Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the Research Fund of Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, and by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No.2020R1F1A1073315). The EDA tool was supported by the IC Design Education Center(IDEC), Korea.
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