Publications

Ph.D. Dissertations
[PhD1]R. Dorrance, "An Energy-Efficient Sparse-BLAS Coprocessor using STT-MRAM," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, September 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
Master's Theses
[MS1]R. Dorrance, "Modeling and Design of STT-MRAMs," Master's thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
Journal Papers
[J9]R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, H. Wang, R. Liu, B. R. Carlton, "An Energy-Efficient Bayesian Neural Network Accelerator With CiM and a Time-Interleaved Hadamard Digital GRNG Using 22-nm FinFET," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 2826–2838, October 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J8]R. Liu, A. B. K. T., R. Dorrance, T. F. Cox, R. Jain, T. Acikalin, Z. Zhou, T. Yang, J. Escober-Pelaez, S. Yamada, K. P. Foust, B. R. Carlton, "A 2-Gb/s UWB Transceiver for Short-Range Reconfigurable FDD Wireless Networks," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 1285–1298, May 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J7]H. Wang, R. Liu, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, D. Lake, B. Carlton, "A Charge Domain SRAM Compute-in-Memory Macro With C-2C Ladder-Based 8-Bit MAC Unit in 22-nm FinFET Process for Edge Inference," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 1037–1050, April 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J6]D. Dasalukunte, R. Dorrance, L. Liang, L. Lu, "A Vector Processor for Mean Field Bayesian Channel Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI), vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1348–1359, July 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J5]R. Liu, A. Beevi K.T., R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, V. Kristem, M. A. Santana Lopez, A. W. Min, S. Azizi, M. Park, B. R. Carlton, "An 802.11ba-Based Wake-Up Radio Receiver With Wi-Fi Transceiver Integration," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1151–1164, May 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J4]E. Alpman, A. Khairi, R. Dorrance, M. Park, V. S. Somayazulu, J. R. Foerster, A. Ravi, J. Paramesh, S. Pellerano, "802.11g/n Compliant Fully Integrated Wake-Up Receiver With −72-dBm Sensitivity in 14-nm FinFET CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1411–1422, May 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J3]H. Lee, J. G. Alzate, R. Dorrance, X. Q. M. Cai, P. K. Amiri, K. L. Wang, "Design of a Fast and Low-Power Sense Amplifier and Writing Circuit for High-Speed MRAM," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (TMAG), vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 1–7, May 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J2]R. Dorrance, J. G. Alzate, S. S. Cherepov, P. Upadhyaya, I. Krivorotov, J. A. Katine, J. Langer, K. L. Wang, P. K. Amiri, D. Marković, "Diode-MTJ Crossbar Memory Cell Using Voltage-Induced Unipolar Switching for High-Density MRAM," IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL), vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 753–755, June 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[J1]R. Dorrance, F. Ren, Y. Toriyama, A. A. Hafez, C. K. Yang, D. Marković, "Scalability and Design-Space Analysis of a 1T-1MTJ Memory Cell for STT-RAMs," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 878–887, April 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
Conference Papers
[C20]H. Wang, R. Liu, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, N. Gowda, B. Carlton, "A PVT Robust 8-Bit Signed Analog Compute-In-Memory Accelerator with Integrated Activation Functions for AI Applications," in 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), pp. 1–2, June 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C19]R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, H. Wang, R. Liu, B. Carlton, "Energy Efficient BNN Accelerator using CiM and a Time-Interleaved Hadamard Digital GRNG in 22nm CMOS," in 2022 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), pp. 2–4, November 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C18]R. Camacho, G. Fabila, L. Gonzalez, J. Felip, M. Subedar, P. Mendoza, J. Romero, A. Pedroza, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, "An Accelerator for Emerging AI Workloads at the Edge,” in Design and Test Technology Conference ," in Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC'22), pp. 1–4, September 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C17]H. Wang, R. Liu, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, B. Carlton, "C-2C Ladder Based 8-bit Charge Domain Compute-in-Memory Achieving 32.2 TOPS/W Efficiency for Edge Artificial Intelligence," in Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC'22), pp. 1–4, September 2022. (Best Paper Award) [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C16]H. Wang, R. Liu, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, X. Liu, D. Lake, B. Carlton, M. Wu, "A 32.2 TOPS/W SRAM Compute-in-Memory Macro Employing a Linear 8-bit C-2C Ladder for Charge Domain Computation in 22nm for Edge Inference," in 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), pp. 36–37, June 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C15]R. Liu, B. K. T. Asma, R. Dorrance, T. Cox, R. Jain, T. Acikalin, Z. Zhou, T. Yang, J. Escobar-Pelaez, S. Yamada, K. Foust, B. Carlton, "A 2Gb/s 9.9pJ/b Sub-10GHz Wireless Transceiver for Reconfigurable FDD Wireless Networks and Short-Range Multicast Applications," in Proceedings of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC'22), pp. 263–266, June 2022. (Best Industry Paper Award) [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C14]J. Chen, W. Wong, B. Hamdaoui, A. Elmaghbub, K. Sivanesan, R. Dorrance, L. L. Yang, "An Analysis of Complex-Valued CNNs for RF Data-Driven Wireless Device Classification," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), pp. 4318–4323, May 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C13]R. Dorrance, A. Belogolovy, H. Wang, X. Zhang, "A Digital Root Based Modular Reduction Technique for Power Efficient, Fault Tolerance in FPGAs," in 2020 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), pp. 341–346, September 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C12]R. Dorrance, R. Liu, K. Asma Beevi, D. Dasalukunte, M. A. S. Lopez, V. Kristem, S. Azizi, B. Carlton, "An Ultra-Low Power, Fully Integrated Wake-Up Receiver and Digital Baseband with All-Digital Impairment Correction and -92.4dBm Sensitivity for 802.11ba," in Proceedings of the 2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI'19), pp. C80–C81, June 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C11]R. Liu, A. B. K. T., R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, M. A. Santana Lopez, V. Kristem, S. Azizi, M. Park, B. R. Carlton, "An 802.11ba 495μW -92.6dBm-Sensitivity Blocker-Tolerant Wake-up Radio Receiver Fully Integrated with Wi-Fi Transceiver," in Proceedings of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC'19), pp. 255–258, June 2019. (Best Industry Paper Award) [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C10]R. Dorrance, A. Belogolovy, H. Wang, X. Zhang, "Error Tolerant Architectures for Power Efficient Computing and Communications," in Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC'19), pp. 1–8, May 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C9]T. Karnik, D. Kurian, P. Aseron, R. Dorrance, E. Alpman, A. Nicoara, R. Popov, L. Azarenkov, M. Moiseev, L. Zhao, S. Ghosh, R. Misoczki, A. Gupta, M. Akhila, S. Muthukumar, S. Bhandari, Y. Satish, K. Jain, R. Flory, C. Kanthapanit, E. Quijano, B. Jackson, H. Luo, S. Kim, V. Vaidya, A. Elsherbini, R. Liu, F. Sheikh, O. Tickoo, I. Klotchkov, M. Sastry, S. Sun, M. Bhartiya, A. Srinivasan, Y. Hoskote, H. Wang, V. De, "A cm-scale self-powered intelligent and secure IoT edge mote featuring an ultra-low-power SoC in 14nm tri-gate CMOS," in Proceedings of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC'18), pp. 46–48, February 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C8]R. Dorrance and D. Marković, "A 190GFLOPS/W DSP for Energy-Efficient Sparse-BLAS in Embedded IoT," in Proceedings of the 2016 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI'16), pp. 182–183, June 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C7]R. Dorrance, F. Ren, and D. Marković, "A Scalable Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMxV) Kernel For Sparse-BLAS on FPGAs," in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'14), pp. 161–170, February 2014. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C6]F. Ren, R. Dorrance, W. Xu, D. Marković, "A Single-Precision Compressive Sensing Signal Reconstruction Engine on FPGAs," in 2013 23rd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'13), pp. 1–4, September 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C5]R. Dorrance, J. G. Alzate, S. S. Cherepov, P. Upadhyaya, K. L. Wang, P. K. Amiri, D. Marković, "Voltage-controlled MRAM for 3D Stackable Non-Volatile Memories," in Proceedings of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference Student Research Preview (ISSCC'13), February 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C4]J. G. Alzate, P. K. Amiri, P. Upadhyaya, S. S. Cherepov, J. Zhu, M. Lewis, R. Dorrance, J. A. Katine, J. Langer, K. Galatsis, D. Marković, I. Krivorotov, K. L. Wang, "Voltage-Induced Switching of Nanoscale Magnetic Tunnel Junctions," in Proceedings of the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM'12), pp. 29.5.1–29.5.4, December 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C3]F. Ren, H. Park, R. Dorrance, Y. Toriyama, C. K. Yang, D. Marković, "A Body-Voltage-Sensing-Based Short Pulse Reading Circuit for Spin-Torque Transfer RAMs (STT-RAMs)," in Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'12), pp. 275–282, March 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C2]H. Park, R. Dorrance, A. A. Hafez, F. Ren, D. Marković, C. K. Yang, "Analysis of STT-RAM Cell Design with Multiple MJTs Per Access," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH'11), pp. 53–58, June 2011. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[C1]R. Dorrance, F. Ren, Y. Toriyama, A. A. Hafez, C. K. Yang, D. Marković, "Scalability and Design-Space Analysis of a 1T-1MTJ Memory Cell," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH'11), pp. 32–36, June 2011. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
Patents
[P12]H. Wang, R. Dorrance, R. Liu, D. Dasalukunte, "Techniques for analog multibit data representation for in-memory computing," US Patent, US 12,154,638, November 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P11]D. Dasalukunte, R. Dorrance, and D. I. G. Aguirre, "Device, method and system to selectively provide a mode of random number generation," US Patent, US 12,141,547, November 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P10]H. Wang, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, D. I. G. Aguirre, "Bayesian neural network and methods and apparatus to operate the same," US Patent, US 12,131,245, October 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P9]S. Krishnamurthy, L. Lu, N. M. Gowda, L. Liang, R. Dorrance, D. Dasalukunte, A. Merwaday, "Communication devices and methods based on markov-chain monte-carlo (MCMC) sampling," US Patent, US 12,126,440, October 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P8]R. Dorrance, I. Alvarez, D. Dasalukunte, S. M. I. Alam, S. Sharma, K. Sivanesan, D. I. G. Aguirre, R. Krishnan, S. Jha, "Devices and methods for updating maps in autonomous driving systems in bandwidth constrained networks," US Patent, US 11,889,396, January 2024. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P7]D. Dasalukunte, R. Dorrance, I. Alvarez, M. S. Elli, S. Sharma, S. Jha, K. Sivanesan, S. M. I. Alam, "Systems, methods, and devices for driving control," US Patent, US 11,597,393, March 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P6]R. Dorrance, I. Alvarez, D. Dasalukunte, S. M. I. Alam, S. Sharma, K. Sivanesan, D. I. G. Aguirre, R. Krishnan, S. Jha, "Devices and methods for updating maps in autonomous driving systems in bandwidth constrained networks," US Patent, US 11,375,352, June 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P5]R. Dorrance and F. Sheikh, "Spintronic devices, duplexers, transceivers and telecommunication devices," US Patent, US 11,205,749, December 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P4]R. Dorrance, A. Belogolovy, X. Zhang, H. Wang, "Error-tolerant architecture for power-efficient computing," US Patent, US 10,969,431, April 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P3]R. Dorrance, M. Park, A. W. Min, F. Sheikh, "Wake up radio device, circuit configuration, and method," US Patent, US 9,967,820, May 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P2]P. K. Amiri, R. Dorrance, D. Marković, K. L. Wang, "Read-Disturbance-Free Nonvolatile Content Addressable Memory (CAM)," US Patent, US 9,047,950, June 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]
[P1]P. K. Amiri, R. Dorrance, D. Marković, K. L. Wang, "Nonvolatile Magneto-Electric Random Access Memory Circuit with Burst Writing and Back-to-Back Reads," US Patent, US 8,988,923, March 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [google patents]

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