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James Myers

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James leads the devices and circuits team in Arm Research and is an expert in low power design with 20+ patents and 15+ chip tapeouts. James joined Arm in 2007, where he was responsible for developing RTL-GDS2 reference flows for the various ARM soft processor cores. After a six month secondment to R&D to learn about state retention power gating for a Cortex-M reference flow, James joined R&D full time in early 2009. His main research interest is in deployable core and chip level power reduction, to which end he has worked on sub-threshold design, state retention power gating and margin reduction efforts. James holds an MEng from Imperial College, London.

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Right to Repair: The First Step Towards Tackling E-Waste

25th November 2021

This Black Friday, Distinguished Engineer James Myers considers the impact Right to Repair could have on e-waste and why we need to swap ‘take-make-waste’ production models for more sustainable alternatives. This article originally appeared on Arm Blueprint. As retailers brace themselves for Black Friday – possibly the busiest day in…

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Project Triffid: Billions of Batteryless Arm Devices?

5th November 2020

The greatest challenge the Internet of things faces is how those ‘things’ will be powered, says Arm Distinguished Engineer James Myers. This article originally appeared on Arm Blueprint. Later this month, Arm will celebrate its 30 year anniversary and the engineering milestones that have resulted in more than 180 billion…

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Paper Accepted in IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits

13th October 2018

A paper describing a novel ultra-low power single-phase clocked flip-flop has been accepted by the prestigious IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. The paper describes a new 18-transistor single-phase clocked flip-flop (18TSPC). The novel topology is fully-static and contention-free, and has the lowest number of transistors reported for its type.…

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Flip-flop Patent Granted

29th May 2018

A patent for a new single-phase clocked flip-flop, constructed from as few as 18 transistors, has been granted. The device was initially created by PhD student Yunpeng Cai during his studies at ECS and developed into a robust design while on his internship at Arm Research, Cambridge. Initial silicon results…

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Paper Accepted in IEEE TCAS Special Issue on IoT

31st July 2017

Research work from the “Energy Harvesting and Integrated Power Conversion for Micro-Scale Sensor Nodes” project was recently accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, in a special issue on the Internet of Things (IoT) “From Sensing to Sensemaking”. The highly impactful special issue has topics spanning…

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Continuing Success for ARM-ECS Research Centre

21st March 2017

The ARM-ECS Research Centre was founded in 2008, and is a collaboration between researchers in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and ARM Research, Cambridge. On the back of winning the NMI University Research Group of the Year award at the end of 2015,…

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Power efficient electronics research innovation is featured in the ACM TechNews

22nd February 2017

Research from the ARM-ECS Research Centre, on power-efficient electronics, has been accepted for publication at the prestigious ISSCC 2017 conference and featured in ACM Tech News. Researchers from the ARM-ECS Centre have presented a paper at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, the world’s foremost forum…

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Paper on Supply-Independent Oscillator Design Accepted at ISSCC 2017

26th October 2016

An ARM-ECS paper describing a cutting-edge design for supply-independent oscillators has been accepted for presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference 2017. An ARM-ECS paper describing a low-power design for supply-independent relaxation oscillator has been accepted for presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference 2017. This paper, entitled…

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Related Projects

Circular and Sustainable Electronics
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Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities
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Energy Harvesting and Integrated Power Conversion for Micro-Scale Sensor Nodes
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Leakage Power Minimisation for Embedded Processors
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Related Technologies

Pipistrelle-4

Pipistrelle-4, taped-out at the end of May 2017, is the latest in a series of low-energy sensor-system chips. The chip includes circuit/system ideas from multiple PhD research students and industry, focusing on an energy and performance optimised SRAM bitcell, low-area overhead energy-efficient flip-flops and standard-cells. The chip was taped-out during Yunpeng Cai’s internship at Arm Cambridge, and includes circuits to validate his novel flip-flop design which has now been patented. The prototype chips were received at the end of September 2017, and tested successfully.

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