Louis Alarcón Louis P. Alarcón's Webpage

I'm a graduate student pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm currently working on integrated circuits for ultra-low energy computation at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and my advisor is Professor Jan M. Rabaey. Before coming to Berkeley, I received my BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Research: Sense Amplifier-based Pass Transistor Logic (SAPTL)

Advisor: Professor Jan M. Rabaey

The SAPTL is an alternative circuit topology that allows the reduction of energy per operation via voltage scaling even in the presence of leakage. It allows aggressive threshold voltage scaling since the Vth of the stack transistors can now be decoupled with its subthreshold leakage, enabling the use of very low threshold voltages and thus allowing the stack transistors to remain in the superthreshold region. In addition, the differential signaling used by the SAPTL lends itself to synchronous and asynchronous operation and the inherent layout regularity points to the SAPTL as a very good candidate for  robust ultra low energy operation.

Publications

Contact Information

Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
2108 Allston Way Suite 200, Berkeley, CA
Phone: +1 510 666 3142
Email: lalarcon at eecs dot berkeley dot edu



Last updated: June 28, 2009