704,903. March 2004.
• W. Jia and B. Nikolic, "Sense amplifier-based flip-flop with asynchronous set and reset," U.S. Patent 6,633,188. Oct. 2003.
• B. Nikolic, L. Fu, M. Leung, V. G. Oklobdzija, and R. Yamasaki, "Reduced-complexity sequence detection," U.S. Patent 6,553,541. April 2003.
• B. Nikolic and W. Jia, "Sense amplifier based flip-flop," U.S. Patent 6,107,853. Aug. 2000.
• B. Nikolic and M. Leung, "Sliding block (rate 8/9) trellis code for magnetic recording," U.S. Patent 6,081,210. June 2000.

Ph.D. Theses

• C. Shin, "Advanced MOSFET Designs and Implications for SRAM Scaling," T. King Liu, B. Nikolic, and E. Haller, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-50, May 2012. [abstract]
• J. Park and B. Nikolic, "Power-efficient Design of Multi-Gpbs Wireless Baseband," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2011-135, Dec. 2011. [abstract]
• R. Winoto and B. Nikolic, "Downconverting Sigma-Delta A/D Converter for a Reconfigurable RF Receiver," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2009-81, May 2009. [abstract]

Masters Reports

• B. Zimmer, B. Nikolic, and K. Asanović, "Resilient Design Methodology for Energy-Efficient SRAM," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2013-37, May 2013. [abstract]
• M. Weiner and B. Nikolic, "A High-Throughput, Flexible LDPC Decoder for Multi-Gb/s Wireless Personal Area Networks," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2010-177, Dec. 2010. [abstract]