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Hauptverfasser: Gopal, Ashwin, Esposito, Massimiliano, Meibohm, Jan
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00188
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author Gopal, Ashwin
Esposito, Massimiliano
Meibohm, Jan
author_facet Gopal, Ashwin
Esposito, Massimiliano
Meibohm, Jan
contents We analyze a thermodynamically consistent model of CMOS-based ring oscillators near the onset of coherent voltage oscillations. For driving voltages close to the critical value, we derive the normal form of the Hopf bifurcation that underlies the oscillation transition in the thermodynamic limit. Using this normal form, we determine the phase and amplitude dynamics, and demonstrate that entropy dissipation decreases in the oscillating state for ring oscillators with more than three inverters. These findings culminate in a stability-dissipation relation, which links the observed decrease in dissipation to an increase in the local stability of the oscillating state. Next, we characterize finite-size fluctuations of the amplitude and phase near the critical voltage, using a stochastic version of the normal form. We demonstrate that close to the transition, finite-size fluctuations remain important at arbitrary system size, introducing oscillations even below the critical voltage. We further show that these noise-induced oscillations have an anomalously short decoherence time that scales sub-linearly with the system-size, in contrast to the behavior far from criticality.
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spellingShingle Dissipation and fluctuations of CMOS ring oscillators close to criticality
Gopal, Ashwin
Esposito, Massimiliano
Meibohm, Jan
Statistical Mechanics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
We analyze a thermodynamically consistent model of CMOS-based ring oscillators near the onset of coherent voltage oscillations. For driving voltages close to the critical value, we derive the normal form of the Hopf bifurcation that underlies the oscillation transition in the thermodynamic limit. Using this normal form, we determine the phase and amplitude dynamics, and demonstrate that entropy dissipation decreases in the oscillating state for ring oscillators with more than three inverters. These findings culminate in a stability-dissipation relation, which links the observed decrease in dissipation to an increase in the local stability of the oscillating state. Next, we characterize finite-size fluctuations of the amplitude and phase near the critical voltage, using a stochastic version of the normal form. We demonstrate that close to the transition, finite-size fluctuations remain important at arbitrary system size, introducing oscillations even below the critical voltage. We further show that these noise-induced oscillations have an anomalously short decoherence time that scales sub-linearly with the system-size, in contrast to the behavior far from criticality.
title Dissipation and fluctuations of CMOS ring oscillators close to criticality
topic Statistical Mechanics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00188